@inbook{c7eb22a845d24f328211548d83c5bb64,
title = "The Contribution of Early Islamic Rulers to Adjudication and Legislation: The Case of the Mazalim Tribunals ",
abstract = "There is an interesting discrepancy in the early Islamic empires between law making and the perception of law making. Although early Islamic rulers - the Rashidun (the first four caliphs that succeeded Muhamad, known as the Rightly Guided caliphs), the Umayyads and the early Abbasids - determined the rules and regulations in several areas of the law, their contributions went unmentioned in legal literature.",
author = "Nimrod Hurvitz",
year = "2013",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1163/9789004249516_008",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004245297",
series = "Rulers and Elites",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "133--156",
editor = "Duindam, {Jeroen } and Nimrod, {Hurvitz }",
booktitle = "Law and Empire",
address = "Netherlands",
}