caa a22 4500 388086769 CHVBK 20180307125231.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1356186300011524 doi S1356186300011524 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1356186300011524 Lindholm Charles Justice and Tyranny, Law and the State in the Middle East [Elektronische Daten] [Charles Lindholm] In his influential work, Max Weber argued that the Middle East was fatally hampered in the development of a modern civil society by the existence of arbitrary Qadi justice, based on the personalized decisions of a judiciary reliant only on case law for precedent and lacking any form of rational organization. This individualistic judicial structure (or lack of structure) allowed authoritarian regimes to subvert the courts for their own purposes, destroying the possibility of the development of an autonomous citizenry; meanwhile, in Europe the evolution of a rationally codified legal system acted as a check on governmental tyranny and provided a space for the evolution of independent civic organizations. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1999 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/3(1999-11), 375-388 1356-1863 9:3<375 1999 9 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300011524 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300011524 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lindholm Charles NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/3(1999-11), 375-388 1356-1863 9:3<375 1999 9 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge