Law and the moral system

• Main Author: Dresch, Paul
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Centre français d’archéologie et de sciences sociales 2016
• Subjects: droit coutumier; droit islamique; hijra; archive; justice islamique; souk; customary law; Islamic law; hijrah; suq; HIS026000; LAW000000; Law (General); HBJF1; L; Iceland
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/cefas/853

If a principle emerges from the Baraṭ documents it is that of personal protection. This is not a form of individualism, however, nor even of the endlessly disputed household-power apparent in for instance early Iceland. The condition of a tribesmanʼs ability to protect is its recognition by fellow tribesmen, and people are conceived of as implicated by nature in their fellowsʼ actions: families thus fall within sections, and sections within tribes, which is loosely expressed in a language of .