ABSTRACT
Whereas the Israeli shari‘a courts and the family courts both operate under the aegis of the Israeli legal system, the Jordanian and the Palestinian shari‘a courts belong to other state (or state-like, in the Palestinian case) legal systems. The parallel operation of several shari‘a courts in present-day Jerusalem—an Israeli, a Jordanian and two Palestinian courts—should therefore be regarded as a clear case of “strong” legal pluralism, even in the sense that John Griffiths ascribes to the term (see Griffiths 1986a).
