Customary law, commonly referred to as (ʿUrfī [Urfi] ‎ Law), is a set of rules and procedures used by local arbitrators, for reconciliation and conflict resolution.  Urfi law is resorted to by local communities in mostly non-metropolitan areas where it is held that the judicial system is not an effective mechanism by which to arbitrate between conflicting parties. Urfi law has its deep origins in traditions, customs, and –of course- religion. We earlier described the reconciliation processes in Egypt in a project we carried out in 2008 in cooperation with ZIVIK, a German organization supporting civil conflict resolution. For more information visit the pages on conflict resolution in Egypt on the website of the Center for Arab-West Understanding.On 8, 9 and 10 July 2015 we visited with Matthew Anderson, a PhD student at Georgetown University on Muslim-Christian relations, this region to investigate tensions between Muslims and Christians in Kafr Darwish, a village in the Governorate of Beni Suef that is located on the border with the governorate of Minya. We met with Salafi arbitrator Ḥamdī ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ (Shaykh)  from al-Qufada, a village not far from Kafr Darwish, who provided us with a handwritten document specifying the rules of arbitration. Khālid H. Zakariyyā typed this handwritten document which was translated by Catherine Volkmann, a translation intern at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, from Arabic to English. This undated document on arbitration is based several meetings of arbitrators in districts in northern part of Minya Governorate, lastly on 1.12. 2014. We did not ask the sheikh for incidents/instances where the articles of this document were put into practice. @ Arab-West Report You may quote from this publication if proper attribution is used according to Creative Commons License 4.0 is given. A good rule of thumb is to use the acronym TASL, which stands for Title, Author, Source, License. In case of questions please write us at [email protected]