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A common justice : the legal allegiances of Christians and Jews under early Islam / Uriel I. Simonsohn.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simonsohn, Uriel I., 1971-
- Series:
- Divinations
- Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legal polycentricity--Middle East--History.
- Legal polycentricity.
- Conflict of laws--Middle East--History.
- Conflict of laws.
- Conflict of laws--Jurisdiction--Middle East--History.
- Conflict of laws (Islamic law)--Middle East--History.
- Conflict of laws (Islamic law).
- Conflict of laws (Canon law).
- Conflict of laws (Jewish law).
- History.
- Conflict of laws--Jurisdiction.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- This book examines the legislative response of Christian and Jewish religious elites in the Islamic world to the perceived problem of their co-religionists taking their legal cases outside their communities to extra-confessional judicial institutions, mainly Islamic courts, in the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region bounded by Mesopotamia and North Africa. The analysis by Simonsohn (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) explores the way that the fluidity of legal behavior that existed across communal boundaries threatened the social position of traditional elites and therefore was resisted by these elites, who sought to draw their co-religionists back into the fold of their communal judicial institutions. The reasons that Jews and Christians went to Islamic courts and the responses of their respective elites are examined in order to shed light on shifting structures of authority and autonomy in the broad context of Christian and Jewish public life. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Part1 Legal Pluralism In Late Antiquity Anasd Classical Islam Survey And Analysis 23
- Chapter 1 A Late Antique Legacy of Legal Pluralism 25
- Chapter 2 Islam's Judicial Bazaar 63
- Part II The Judical Choices Of Christians And Jews In The Early Islamic Period A Comparative Analysis 91
- Chapter 3 Eastern Christian Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period 99
- Chapter 4 Rabbanite Judicial Authorities in the Late Geonic Period 120
- Chapter 5 Christian Recourse to Nonecclesiastical Judicial Institutions 147
- Chapter 6 Jewish Recourse to Islamic Courts 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812243499
- 0812243498
- OCLC:
- 710045029
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