Law and religious minorities in medieval societies : between theory and praxis = De la teoría legal a la práctica en el derecho de las minoría religiosas en la Edad Media / edited by Ana Echevarria, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, John Tolan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Echevarria, Ana, editor.

Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro, editor.

Tolan, John Victor, 1959- editor.

Universidad de Córdoba (Spain). Cordoba Near Eastern Research Unit, organizer.

Series:

Religion and law in medieval Christian and Muslim societies ; 9.

Religion and law in medieval Christian and Muslim societies ; 9

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Religious minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Religious minorities.

Religious minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Islamic Empire--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Religious minorities--Europe--Social conditions--Congresses.

Religious minorities--Islamic Empire--Social conditions--Congresses.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492--Congresses.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Other Title:

Law and religious minorities in medieval societies

De la teoría legal a la práctica en el derecho de las minoría religiosas en la Edad Media

Place of Publication:

Turnhout Brepols 2016

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Language Note:

Articles variously in English and Spanish.

Summary:

This volume shows through the use of legal sources that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful; and at the same time shows how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmīs, inferior but protected non-Muslim communities (in particular Jews and Christians) and Roman Canon law decreed a similar status for Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe. Yet the theoretical hierarchies between faithful and infidel were constantly brought into question in the daily interactions between men and women of different faiths in streets, markets, bath-houses, law courts, etc. The twelve essays in this volume explore these tensions and attempts to resolve them. These contributions show that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful—and at the same time how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. These essays explore also the possibilities and the limits of the use of legal sources for the social historian.

Contents:

Defending Jewish Judicial Autonomy in the Islamic Middle Ages / Mark R. Cohen

Melkites and Their Law : Between Autonomy and Assimilation / Johannes Pahlitzsch

Cadies, alfaquies y la transmision de la shari'a en epoca mudejar / Ana Echevarria

Straddling the Bounds : Jews in the Legal World of Islam / David J. Wasserstein

Criterio de los juristas malikies sobre los alimentos y las bebidas de los dimmies : entre la teoria y la practica / Maiía Arcas Campoy

Twenty-five hundred knidia of wine, and two boats to transport the wine to Fustat : an Insight into Wine Consumption and Use Amongst the dhimmis and wider Communities in Umayyad Egypt / Myriam Wissa

In the Eyes of Others : Namus and shariah in Christian Arab Authors : Some Preliminary Details for a Typological Study / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

Vapores de la sospecha : El bano publico entre el mundo andalusi y la Castilla medieval (siglos X-XIII) / Marisa Bueno

Swearing by the Mujaljala : A fatws on dhimmi Oaths in the Islamic West / Camilla Adang

Forum Shopping in al-Andalus (II) : Discussing Coran V, 42 and 49 (Ibn Hazm, Ibn Rushd al-Jadd, Abu Bakr Ibn al-Arabi and al-Qurtubi) / Delfina Serrano

Religious Minorities' Identity and Application of the Law : A First Approximation to the Lands of Military Orders in Castile / Clara Almagro Vidal

Interaccion en el espacio de dos sociedades diferentes : concordia establecida entre el bachiller Hernando Alonso y la aljama de moros de Talavera / Yolanda Moreno Moreno

What do Legal Sources Tell Us about Social Practice? : Possibilities and Limits / John Tolan.

Notes:

"This volume is based on a conference organized by the Cordoba Near Eastern Research unit (CNERu), universidad de Córdoba; the project 'Los mudéjares y moriscos de Castilla (siglos XI–XvI)' (uNED/MINECO hAR2011‒24915), and the European Research Council Project RELMIN. The sessions took place on the 28th to 30th April 2014 at the Casa Árabe (Córdoba)"--Introduction, page 10.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Brepols, viewed 14 March 2024).

ISBN:

9782503566979

2503566979

OCLC:

1018165740

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access