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A Common Justice : The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205060
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Common JusticeDDC classification:
  • 340.5
LOC classification:
  • K236 -- .S56 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- PART I. LEGAL PLURALISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND CLASSICAL ISLAM: SURVEY AND ANALYSIS -- Chapter 1. A Late Antique Legacy of Legal Pluralism -- Chapter 2. Islam's Judicial Bazaar -- PART II. THE JUDICIAL CHOICES OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS -- Chapter 3. Eastern Christian Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period -- Chapter 4. Rabbanite Judicial Authorities in the Late Geonic Period -- Chapter 5. Christian Recourse to Nonecclesiastical Judicial Institutions -- Chapter 6. Jewish Recourse to Islamic Courts -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, this study explores the multiplicity of judicial systems that coexisted under early Islam to reveal a complex array of social obligations that connected individuals across confessional boundaries.
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Cover -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- PART I. LEGAL PLURALISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND CLASSICAL ISLAM: SURVEY AND ANALYSIS -- Chapter 1. A Late Antique Legacy of Legal Pluralism -- Chapter 2. Islam's Judicial Bazaar -- PART II. THE JUDICIAL CHOICES OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS -- Chapter 3. Eastern Christian Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period -- Chapter 4. Rabbanite Judicial Authorities in the Late Geonic Period -- Chapter 5. Christian Recourse to Nonecclesiastical Judicial Institutions -- Chapter 6. Jewish Recourse to Islamic Courts -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, this study explores the multiplicity of judicial systems that coexisted under early Islam to reveal a complex array of social obligations that connected individuals across confessional boundaries.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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