UID:
edocfu_9958352443502883
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812205060
Series Statement:
Divinations
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Note on transliteration --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. A Late Antique Legacy of Legal Pluralism --
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Chapter 2. Islam’s Judicial Bazaar --
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Introduction --
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Christian and Jewish Communal Organizations after the Islamic Conquest --
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Ecclesiastical and Rabbanite Leaders and Legal Pluralism in the Early Islamic Period --
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Chapter 3. Eastern Christian Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period --
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Chapter 4. Rabbanite Judicial Authorities in the Late Geonic Period --
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Chapter 5. Christian Recourse to Nonecclesiastical Judicial Institutions --
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Chapter 6. Jewish Recourse to Islamic Courts --
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Conclusion --
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Abbreviations --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812205060
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205060
