The Legal Status of DIMMI-S in the Islamic West: (Second/Eighth-Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries: 01 (Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 2503548547 ISBN 13: 9782503548548

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

The studies brought together in this volume provide an important contribution to the history of dimmi-s in the medieval dar al-islam, and more generally to the legal history of religious minorities in medieval societies. The central question addressed is the legal status accorded to dimmi-s (Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain).The scholars whose work is brought together in these pages have dealt with a rich and complex variety of legal sources. Many of the texts are from the Maliki legal tradition; they include fiqh, fatwa-s, hisba manuals. These texts function as the building blocks of the legal framework in which jurists and rulers of Maghrebi and Peninsular societies worked.The very richness and complexity of these texts, as well as the variety of responses that they solicited, refute the textbook idea of a monolithic dimmi system, supposedly based on the Pact of 'Umar, applied throughout the Muslim world.In fact when one looks closely at the early legal texts or chronicles from both the Mashreq and the Maghreb, there is little evidence for a standard, uniform dimmi system, but rather a wide variety of local adaptations.The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations.

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About the Author:

Maribel Fierro is a Research Professor at the Center of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid. Her previous publications include Al-Andalus: saberes e intercambios culturales (2001), Abd al-Rahman III, The First Cordoban Caliph (2005), Los almohades: problemas y perspectivas (as co-editor, 2005) and El cuerpo derrotado: como trataban musulmanes y cristianos a los enemigos vencidos (Peninsula Iberica, ss. VIII-XIII) (as co-editor, 2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 2503548547
• ISBN 13: 9782503548548
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Fierro Professor Maribel, Tolan Professor John V