Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th Centuries): 8 (Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2503565719 ISBN 13: 9782503565712

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely comparative perspective. The authors concentrate on a key aspect of this coexistence: the legal status attributed to Jews and Muslims in Christendom and to dhimm's in Islamic lands. To what extent are the rights of the minorities to reside in their communities distinct from, or similar, to those of the majority community? What role did the law play in the segregation of religious groups? In limiting, combating, or on the contrary justifying violence against them? What specific treatments and procedures in the courtroom were reserved for plaintiffs, defendants or witnesses belonging to religious minorities? Through these questions, and through the innovative comparative method applied to them, this book offers a fresh new synthesis to these questions and a spur to new research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503565719
• ISBN 13: 9782503565712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Berend Nora, Masset Youna, Mazur Jerzy, Nemo-Pekelman Capucine, Tolan John Victor