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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787449103321

Autore

Verskin Alan

Titolo

Islamic law and the crisis of the Reconquista : the debate on the status of Muslim communities in Christendom / / Alan Verskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28453-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages)

Collana

Studies in Islamic Law and Society, , 1384-1130 ; ; Volume 39

Disciplina

297.1/401813

Soggetti

Islamic law - History

Malikites - Spain - History

Muslims - Non-Islamic countries

Muslims - Legal status, laws, etc

Spain History 711-1516

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Concept of Hijra (Migration) in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib -- 2 The Status of the Mudéjar Religious Leadership According to Mālikī Law -- 3 Life, Family and Property in the Abode of War -- 4 European Rule in the 19th-Century Maghrib and the Reception of Reconquista-Era Law -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such rule became the subject of extensive intellectual investigation. In Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista , Alan Verskin examines the way in which the Iberian school of Mālikī law developed in response to the political, theological, and practical difficulties posed by the Reconquista. He shows how religious concepts, even those very central to the Islamic religious experience, could be rethought and reinterpreted in order to respond to the changing needs of Muslims.