A common justice [[electronic resource] ] : the legal allegiances of Christians and Jews under early Islam / / Uriel I. Simonsohn
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| Autore: |
Simonsohn Uriel I. <1971->
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| Titolo: |
A common justice [[electronic resource] ] : the legal allegiances of Christians and Jews under early Islam / / Uriel I. Simonsohn
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 340.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Legal polycentricity - Middle East - History |
| Conflict of laws - Middle East - History | |
| Conflict of laws - Jurisdiction - Middle East - History | |
| Conflict of laws (Islamic law) - Middle East - History | |
| Conflict of laws (Canon law) | |
| Conflict of laws (Jewish law) | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Ancient Studies |
| History | |
| Law | |
| Medieval and Renaissance Studies | |
| Religion | |
| Religious Studies | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-291) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | part I. Legal pluralism in late antiquity and classical Islam : survey and analysis -- part II. The judicial choices of Christians and Jews in the early Islamic period: a comparative analysis. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In A Common Justice Uriel I. Simonsohn examines the legislative response of Christian and Jewish religious elites to the problem posed by the appeal of their coreligionists to judicial authorities outside their communities. Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, Simonsohn 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. By examining the incentives for appeal to external judicial institutions on the one hand and the response of minority confessional elites on the other, the study fundamentally alters our conception of the social history of the Near East in the early Islamic period.Contrary to the prevalent scholarly notion of a rigid social setting strictly demarcated along confessional lines, Simonsohn's comparative study of Christian and Jewish legal behavior under early Muslim rule exposes a considerable degree of fluidity across communal boundaries. This seeming disregard for religious affiliations threatened to undermine the position of traditional religious elites; in response, they acted vigorously to reinforce communal boundaries, censuring recourse to external judicial institutions and even threatening transgressors with excommunication. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A common justice |
| ISBN: | 1-283-89748-2 |
| 0-8122-0506-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822615003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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