Beschreibung:
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.
Note on TransliterationIntroductionPART I. LEGAL PLURALISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND CLASSICAL ISLAM: SURVEY AND ANALYSISChapter 1. A Late Antique Legacy of Legal PluralismChapter 2. Islam's Judicial BazaarPART II. THE JUDICIAL CHOICES OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSISChapter 3. Eastern Christian Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic PeriodChapter 4. Rabbanite Judicial Authorities in the Late Geonic PeriodChapter 5. Christian Recourse to Nonecclesiastical Judicial InstitutionsChapter 6. Jewish Recourse to Islamic CourtsConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments