A Common Justice : : The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam / / Uriel I. Simonsohn.

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• VerfasserIn: Simonsohn, Uriel I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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 betwe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Note on transliteration
• Introduction
• Part I. Legal Pluralism in Late Antiquity and Classical Islam: Survey and Analysis
• Chapter 1. A Late Antique Legacy of Legal Pluralism
• Chapter 2. Islam's Judicial Bazaar
• Part II. The Judicial Choices of Christians and Jews in the Early Islamic Period: A Comparative Analysis
• Introduction
• Christian and Jewish Communal Organizations after the Islamic Conquest
• Ecclesiastical and Rabbanite Leaders and Legal Pluralism in the Early Islamic Period
• Chapter 3. Eastern Christian Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period
• Chapter 4. Rabbanite Judicial Authorities in the Late Geonic Period
• Chapter 5. Christian Recourse to Nonecclesiastical Judicial Institutions
• Chapter 6. Jewish Recourse to Islamic Courts
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments