Between Christ and Caliph : : Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam / / Lev E. Weitz.

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• VerfasserIn: Weitz, Lev E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 6 illus.

In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Outside the world of theology, however, and beyond the walls of the mosque or the church, the multireligious social order of th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• A Note on Transliteration, Translations, and Dates
• Introduction
• Part I. Empire, Household, and Christian Community from Late Antiquity to the Abbasid Caliphate
• 1. Marriage and the Family Between Religion and Empire in Late Antiquity
• 2. Christianizing Marriage Under Early Islam
• 3. Forming Households and Forging Religious Boundaries in the Abbasid Caliphate
• Part II. Christian Family Law in the Making of Caliphal Society and Intellectual Culture
• 4. The Ancient Roots and Islamic Milieu of Syriac Family Law
• 5. Islamic Institutions, Ecclesiastical Justice, and the Practical Shape of Christian Communities
• 6. Can Christians Marry Their Cousins? Kinship, Legal Reasoning, and Islamic Intellectual Culture
• 7. The Many Wives of Ahona: Christian Polygamy in Islamic Society
• 8. Interreligious Marriage and the Multiconfessional Social Order
• Part III. Islamic Law and Christian Jurists After Imperial Fragmentation
• 9. “Christian Shariʿa” in Confrontation and Accommodation with Islamic Law in the Later Medieval Period
• Conclusion. Christians and Christian Law in the Making of the Medieval Islamic Empire
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments