Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids : : the fatwas of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the far Maghrib / / by Camilo Gómez-Rivas.

• Superior document: Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib, Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Gomez-Rivas, Camilo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history and society of the Maghrib ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Notes: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Yale University, 2009) issued under title: The Fatwas of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib.

Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids. The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib investigates the development of legal institutions in the Far Maghrib during its unification with al-Andalus under the Almoravids (434-530/1042-1147). A major contribution to our understanding of the twelfth-century Maghrib and the foundational role played by the Almoravids, it posits that political unification occurred alongside urban transformation and argues that legal institutions developed in response to the social needs of the growing urban spaces as well as to the administrative needs of the state. Such social needs included the regulation of market exchange, the settlement of commercial disputes, and the privatization and individualization of property.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Fatwās to Marrakesh: Regulation of the City Market and the Symbolic Authority of Mālikī Learning -- 2 Fatwās to the Far Maghrib: Ibn Rushd’s Consultations for the Amīr and Cases of Murder and Stolen Cattle -- 3 Fatwās to Ceuta: Water Rights, Judicial Review, and Ibn Rushd’s Correspondence with al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Breakdown of the Fatwās in al-Wansharīsī’s Miʿyār by Subject and Region -- Appendix B: Fatwās Chapter One -- Appendix C: Fatwās Chapter Two -- Appendix D: Fatwā Chapter Three, The Case of the Gardeners vs. the Miller -- Bibliography -- Index.