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Author:   Uriel I. Simonsohn
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780812243499

ISBN 10:   0812243498
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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 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 List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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This is a very welcome book. It offers a theoretically informed and up-to-date analysis of the workings of social power within communities that lived side by side, even if they are said to have lived separate lives. -Arietta Papaconstantinou, Universite Paris I An important and much-needed contribution to ongoing debates about minorities in the Middle Ages and about minorities under Islam as well as their relative freedoms and disabilities. The book is built on solid research and an impressive mastery of a wide variety of source materials in numerous languages. The arguments it puts forward are entirely convincing and have the potential to help move forward a remarkably stubborn and ideologically laden historiographic consensus. -Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University

This is a very welcome book. It offers a theoretically informed and up-to-date analysis of the workings of social power within communities that lived side by side, even if they are said to have lived separate lives. -Arietta Papaconstantinou, Universite Paris I An important and much-needed contribution to ongoing debates about minorities in the Middle Ages and about minorities under Islam as well as their relative freedoms and disabilities. The book is built on solid research and an impressive mastery of a wide variety of source materials in numerous languages. The arguments it puts forward are entirely convincing and have the potential to help move forward a remarkably stubborn and ideologically laden historiographic consensus. -Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University

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Uriel I. Simonsohn is an affiliate of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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