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Between Christ and Caliph : law, marriage, and Christian community in early Islam
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Between Christ and Caliph : law, marriage, and Christian community in early Islam / Lev E. Weitz.
ISBN
9780812250275
0812250273
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Physical Description
viii, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 29, 2018
Series
Divinations: rereading late ancient religion.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Marriage and the family between religion and empire in late antiquity
Christianizing marriage under early Islam
Forming households and forging religious boundaries in the abbasid caliphate
The ancient roots and Islamic milieu of Syriac family law
Islamic institutions, ecclesiastical justice, and the practical shape of Christian communities
Can Christians marry their cousins? : kinship, legal reasoning, and Islamic intellectual culture
The many wives of Ahona : Christian polygamy in Islamic society
Interreligious marriage and the multiconfessional social order
"Christian Shariʻah" 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.
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