RT Book
T1 Between christ and caliph: law, marriage, and christian community in early islam
T2 Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Ser
A1 Weitz, Lev E.
LA English
PP Philadelphia
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1024409813
AB In Between Christ and Caliph, Lev E. Weitz examines the multiconfessional society of early Islam through the lens of shifting marital practices of Syriac Christian communities, arguing that interreligious negotiations lie at the heart of the history of the medieval Islamic empire
AB Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments
SN 9780812295115
K1 Domestic relations-Middle East-History-To 1500
K1 Marriage law-Middle East-History-To 1500
K1 Syriac Christians-Legal status, laws, etc.-Middle East-History-To 1500
K1 Islam-Relations-Christianity-History-To 1500
K1 Islamic Empire-Social life and customs
K1 Marriage (Canon law)-Eastern churches-History-To 1500
K1 Marriage (Islamic law)-Middle East-History-To 1500
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