Law And Religious Minorities In Medieval Societies: Between Theory And Praxis. De La TeoríA Legal A La PráCtica En El Derecho De Las MinoríA Religiosas En La Edad Media Various

Ana Echevarria, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, John Victor Tolan (eds). Pages: 239 p.Illustrations:1 tables col. Language(s):English, Spanish, French. Publication Year:2016. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-56694-8. Paperback -- SUMMARY Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmīs, inferior but protected non-Muslim communities (in particular Jews and Christians) and Roman Canon law decreed a similar status for Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe. Yet the theoretical hierarchies between faithful and infidel were constantly brought into question in the daily interactions between men and women of different faiths in streets, markets, bath-houses, law courts, etc. The twelve essays in this volume explore these tensions and attempts to resolve them. These contributions show that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful—and at the same time how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. These essays explore also the possibilities and the limits of the use of legal sources for the social historian. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Ana Echevarria and Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala I. From Sacred Texts to Social Regulation / Del texto sagrado a la regulación social Defending Jewish Judicial Autonomy in the Islamic Middle Ages - Mark R. Cohen The Melkites and Their Law: Between Autonomy and Assimilation - Johannes Pahlitzsch Cadíes, alfaquíes y la transmisión de la shar'a en época mudéjar - Ana Echevarria Straddling the Bounds: Jews in the Legal World of Islam - David J. Wasserstein II. Negotiating Daily Contacts and Frictions / Negociando contactos y fricciones diarias El criterio de los juristas malikíes sobre los alimentos y las bebidas de los dimmíes: entre la teoría y la práctica - María Arcas Campoy ‘Twenty-five hundred knidia of wine and two boats to transport the wine to Fustāt’. An Insight into Wine Consumption and Use Amongst the dhimmīs and wider Communities in Umayyad Egypt - Myriam Wissa In the Eyes of Others: Namus and sharī‘ah in Christian Arab Authors. Some Preliminary Details for a Typological Study - Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala Los vapores de la sospecha. El bano publico entre el mundo andalusí y la Castilla medieval (siglos X–XIII) - Marisa Bueno III. Application of the Law / La aplicación de la ley Swearing by the Mujaljala: A fatwa on dhimmī Oaths in the Islamic West - Camilla Adang'Forum Shopping in al-Andalus (II): Discussing Coran V, 42 and 49 (Ibn Hazm, Ibn Rushd al-Jadd, Abu Bakr Ibn al-ʽArabi and al-Qurtubi) - Delfina Serrano Religious Minorities’ Identity and Application of the Law: A First Approximation to the Lands of Military Orders in Castile - Clara Almagro Vidal La interacción en el espacio de dos sociedades diferentes: concordia establecida entre el bachiller Hernando Alonso y la aljama de moros de Talavera - Yolanda Moreno Moreno What do Legal Sources Tell Us about Social Practice? Possibilities and Limits - John Tolan