Islamic law and the crisis of the Reconquista : the debate on the status of Muslim communities in Christendom /
The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such rule becam...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
Series:
Studies in Islamic Law and Society
39.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.
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Call Number: KBP56 .V47 2015
| Summary: | The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such rule became the subject of extensive intellectual investigation. In Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista , Alan Verskin examines the way in which the Iberian school of Mālikī law developed in response to the political, theological, and practical difficulties posed by the Reconquista. He shows how religious concepts, even those very central to the Islamic religious experience, could be rethought and reinterpreted in order to respond to the changing needs of Muslims. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 202 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-199) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004284531 |
| ISSN: | 1384-1130 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |