Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam
Material type: TextSeries: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient ReligionPublisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018Description: viii, 340 p., ill.; 24 cmISBN:- 9780812250275
- Domestic relations -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
- Marriage law -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
- Syriac Christians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
- Islamic Empire -- Social life and customs
- Marriage (Canon law) -- Eastern churches -- History -- To 1500
- Marriage (Islamic law) -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.
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.
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