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Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient ReligionPublisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018Description: viii, 340 p., ill.; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780812250275
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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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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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