Lev E. Weitz <br/><br/>
Between Christ and Caliph:  Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam 

 - viii, 340 p.,  ill.;  24 cm 
 - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812250275 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Domestic relations--History--Middle East--To 1500<br/>Marriage law--History--Middle East--To 1500<br/>Syriac Christians--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Middle East--To 1500<br/>Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500<br/>Islamic Empire--Social life and customs<br/>Marriage (Canon law)--Eastern churches--History--To 1500<br/>Marriage (Islamic law)--History--Middle East--To 1500