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

This volume shows through the use of legal sources 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 shows how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. 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 Front Matter ("Table of Contents"), p. 1 Free Access Introduction, p. 7 Ana Echevarria, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109346 I – From Sacred Texts to Social Regulation/Del texto sagrado a la regulación social Defending Jewish Judicial Autonomy in the Islamic Middle Ages, p. 13 Mark R. Cohen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109347 The Melkites and Their Law: Between Autonomy and Assimilation, p. 35 Johannes Pahlitzsch https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109348 Cadíes, alfaquíes y la transmisión de la sharī‘a en época mudéjar, p. 47 Ana Echevarria https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109349 Straddling the Bounds: Jews in the Legal World of Islam, p. 73 David J. Wasserstein https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109350 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 ḏimmíes: entre la teoría y la práctica, p. 85 María Arcas Campoy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109351 ‘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, p. 101 Myriam Wissa https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109352 In the Eyes of Others: Nāmūs and sharī‘ah in Christian Arab Authors. Some Preliminary Details for a Typological Study, p. 111 Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109353 Los vapores de la sospecha. El baño público entre el mundo andalusí y la Castilla medieval (siglos X-XIII), p. 125 Marisa Bueno https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109354 III – Application of the Law/La aplicación de la ley Swearing by the Mujaljala: A fatwā on dhimmī Oaths in the Islamic West, p. 159 Camilla Adang https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109355 Forum Shopping in al-Andalus (II): Discussing Coran V, 42 and 49 (Ibn Ḥazm, Ibn Rushd al-Jadd, Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʽArabī and al-Qurṭubī), p. 173 Delfina Serrano https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109356 Religious Minorities’ Identity and Application of the Law: A First Approximation to the Lands of Military Orders in Castile, p. 197 Clara Almagro Vidal https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109357 La interacción en el espacio de dos sociedades diferentes: concordia establecida entre el bachiller Hernando Alonso y la aljama de moros de Talavera, p. 211 Yolanda Moreno Moreno https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109358 What do Legal Sources Tell Us about Social Practice? Possibilities and Limits, p. 229 John Tolan https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.5.109359 Back Matter ("Index"), p. 233 "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"--Back cover Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmis, 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 law was used to attempt to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between faithful and non-faithful and at the same time how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. These essays explore the possibilities and the limits of the use of legal sources for the social historian.