The legal status of ḏimmī-s in the Islamic West (second/eighth-ninth/fifteenth centuries)

The first monograph devoted to the legal status of religious minorities status accorded to dimmī-s ( Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations. The studies brought together in this volume provide an important contribution to the history of ḏimmī-s in the medieval dār al-islām, and more generally to the legal history of religious minorities in medieval societies. The central question addressed is the legal status accorded to ḏimmī-s (Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The scholars whose work is brought together in these pages have dealt with a rich and complex variety of legal sources. Many of the texts are from the Mālikī legal tradition; they include fiqh, fatwā-s, ḥisba manuals. These texts function as the building blocks of the legal framework in which jurists and rulers of Maghrebi and Peninsular societies worked. The very richness and complexity of these texts, as well as the variety of responses that they solicited, refute the textbook idea of a monolithic ḏimmī system, supposedly based on the Pact of 'Umar, applied throughout the Muslim world. In fact when one looks closely at the early legal texts or chronicles from both the Mashreq and the Maghreb, there is little evidence for a standard, uniform ḏimmī system, but rather a wide variety of local adaptations. The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations Front Matter ("Editorial Board", "Title Page", "Copyright Page", "Table of Contents", "Note on transliteration"), p. 1 Free Access The legal status of ḏimmī-s in the Islamic West (second/eighth-ninth/fifteenth centuries): An Introduction, p. 9 Maribel Fierro https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101810 Non-Muslims as part of Islamic law: Juridical casuistry in a fifth/eleventh-century law manual, p. 21 Christian Müller https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101811 Encore sur le statut des ḏimmī-s sous le Almohades, p. 65 Mohamed Chérif https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101812 Doctrina sobre la ğizya en el Occidente islámico pre-moderno, p. 91 Alfonso Carmona González https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101813 Le statut des ḏimmī-s dans la Sicile aghlabide (212/827–297/910), p. 111 Annliese Nef https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101814 La formación de la doctrina legal mālikí sobre lugares de culto de los ḏimmíes, p. 131 Alejandro García Sanjuán https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101815 La fatwā sur la construction des églises à Cordoue au IVe/Xe siècle, p. 157 Jean-Pierre Molénat https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101816 La construction des frontières interconfessionelles: le cas des chrétiens d’al-Andalus dans le sources juridiques (iie/viiie–vie/xiie siècle), p. 167 Cyrille Aillet https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101817 Ḏimmíes en crónicas de al-Andalus: intereses y estrategias reflejadas en al-Muqtabis II-1 de Ibn Ḥayyān, p. 199 María Jesús Viguera https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101818 Cimetières et opérations funéraires en al-Andalus : ḏimmīs et non-musulmans face à la mort. Étude de cas à partir du Kitāb al-ğanā’iz de la Mustaḫrağa d’al-‘Utbī (m. 255/869) et de son commentaire al-Bayān wa l-taḥṣīl du Qāḍī Ibn Rušd al-Ğadd (m. 520/1126), p. 215 Farid Bouchiba https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101819 La compraventa de vino entre musulmanes y cristianos ḏimmíes a través de textos jurídicos mālikíes del Occidente islámico medieval, p. 243 Adday Hérnandez López https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101820 Recevabilité du témoignage du ḏimmī d'après les juristes mālikites d'Afrique du Nord, p. 275 Ahmed Oulddali https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101821 Les communautés juives du Maghreb central à lumière des fatwā-s mālikites de la fin du Moyen Âge, p. 295 Élise Voguet https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101822 The legal status of ḏimmī-s in the Fatimid East: A view from the palace in Cairo, p. 307 Marina Rustow https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101823 Families, Forgery and Falsehood: Two Jewish Legal Cases From Medieval Islamic North Africa, p. 335 David J. Wasserstein https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101824 Jews as Heretics in the Eyes of an Arabized Christian Community, p. 347 Ana Echevarria https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101825 Concluding remarks, p. 365 John Tolan https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RELMIN-EB.1.101826 Back Matter ("Sources and bibliography", "Index"), p. 375 "The studies brought together in this volume provide an important contribution to the history of d̲immī-s in the medieval dār al-islām, and more generally to the legal history of religious minorities in medieval societies. The central question addressed is the legal status accorded to d̲immī-s (Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The scholars whose work is brought together in these pages have dealt with a rich and complex variety of legal sources. Many of the texts are from the Mālikī legal tradition; they include fiqh, fatwā-s, ḥisba manuals. These texts function as the building blocks of the legal framework in which jurists and rulers of Maghrebi and Peninsular societies worked. The very richness and complexity of these texts, as well as the variety of responses that they solicited, refute the textbook idea of a monolithic d̲immī system, supposedly based on the Pact of 'Umar, applied throughout the Muslim world. In fact when one looks closely at the early legal texts or chronicles from both the Mashreq and the Maghreb, there is little evidence for a standard, uniform d̲immī system, but rather a wide variety of local adaptations. The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations."--P. [4] of cover The studies brought together in this volume provide an important contribution to the history of dimmi-s in the medieval dar al-islam, and more generally to the legal history of religious minorities in medieval societies. The central question addressed is the legal status accorded to dimmi-s (Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The scholars whose work is brought together in these pages have dealt with a rich and complex variety of legal sources. Many of the texts are from the Maliki legal tradition; they include fiqh, fatwa-s, hisba manuals. These texts function as the building blocks of the legal framework in which jurists and rulers of Maghrebi and Peninsular societies worked. The very richness and complexity of these texts, as well as the variety of responses that they solicited, refute the textbook idea of a monolithic dimmi system, supposedly based on the Pact of 'Umar, applied throughout the Muslim world. In fact when one looks closely at the early legal texts or chronicles from both the Mashreq and the Maghreb, there is little evidence for a standard, uniform dimmi system, but rather a wide variety of local adaptations. The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations