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Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista: The Debate on the Status of Muslim Communities in Christendom Hardcover - 2015

by Alan Verskin


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  • Title Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista: The Debate on the Status of Muslim Communities in Christendom
  • Author Alan Verskin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2015
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9789004283190 / 9004283196
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.6 in (23.88 x 16.00 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Islamic Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014040635
  • Dewey Decimal Code 297.14

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Alan Verskin received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has taught at Princeton University, Macalester College and Columbia University. He is presently an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Rhode Island. Most recently, he has published Oppressed in the Land? Fatwas on Muslims Living under Non-Muslim Rule from the Middle Ages to the Present (Markus Wiener Publishers, 2013).
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Leiden: Brill, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. x, 202pp. Index and 24 page bibliography. Blue over red boards, spine lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such rule became the subject of extensive intellectual investigation. In Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista, Alan Verskin examines the way in which the Iberian school of Mālikī law developed in response to the political, theological, and practical difficulties posed by the Reconquista. He shows how religious concepts, even those very central to the Islamic religious experience, could be rethought and reinterpreted in order to respond to the changing needs of Muslims. (Publisher) Contents: The concept of Hijra (migration) in Medieval Iberia and the… Read More
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