Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th – 15th centuries)
Edited by John Victor Tolan Edited by Jerzy Mazur Edited by Capucine Nemo-Pekelman Edited by Nora Berend Edited by Youna Masset
The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely comparative perspective. The authors concentrate on a key aspect of this coexistence: the legal status attributed to Jews and Muslims in Christendom and to dhimm?s in Islamic lands. To what extent are the rights of the minorities to reside in their communities distinct from, or similar, to those of the majority community? What role did the law play in the segregation of religious groups? In limiting, combating, or on the contrary justifying violence against them? What specific treatments and procedures in the courtroom were reserved for plaintiffs, defendants or witnesses belonging to religious minorities? Through these questions, and through the innovative comparative method applied to them, this book offers a fresh new synthesis to these questions and a spur to new research.
The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely comparative perspective. The authors concentrate on a key aspect of this coexistence: the legal status attributed to Jews and Muslims in Christendom and to dhimm?s in Islamic lands. To what extent are the rights of the minorities to reside in their communities distinct from, or similar, to those of the majority community? What role did the law play in the segregation of religious groups? In limiting, combating, or on the contrary justifying violence against them? What specific treatments and procedures in the courtroom were reserved for plaintiffs, defendants or witnesses belonging to religious minorities? Through these questions, and through the innovative comparative method applied to them, this book offers a fresh new synthesis to these questions and a spur to new research.
- Edited by John Victor Tolan
- Edited by Jerzy Mazur
- Edited by Capucine Nemo-Pekelman
- Edited by Nora Berend
- Edited by Youna Masset
Other Titles in this Series
Canon Law and Christian Societies Between Christianity and Islam
An Arabic Canon Collection From al-Andalus and its Transcultural Contexts
Volume 11
Jews and Muslims under the Fourth Lateran Council
Papers Commemorating the Octocentenary of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
Volume 10
Expulsion and Diaspora Formation
Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
Volume 5
Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe
The Historiographical Legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz
Volume 7
Law and Religious Minorities in Medieval Societies
between theory and praxis: De la teoria legal a la practica en el derecho de las minoria religiosas en la Edad Media
Volume 9
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