Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen (Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies) - Softcover

Wagner, Mark S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253014875 ISBN 13: 9780253014870

Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2014

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This book offers an important contribution to the understanding of Jewish-Muslim relations under the shari'a, and to the study of Yemeni Jews. * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies * This book is broad and interesting and opens a new window for the study of the legal status of the Jews of Yemen in the twentieth century. * Journal of the American Oriental Society * During the early twentieth century, Yemeni Jews operated within a legal structure that defined them as dhimmi, that is, non-Muslims living as a protected population under the sovereignty of an Islamic state . . . Wagner's work deepens our understanding of Muslim-Jewish relations in Yemen and the place of non-Muslims in Islamic law in general.6/20/15 * New Books in Jewish Studies * Mark S. Wagner has made an important and original contribution to the growing body of adaemic studies on Yemenite Jewish history and culture. . . Although the book's theme is how Jews negotiated life in a traditional Muslim society in which the Sharia was theoretically the overarching governing framework, Wagner also offers fascinating insights into the complexities of daily social, economic, and political life in Yemen. * AJS Reviews * A fascinating study indispensable to students and libraries interested in the tentative relationshipbetween Muslims and Jews in the Middle East. * AJL Reviews * Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-century Yemen provides us with rich material, heretofore unavailable in English, and Wagner uses this material to deepen our understanding of Muslim-Jewish relations in Yemen and the place of non-Muslims in Islamic law.22 2015 * Islamic Law and Society * Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen . . . is a monograph that draws on literature studies, Islamic legal studies, history and anthropology. Students and scholars from all these fields as well as Yemeni studies in general will find this a rich and well written book. * Arabian Humanities * Jews and Islamic Law in early 20th-century Yemen offers an important theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of minorities and marginal groups. * Antropologia *

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In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact with Islamic courts and Muslim jurists, by choice and by necessity, became embroiled in the most intimate details of their Jewish neighbors' lives. Mark S. Wagner draws on autobiographical writings to study the careers of three Jewish intermediaries who used their knowledge of Islamic law to manipulate the shari`a for their own benefit and for the good of their community. The result is a fresh perspective on the place of religious minorities in Muslim societies.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0253014875
• ISBN 13: 9780253014870
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224