 | A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam Subjects: Legal polycentricity -- Middle East -- History; Conflict of laws -- Middle East -- History; Conflict of laws -- Jurisdiction -- Middle East -- History; Conflict of laws (Islamic law) -- Middle East -- History; Conflict of laws (Canon law); Conflict of law; Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, this study explores the multiplicity of judicial systems that coexisted under early Islam to reveal a complex array of social obligations that connected individuals across confessional boundaries. Uriel I. Simonsohn is an affiliate of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
