Law and the Islamization of Morocco Under the Almoravids

The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd Al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27780-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, Band 6, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib

Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids. The Fatwas of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib investigates the development of legal institutions in the Far Maghrib during its unification with al-Andalus under the Almoravids (434-530/1042-1147). A major contribution to our understanding of the twelfth-century Maghrib and the foundational role played by the Almoravids, it posits that political unification occurred alongside urban transformation and argues that legal institutions developed in response to the social needs of the growing urban spaces as well as to the administrative needs of the state. Such social needs included the regulation of market exchange, the settlement of commercial disputes, and the privatization and individualization of property.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gómez-Rivas, Camilo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Introduction
2 Historical and Historiographical Background
3 The Mufti
4 Urban Development of the Far Maghrib
5 Maliki Law and Custom in the Far Maghrib
6 The Development of the Network and Its Activity as Seen through al-Wansharisi’s Mi'yar and Qadi Iyad’s Tartib al-Madarik
7 Book Structure

1 Fatwas to Marrakesh: Regulation of the City Market and the Symbolic Authority of Maliki Learning
1 Introduction
2 The Founding and Development of Marrakesh
3 The Motor of Gold: Two Questions Involving Gold Exchange
4 Mediating Exchange: Two Questions over Commercial Disputes
5 Transmitting and Developing Juristic Knowledge: Two Questions Resolving Contradictions within the School
6 The Symbolic Religious Authority of Cordoba: the Case of the Man who Wouldn’t Remove his Turban and the Case of the Apostate

2 Fatwas to the Far Maghrib: Ibn Rushd’s Consultations for the Amir and Cases of Murder and Stolen Cattle
1 Introduction
2 Questions from the Almoravid Leadership: On the Permissibility of Ash'arism and the Exceptionalism of the Islamic Maghrib
3 Two Technical Questions from al-'Idwa: Ritual and Murder
4 The Islamicization of Property: Partitioning and Gifts from Plunder

3 Fatwas to Ceuta: Water Rights, Judicial Review, and Ibn Rushd’s Correspondence with al-Qadi 'Iyad
1 Introduction
2 Historical Background
3 The Qadi
4 Islamic Water Law
5 The First Ruling
6 The Case Re-Opened: Judicial Review and Avoiding Harm
7 'Iyad’s Case Part II: Riparian Dispute, Avoiding Harm, and Water Rights Adjudication

Epilogue

Appendix A: Breakdown of the Fatwas in al-Wansharisi’s Mi'yar by Subject and Region
Appendix B: Fatwas Chapter One
Appendix C: Fatwas Chapter Two
Appendix D: Fatwa Chapter Three, The Case of the Gardeners vs. the Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Ph.D. (2009), Yale University, is assistant professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His publications include "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier", in The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib (Oxford University Press, 2014).