(Source: HUP)
Harvard University Press is
publishing a new book on Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under
Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law
and Christian Conquest in North West Africa examines Islamic legal
responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern
Iberia and North Africa. The fall of al-Andalus, or reconquista,
has long been considered a turning point, when the first substantial Muslim
populations fell under permanent Christian rule. Yet a near-exclusive focus on
conquered Iberian Muslims has led scholars to overlook a substantial body of
legal opinions issued in response to Portuguese and Spanish occupation in
Morocco itself, beginning in the early fifteenth century.
By moving beyond Iberia and
following Christian conquerors and Muslim emigrants into North Africa, Leaving
Iberia links the juristic discourses on conquered Muslims on both
sides of the Mediterranean, critiques the perceived exceptionalism of the
Iberian Muslim predicament, and adds a significant chapter to the story of
Christian–Muslim relations in the medieval Mediterranean. The final portion of
the book explains the disparate fates of these medieval legal opinions in
colonial Algeria and Mauritania, where jurists granted lasting authority to
some opinions and discarded others.
Based on research in the Arabic
manuscript libraries of five countries, Leaving Iberia offers
the first fully annotated translations of the major legal texts under analysis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jocelyn Hendrickson is Associate
Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta.
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