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Title:

Islamic and Jewish legal reasoning : encountering our legal other / edited by Anver M. Emon.

Publisher:

Oneworld Publications,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxvi, 273 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Comparative religious law.
Islamic law.
Jewish law.
Law--Methodology.
Islam--Judaism.--Judaism.
Judaism--Islam.--Islam.

Other Authors:

Emon, Anver M., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010006107

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Social life of reason / Robert Gibbs. Assuming power : judges, imagined authority, and the quotidian / Rumee Ahmed and Aryeh Cohen -- Guardianship of women in Islamic and Jewish legal texts / Rachel Adler and Ayesha S. Chaudhry -- Cowering calf and the thirsty dog : narrating and legislating kindness to animals in Jewish and Islamic texts / Beth Berkowitz and Marion Katz -- Policing women : virginity checkers and the sotah ordeal as sites of women's agency / Ayesha S. Chaudhry and Shari Goldberg -- Sovereignty, law, and the pedagogy of historical fantasy : on the halakha on the laws of war and the fiqh on dhimmis / Arye Edrei and Anver M. Emon -- Cross-textual reflections on tradition, reason, and authority / Adam B. Seligman -- Social life of reason / Robert Gibbs.

ISBN:

9781780748801
1780748809

OCLC:

(OCoLC)965605933

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)