Marriage and the family between religion and empire in late antiquity -- Christianizing marriage under early Islam -- Forming households and forging religious boundaries in the abbasid caliphate -- The ancient roots and Islamic milieu of Syriac family law -- Islamic institutions, ecclesiastical justice, and the practical shape of Christian communities -- Can Christians marry their cousins? : kinship, legal reasoning, and Islamic intellectual culture -- The many wives of Ahona : Christian polygamy in Islamic society -- Interreligious marriage and the multiconfessional social order -- "Christian Shariah" in confrontation and accommodation with Islamic law in the later medieval period -- Conclusion : Christians and Christian law in the making of the medieval Islamic empire.
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