Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam Weitz Lev E
Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam Weitz Lev E In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of autonomous religious…
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Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam Weitz Lev E
In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Peoples of different faiths--Sunnis, Shiites, Christians, Jews, and others--interacted with each other in city streets, marketplaces, and even shared households, all under the rule of the Islamic caliphate. Outside the world of theology, however, and beyond the walls of the mosque or the church, the multireligious social order of the medieval Islamic empire was complex and dynamic.
Weitz examines the multiconfessional society of early Islam through the lens of shifting marital practices of Syriac Christian communities. In Laypeople of different confessions marked their religious belonging through fluctuating, sometimes overlapping, social norms and practices.In Between Christ and Caliph, Lev E.