Islamic and Jewish legal reasoning: encountering our legal other
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London
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Oneworld Publications
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2016
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xxvi, 273 p.; 23 cm
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edited by Anver M. Emon
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Islamic and Jewish legal reasoning : beginnings / Anver M. Emon and 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