Anver Emon

Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other

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Produktbeschreibung

What happens if we read 'our' legal texts alongside the texts, and experts, of our legal tradition's 'other'? 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ONEWorld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781780748801
• ISBN-10: 1780748809
• Artikelnr.: 43675401

Autorenporträt

Dr. Anver M. Emon is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning-Beginnings
(Anver M. Emon and Robert Gibbs)
On Reading Together
Formation of a Reading Practice
From Reading Together to Writing Together
 
PART I
1 Assuming Power: Judges, Imagined Authority, and the Quotidian
(Rumee Ahmed and Aryeh Cohen)
Introduction
Rumee Ahmed
Aryeh Cohen
Rumee Ahmed
Aryeh Cohen: Coda
Conclusion
 
2 Guardianship of Women in Islamic and Jewish Legal Texts
(Rachel Adler and Ayesha S. Chaudhry)
Introduction
Reading an Islamic Legal Text Together
Reading a Jewish Legal Text Together
Further Reflections: Rachel Adler
Comparative Reflections: Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Conclusion
 
3 The Cowering Calf and the Thirsty Dog: Narrating and Legislating Kindness
to Animals in Jewish and Islamic Texts
(Beth Berkowitz and Marion Katz)
Introduction
Dialogue 1: Legal Obligations toward Animals
Dialogue 2: Compassion toward Animals
Conclusion
 
4 Policing Women: Virginity Checkers and the Sotah Ordeal as Sites of
Women's Agency
(Ayesha S. Chaudhry and Shari Golberg)
Women Policing Women: From Montreal to Jerusalem
The Hidaya: Testimony in Cases of Zina
Mishnah Sotah: Testimony in the Case of Suspected Adultery
The Adulteress vs. the Adulterer
Conclusion
 
5 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)
Introduction
Early Rabbinic and Islamic Legal Trajectories
Inverting the Political Form
Conclusion
 
PART II
6 Cross-Textual Reflections on Tradition, Reason, and Authority
(Adam B. Seligman)
Introduction: Tradition and Reason
Tradition and Dialogue
Authority and Religion
 
7 The Social Life of Reason
(Robert Gibbs)
A Philosophical Framework
Philosophical Questions
 
List of Contributors
Index