Mark R. Cohen

Maimonides and the Merchants

Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century.

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Produktdetails

• Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249149
• ISBN-10: 0812249143
• Artikelnr.: 46597882

Autorenporträt

Mark R. Cohen

Inhaltsangabe

Notes and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Codification and Legal Change
Chapter 2. Halakha and the Custom of the Merchants
Chapter 3. Updating the Halakha
Chapter 4. Partnership
Chapter 5. Commercial Agency (Suhba)
Chapter 6. Suhba-Agency in the Code
Chapter 7. Proxy Legal Agency
Chapter 8. Sale and Contract
Chapter 9. Judicial Autonomy
Conclusion. Legal Change and Originality
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments