Islamic Law on the Provincial Margins: Christian Patrons and Muslim Notaries in Upper Egypt, 2nd-5th/8th-11th Centuries

Abstract This article examines the interaction of Coptic Christians with Islamic legal institutions in provincial Egypt on the basis of a corpus of 193 Arabic legal documents, as well as relevant Coptic ones, dating to the 2nd-5th/8th-11th centuries. I argue that around the 3rd/9th century Islamic E...

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Main Author: Weitz, Lev (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 27, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 5-52
Further subjects:B Interreligious Relations
B Papyrology
B rural history
B Coptic Christianity
B Islamization
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