Marriage and the family between religion and empire in late antiquity -- Christianizing marriage under early Islam -- Forming households and forging religious boundaries in the abbasid caliphate -- The ancient roots and Islamic milieu of Syriac family law -- Islamic institutions…
In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Outside the world of theology, however, and beyond the walls of the mosque or the church, the multireligio…
In Between Christ and Caliph, Lev E. Weitz examines the multiconfessional society of early Islam through the lens of shifting marital practices of Syriac Christian communities, arguing that interreligious negotiations lie at the heart of the history of the medieval Islamic empir…