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At the turn of the twelfth century, the bishop and canons at Saint-Vincent, Macon constructed a new galilee, replete with paradisiacal imagery, as public entryway to their cathedral. It is argued here that this liminal space sheltered France's earliest Last Judgment portal. In c…

This work discusses the notion of maslahah (the consideration of the common good of the people) as explicated and applied by the Sunni school of law in general and by the Maliki school in particular. Maslahah has been utilized by Muslim jurists as a tool for accommodation and in…

Like other religions, Islam has traditionally recognized the difference between slave and free and has condoned the practice of slavery. Rules governing the status and treatment of slaves are found in the Qur'an, hadith, and in the earliest legal texts. This dissertation approac…

This work examines, critically, an East German theologian, Hanfried Muller, professor of theology at the Humboldt University in East Berlin and a committed Marxist. Specifically, the role of political ideology in Muller's theology, in general, and his views of the church, in par…