[Andalusi Studies] New Book: Islamic Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista

[Alan Verskin]

Dear All,

My latest book is now available. I hope that it  will interest those
studying the Mudéjars and Maliki law.


It is available at:

http://www.brill.com/products/book/islamic-law-and-crisis-spanish-reconquista

Preview on Google Books:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ptUuBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Book Description:
The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under
Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been
developed by scholars who lived under Muslim rule and who assumed this
condition as a given, how Muslims should proceed in the absence of such
rule became the subject of extensive intellectual investigation. In *Islamic
Law and the Crisis of the Reconquista*, Alan Verskin examines the way in
which the Iberian school of Mālikī law developed in response to the
political, theological, and practical difficulties posed by the
Reconquista. He shows how religious concepts, even those very central to
the Islamic religious experience, could be rethought and reinterpreted in
order to respond to the changing needs of Muslims.

All the best,

Alan Verskin
Assistant Professor of History
University of Rhode Island
verskin at uri.edu
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