6. Can Christians Marry Their Cousins? Kinship, Legal Reasoning, and Islamic Intellectual Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on Transliteration, Translations, and Dates vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Empire, Household, and Christian Community from Late Antiquity to the Abbasid Caliphate
6. 1. Marriage and the Family Between Religion and Empire in Late Antiquity 17
7. 2. Christianizing Marriage Under Early Islam 41
8. 3. Forming Households and Forging Religious Boundaries in the Abbasid Caliphate 63
9. Part II. Christian Family Law in the Making of Caliphal Society and Intellectual Culture
10. 4. The Ancient Roots and Islamic Milieu of Syriac Family Law 109
11. 5. Islamic Institutions, Ecclesiastical Justice, and the Practical Shape of Christian Communities 123
12. 6. Can Christians Marry Their Cousins? Kinship, Legal Reasoning, and Islamic Intellectual Culture 145
13. 7. The Many Wives of Ahona: Christian Polygamy in Islamic Society 172
14. 8. Interreligious Marriage and the Multiconfessional Social Order 201
15. Part III. Islamic Law and Christian Jurists After Imperial Fragmentation
16. 9. “Christian Shariʿa” in Confrontation and Accommodation with Islamic Law in the Later Medieval Period 223
17. Conclusion. Christians and Christian Law in the Making of the Medieval Islamic Empire 247
18. Notes 253
19. Bibliography 297
20. Index 327
21. Acknowledgments 339