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Chapter 22 - Jewish Law

from Part III - Spiritual and Intellectual History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

By
Gideon Libson
Edited by
Phillip I. Lieberman
Phillip I. Lieberman
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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Summary

In the present chapter, I survey the major features of Jewish civil law in the Islamicate world through the fifteenth century – the production of halakhic (Jewish legal) literature, the approaches of the most important sages to the sources of law and other legal principles, and the procedures followed by rabbinic courts. I will also focus on how Islamic law influenced the development of halakhah in the Jewish communities in the Islamicate world.

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The Cambridge History of Judaism , pp. 728 - 761
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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