Canon Law and Christian Societies Between Christianity and Islam An Arabic Canon Collection From al-Andalus and its Transcultural Contexts

Canon Law and Christian Societies Between Christianity and Islam An Arabic Canon Collection From al-Andalus and its Transcultural Contexts Matthias Maser, Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez, Geoffrey K. Martin (eds) Pages: 434 p. Size:156 x 234 mm Illustrations:2 tables b/w. Language(s):English Publication Year:2024 Buy print version ? 160,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE ISBN: 978-2-503-60726-9 Hardback Available The focus of this collected volume is the Arabic canon collection which is uniquely preserved in the mid-eleventh-century manuscript, Escorial árabe 1623. Subject(s) Canon law Palaeography, Scripts & Manuscript Studies Comparative religion Communities, social groups and social relations Cultural exchanges, transfers and influences Semitic langs & lits Iberian Peninsula (c. 500-1500) BIO Matthias Maser is Lecturer for Medieval History at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; his research interests center, among other issues, on 'Mozarabic' Christians on the medieval Iberian Peninsula. Geoffrey Martin is an independent scholar who has published on the manuscript culture of Arabic-speaking Christians in Iberia. Jesús Lorenzo Jimenez is senior lecturer for Medieval History at the University of the Basque Country. In his research, he focusses on frontier societies as reflected in their textual and archeological remnants. Summary The unique Arabic version of the Iberian canon law code 'Collectio Hispana', preserved in a mid-eleventh-century manuscript of the Royal Library of El Escorial, has been deemed "the most distinguished and characteristic" work of medieval Andalusi Christian writing. It represents an exceptional source witness to the internal legal organisation of Christian communities in Muslim-dominated al-Andalus as well as to their acculturation to Islamicate environments. Yet, the Arabic collection has received only little scholarly attention so far. This volume presents the results of a recent interdisciplinary research project on the Arabic canon law manuscript, flanked by contributions from neigbouring fields of research that allow for a comparative assessment of the substantial new findings. The individual chapters in this volume address issues such as the origins of the Arabic law code and its sole transmitting manuscript, its language and translation strategies, its source value for both the persistence and transformation of ecclesiastical institutions after the Muslim conquest, or the law code's position in the judicial practice of al-Andalus. The volume brings together the scholarly expertise of distinguished specialists in a broad range of disciplines, e.g. history, Arabic and Latin philology, medieval palaeography and codicology, archaeology, coptology, theology and history of law. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introductory Essays Jesús LORENZO JIMÉNEZ, Geoffrey K. MARTIN, and Matthias MASER: "Introduction: Canon Law and Christian Societies, Between Christianity and Islam. The Arabic Canon Collection From al-Andalus and its Transcultural Contexts" Matthias MASER: "Whens and Whereabouts-Old and New Lights on the Genesis of al-Qanun al-Muqaddas (El Escorial, ms. árabe 1623)" II. The CCAEA's Interrelations With Other Variants of the Latin Hispana Collection Pieter S. Van Koningsveld (?): "The Date of al-Qanun al-Muqaddas: The Lisbon Fragments and the Islamic Sources" Matthias M. TISCHLER: "Carolingian Canon Law Collections in Early Medieval Catalonia. Complementing or Replacing the Hispano-Visigothic Legal Tradition?" Cornelia SCHERER: "Looking Over the Editor's Shoulder. Strategies and Processes Applied to the Systematic Arrangement of the Collectio Hispana" Matthias MASER: "Papal Decretals in the Arabic Canon L