Minding their Place

Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim’s Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

Antonia Bosanquet (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

454 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42369-5 (ISBN)

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In Minding Their Place Antonia Bosanquet analyses the relevance of space to Ibn al-Qayyim’s (d. 751/1350) rulings about non-Muslim subjects in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma. She shows how his definition of their social role develops his theological view of inter-religious relations.

Antonia Bosanquet’s Minding Their Place is the first full-length study of Ibn al-Qayyim’s (d. 751/1350) collection of rulings relating to non-Muslim subjects, Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma. It offers a detailed study of the structure, content and authorial method of the work, arguing that it represents the author’s personal composition rather than a synthesis of medieval rulings, as it has often been understood. On this basis, Antonia Bosanquet analyses how Ibn al-Qayyim’s presentation of rulings in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma uses space to convey his view of religious hierarchy. She considers his answer to the question of whether non-Muslims have a place in the Abode of Islam, how this is defined and how his definition contributes to Ibn al-Qayyim’s broader theological world-view.

Antonia Bosanquet, PhD (2016), Freie Universität Berlin, is a research associate at Hamburg University. Her previous publications focus on inter-religious relations in Islamic thought, ranging from the 14th-century author Ibn al-Qayyim to the 20th-century author, Muḥammad Quṭb.

Acknowledgements

List of Figure and Tables

Introduction

1 Questions Raised in this Study

2 Terms and Concepts

3 Space and Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

4 Text as Space?

5 Significance of this Study

6 Method and Chapter Outline

part 1: Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma: Text and Content

1 Author, Text and Reception

1 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

2 The Text of Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

3 Reception

4 Manuscripts and Editions

2 Historical Background

1 Muslims and non-Muslims in the Mamluk Empire

2 The ʿUlamāʾ in the Mamluk Period

3 Literary Precedents

1 The Pact of ʿUmar and the Contract Genre

2 The Fiqh Compendia

3 Juristic Literature Focusing on the Ahl al-Dhimma

4 Manuals of Governance and Statecraft

5 Ādāb al-Muḥtasib

6 Mamluk Prescriptive Literature

7 Similarities and Differences Between the Literary Precedents for Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

8 Conclusions: Locating Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

4 Structure and Method

1 Structure and Subject Division Within Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

2 Sources and Method

3 Sources for Aḥkām Ahl al-Dhimma

4 Source Incorporation and Authorial Agency

5 The Dialectical Method

6 Digression: its Uses and Functions

7 Qur’anic Verses and Hadith

8 Conclusion to Part One

part 2: Space in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

5 Separate Space

1 Mosques, Churches and Dhimmi Homes

2 Geographical Boundaries and Muslim Space

3 Ṣulḥ Land, ʿAnwa Land and Dhimmi Space

4 Tax

5 Employment in State Administration

6 Festivals

7 Dhimmi Marriage

8 The Dhimmi Wife and the Female Body

9 Death, Burial and the Afterlife

10 Conclusion: Separate Space and Private Space in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

6 The Relational Space of Personal Interaction

1 Greeting

2 Visiting the Sick and Attending Funerals

3 Commercial Exchange and Business Partnerships

4 Conversion to Islam and Marriage Relations

5 The Female Convert’s Relations with her Non-Muslim Family

6 The Male Convert’s Relations with his Non-Muslim Family

7 Mixed Marriages and Shared Households

8 Conclusion: The Characterisation of the Dhimmi

7 The Relational Space of Public Performance

1 Structural Incorporation of the Pact of ʿUmar in Aḥkām Ahl al-Dhimma

2 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Sources for the Pact of ʿUmar

3 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Presentation of the Pact of ʿUmar

4 Stage Props: Movable Religious Symbols

5 Stage Backdrop: Non-Movable Religious Symbols

6 Scripting Dhimmi Performance: Regulating Appearance and Comportment

7 Conclusion

8 The Contested Space of Non-Muslim Children

1 Aḥkām Ahl al-Dhimma and the Question of Dhimmi Children

2 Sources and Framing

3 Children in This Abode: Legal Responsibility and Religious Education

4 Legitimising the Non-Muslim Status of the Child

5 Legitimising the Conversion of the Non-Muslim Child

6 Sunni Positions on the Fate of Non-Muslim Children After Death

7 Ibn al-Qayyim’s Review of the Positions

8 Conclusion

Conclusion: Space, Religious Difference and Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

1 Space in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

2 Muslims and non-Muslims in Aḥkām Ahl al-Dhimma

3 The Place of Dhimmis in the Abode of Islam

4 Identity, Alterity and Power

5 Aḥkām Ahl al-Dhimma, Regulatory Discourse about Dhimmis and Ibn al-Qayyim

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	The History of Christian-Muslim Relations ; 42
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	arabisch; englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	797 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-42369-9 / 9004423699
ISBN-13	978-90-04-42369-5 / 9789004423695
Zustand	Neuware