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Zusatztext ‘Designed for the non-specialist! this fascinating book invites the reader to listen in on a conversation about law! Jewish law and Islamic law! among distinguished scholars thinking modern questions—the nature of law and judicial authority! the status of women! animal rights! and sovereignty—with ancient and medieval texts. It is a deeply serious book which models an informed and open dialogue about consequential matters rather than providing packaged pieties.’ Informationen zum Autor Dr. Anver M. Emon is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. Klappentext By pairing a scholar of Islamic law with a scholar of Jewish law, a unique dynamic is created, and new perspectives are made possible. These new perspectives not only enable an understanding of the other's legal tradition, but most saliently, they offer new insights into one's own legal tradition, shedding light on what had previously been assumed to be outside the scope of analytic vision. In the course of this volume, scholars come together to examine such issues as judicial authority, the legal policing of female sexuality, and the status of those who stand outside one's own tradition. Whether for the pursuit of advanced scholarship, pedagogic innovation in the classroom, or simply a greater appreciation of how to live in a multi-faith, post-secular world, these encounters are richly-stimulating, demonstrating how legal tradition can be used as a common site for developing discussions and opening up diverse approaches to questions about law, politics, and community. Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning offers a truly incisive model for considering the good, the right and the legal in our societies today. Zusammenfassung What happens if we read ‘our’ legal texts alongside the texts, and experts, of our legal tradition’s ‘other’? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning-Beginnings (Anver M. Emon and Robert Gibbs) On Reading Together Formation of a Reading Practice From Reading Together to Writing Together PART I 1 Assuming Power: Judges, Imagined Authority, and the Quotidian (Rumee Ahmed and Aryeh Cohen) Introduction Rumee Ahmed Aryeh Cohen Rumee Ahmed Aryeh Cohen: Coda Conclusion 2 Guardianship of Women in Islamic and Jewish Legal Texts (Rachel Adler and Ayesha S. Chaudhry) Introduction Reading an Islamic Legal Text Together Reading a Jewish Legal Text Together Further Reflections: Rachel Adler Comparative Reflections: Ayesha S. Chaudhry Conclusion 3 The Cowering Calf and the Thirsty Dog: Narrating and Legislating Kindness to Animals in Jewish and Islamic Texts (Beth Berkowitz and Marion Katz) Introduction Dialogue 1: Legal Obligations toward Animals Dialogue 2: Compassion toward Animals Conclusion 4 Policing Women: Virginity Checkers and the Sotah Ordeal as Sites of Women's Agency (Ayesha S. Chaudhry and Shari Golberg) Women Policing Women: From Montreal to Jerusalem The Hidaya: Testimony in Cases of Zina Mishnah Sotah: Testimony in the Case of Suspected Adultery The Adulteress vs. the Adulterer Conclusion 5 Sovereignty, Law, and the Pedagogy of Historical Fantasy: On the Halakha on the Laws of War and the Fiqh on Dhimmis (Arye Edrei and Anver M. Emon) Introduction Early Rabbinic and Islamic Legal Trajectories Inverting the Political Form Conclusion PART II 6 Cross-Textual Reflections on Tradition, Reason, and Authority (Adam B. Seligman) Introduction: Tradition and ...
