Ibn al-Ḥājj al-‘Abdarī a Maliki jurist in Mamluk Cairo, denounced a religious “innovation” (bid‘a) that had apparently become current in fourteenthcentury Egypt: “Infidels” would interrupt the Muslim Friday sermon in order to profess or reiterate their conversion to Islam before the entire congregation. Ibn al-Ḥājj urged preachers not to tolerate such interruptions under any circumstances, a posture that seems at odd with Mamluk policy of inducing such conversions especially among the Coptic community. The Maliki jurist’s legal arguments furnish new insights into the hitherto unexplored role of the Friday liturgical sermon in the conversion to Islam. This article will explain the legal basis of Ibn al-Ḥājj’s opposition to this practice, pro...
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International audienceThe reading of Arabic texts shows the complexity of the processes of the Islam...
Ibn al-Hajj al-‘Abdari a Maliki jurist in Mamluk Cairo, denounced a religious “innovation” (bid‘a) t...
While the symbiosis between law, morality, and religion is generally true of premodern Islamic socie...
Presentation and annotated translation of the Mas’alat al-kanā’is from Taqī al-dīn Aḥmad b. Taymiyya...
In circumstances of political and religious conflict, the Islamic ritual sermon could be traumatic, ...
[EN] This article deals with a fatwà drawn from the collection of legal cases (Nawāzil) of the Cordo...
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The article deals with a polemical treatise Masalik al-nazar (1320) of Saʿīd ibn Ḥasan, a Jewish con...
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Māwardī was a Muslim polymath, born in Basra, 364/974, d...
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The figure of ḏhimmī is certainly the most emblematic juristic figure in the history of Islamic law. S...
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