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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.

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Author:   Antonia Bosanquet
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   42
Weight:   0.797kg
ISBN:  

9789004423695

ISBN 10:   9004423699
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   27 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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

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[...] Ihren ‚Platz‘ hat Bosanquets Studie somit gefunden: als eine wegweisende Arbeit im Bereich der wissenschaftlichen Erschließung der Beziehungen zwischen Islam und Nichtmuslimen in der Vormoderne. [...] Bosanquet's study has found its 'place' as a groundbreaking work in the academic field of relations between Islam and non-Muslims in the pre-modern period. Stephan Kokew, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, in Der Islam, vol. 99, no. 1, 2022, pp. 242-246, https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2022-0010

[...] Ihren 'Platz' hat Bosanquets Studie somit gefunden: als eine wegweisende Arbeit im Bereich der wissenschaftlichen Erschliessung der Beziehungen zwischen Islam und Nichtmuslimen in der Vormoderne. [...] Bosanquet's study has found its 'place' as a groundbreaking work in the academic field of relations between Islam and non-Muslims in the pre-modern period. Stephan Kokew, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, in Der Islam, vol. 99, no. 1, 2022, pp. 242-246, https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2022-0010

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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.

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