Minding their Place

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