Maimonides and the Merchants : Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World.
Maimonides and the Merchants :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780812294002 (electronic bk.)
9780812249149
9780812249149
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0188
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
©2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (247 pages)
Dizi
Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
Cover -- Contents -- Notes and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Codification and Legal Change -- Chapter 2. Halakha and the Custom of the Merchants -- Chapter 3. Updating the Halakha -- Chapter 4. Partnership -- Chapter 5. Commercial Agency (Ṣuḥba ) -- Chapter 6. Ṣuḥba -Agency in the Code -- Chapter 7. Proxy Legal Agency -- Chapter 8. Sale and Contract -- Chapter 9. Judicial Autonomy -- Conclusion. Legal Change and Originality -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Özet, vb.
In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century.
Konu
Jewish merchants--Islamic Empire--History--To 1500.
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