Maimonides and the merchants : Jewish law and society in the medieval Islamic world
The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through elevent...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | De Gruyter eBook-Paket Theologie, Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik
Jewish Culture and Contexts |
| Schlagworte: | Commercial law (Jewish law) Jewish merchants Partnership (Jewish law) Jewish Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. RELIGION / Judaism / History |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Acknowledgments