What is it about?
The dynasty that founded Marrakesh and brought the areas of Morocco and southern Spain together for the first time in centuries patronized legal institutions as a way to bolster their credibility and administrative efficiency.
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Why is it important?
Shows how Islamic Law is not just an ideological rallying point for the pious but part of a regional culture of high learning and a sophisticated tool for governance.
Perspectives
This book attempts to answer a series of social historical questions through a reading of legal texts, which form part of an intellectual tradition that responds to the dynamic of that tradition as well as to the social and political needs of its context of production and transmission.
Associate Professor Camilo Gómez-Rivas
University of California, Santa Cruz
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This page is a summary of: Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids, January 2015, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004279841.
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