
Published online:
29 May 2014
Published in print:
09 October 2013
Online ISBN:
9780804788519
Print ISBN:
9780804786997
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A Necessary Friendship A Necessary Friendship
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Breaking with the Colonial Past: Local Archives and Regional Histories Breaking with the Colonial Past: Local Archives and Regional Histories
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Dendritic Markets: Jewish Peddlers on the Move Dendritic Markets: Jewish Peddlers on the Move
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Local Manuscripts and the History of the Jews of Akka Local Manuscripts and the History of the Jews of Akka
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Legal Syncretism: The Jews of Akka Between ‘urf and shari‘a Law Legal Syncretism: The Jews of Akka Between ‘urf and shari‘a Law
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The Local Qadi The Local Qadi
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Case Studies: Qadis and Akkan Jews Case Studies: Qadis and Akkan Jews
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Chapter
2 Outside the Mellah: Market, Law, and Muslim-Jewish Encounters
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29–56
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Published:October 2013
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Boum, Aomar, 'Outside the Mellah: Market, Law, and Muslim-Jewish Encounters', Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Redwood City, CA , 2013; online edn, Stanford Scholarship Online, 29 May 2014), https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804786997.003.0003, accessed 15 May 2025.
Abstract
Using private collections of legal Islamic documents and ethnographic data, this chapter discusses the economic and social relations between Jews and Muslims. In southern Morocco, Jews were able to move among many legal systems, giving them the flexibility to transcend the restrictions of the Islamic law (shari‘a), tribal customs (urf), and social structures. As weak and protected merchants and peddlers, Jews benefited from the rights that customary and Islamic laws gave them outside the mellah. Accordingly, they were able to mix their strategic efforts through what the author terms legal syncretism.
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