The Christians Whose Force is Hard: Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period

The Christians Whose Force is Hard: Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic PeriodJournal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/PES2ALF5/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Uriel I.SimonsohnThe Christians Whose Force is Hard: Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Periodhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/PES2ALF5https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/PES2ALF5https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/PES2ALF5Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient532010579-620This paper examines the context in which church leaders in the regions of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, during the first few centuries after the Arab conquest, were objecting to the appeal of the their coreligionists to judicial authorities outside ecclesiastical control. Rather than assuming that from the outset of the Islamic conquest Muslim judges served as immediate judicial alternatives, the paper shows that, at least in the early Islamic period, church leaders were often aiming their exhortations towards Christians who sought the authority of other Christian figures from outside ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Simonsohn, Uriel I. “The Christians Whose Force Is Hard: Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53 (2010): 579–620. Uriel I. Simonsohn, The Christians Whose Force Is Hard: Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53 (2010): 579–620.JacobitesMuslim-Christian relationsNestoriansVII CEVII-XVIII CEVIII CEcanon lawlawsociety