Across Legal Lines
Subtitle: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300218466
Subjects: Jews, middle east; Jewish-arab relations; Judaism, relations, islam; Islam, relations, judaism
Description: "Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, Jessica Marglin charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society-until colonial reforms abruptly curtailed their legal mobility. Drawing on a broad range of archival documents, Marglin expands our understanding of contemporary relations between Jews and Muslims and changes the way we think about Jewish history, the Middle East, and the nature of legal pluralism."--