Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids

Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Ph.D. (2009), Yale University, is assistant professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His publications include "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier", in The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib (Oxford University Press, 2014).

• Acknowledgements Introduction1 Introduction2 Historical and Historiographical Background3 The Muftī 4 Urban Development of the Far Maghrib 5 Mālikī Law and Custom in the Far Maghrib 6 The Development of the Network and Its Activity as Seen through al-Wansharīsī’s Miʿyār and Qāḍī Iyāḍ’s Tartīb al-Madārik 7 Book Structure 1 Fatwās to Marrakesh: Regulation of the City Market and the Symbolic Authority of Mālikī Learning1 Introduction 2 The Founding and Development of Marrakesh 3 The Motor of Gold: Two Questions Involving Gold Exchange 4 Mediating Exchange: Two Questions over Commercial Disputes 5 Transmitting and Developing Juristic Knowledge: Two Questions Resolving Contradictions within the School 6 The Symbolic Religious Authority of Cordoba: the Case of the Man who Wouldn’t Remove his Turban and the Case of the Apostate 2 Fatwās to the Far Maghrib: Ibn Rushd’s Consultations for the Amīr and Cases of Murder and Stolen Cattle1 Introduction 2 Questions from the Almoravid Leadership: On the Permissibility of Ashʿarism and the Exceptionalism of the Islamic Maghrib 3 Two Technical Questions from al-ʿIdwa: Ritual and Murder 4 The Islamicization of Property: Partitioning and Gifts from Plunder 3 Fatwās to Ceuta: Water Rights, Judicial Review, and Ibn Rushd’s Correspondence with al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ1 Introduction 2 Historical Background 3 The Qāḍī 4 Islamic Water Law 5 The First Ruling 6 The Case Re-Opened: Judicial Review and Avoiding Harm 7 ʿIyāḍ’s Case Part II: Riparian Dispute, Avoiding Harm, and Water Rights Adjudication Epilogue Appendix A: Breakdown of the Fatwās in al-Wansharīsī’s Miʿyār by Subject and Region Appendix B: Fatwās Chapter One Appendix C: Fatwās Chapter Two Appendix D: Fatwā Chapter Three, The Case of the Gardeners vs. the Bibliography Index

“Le livre de C. Gómez-Rivas apporte une contribution précieuse et originale à notre connaissance de l’évolution du malikisme et de l’histoire du Maghreb médiéval en général.”Ismail Warscheid in Studia Islamica 110 (2015) 268-271.