Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: When you think you have uncovered the secrets trapped in the trove of the Cairo Geniza, new discoveries continue to be made which fascinate the researchers and the conservators alike.One such discovery was the recent surfacing of two folios from a Fatimid legal manual entitled the Kitāb al-Iqtiṣār, penned in Ifrīqiya by the chief Fatimid jurist of the 10th-century, al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (d.974).Both fragments are from the as-yet unconserved and undigitized part of the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection (Mosseri IX2.24 + Mosseri Xa 3.43), and are presently housed at the Cambridge University Libraries.The first folio, Mosseri IXa 2.24, is measured 9.2 cm x 15.8 cm, with the maximum length measuring 12.9 cm.The folio is a section from the chapter on warfare (bāb al-jihād), and discusses three issues chiefly:1) Apostasy and Heresy: The punishment for apostasy (irtidād) and heresy (zandaqa).2) Moral Agency and Defense: The section on banditry distinguishes between those who defend property (and are martyred) and those who do not, showing a practical understanding of legal permissibility without enforcing obligation.3) Children's Religion: Assigning children the religious status of the mother if the father has apostatized.
Source: Apollo (University of Cambridge)
DOI: 10.17863/cam.128725
Author: Umrethwala, Yusuf
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7140289477
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