Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the citation of sources, dates, places, and names
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise, 700–1200
- Part II Muslims under Christian rule
- Part III INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY IN THE CHRISTIAN EBRO
- INTRODUCTION
- CASE STUDY 1: FISCAL AND CONFESSIONAL IDENTITY: THE GALIPS, TEMPLAR VASSALS IN ZARAGOZA (1179–1390)
- CASE STUDY 2: FRANQUITAS AND FACTIONALISM IN DAROCA: THE LUÇERA FAMILY VS. THE ALJAMA (1267–1302)
- CASE STUDY 3: LITIGATION AND COMPETITION WITHIN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY: THE ABDELLAS OF DAROCA (1280–1310)
- CASE STUDY 4: ADMINISTRATIVE CORRUPTION AND ROYAL COMPLICITY: ABRAHIM ABENGENTOR, ÇAUALQUEM OF HUESCA (1260–1304)
- CASE STUDY 5: OVERLAPPING AGENDAS: THE CAREER OF MAHOMET, ALAMINUS OF BORJA (1276–1302)
- CASE STUDY 6: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE INDIFFERENT: CHRISTIAN OFFICIALS IN THE EBRO REGION
- PERSONAL HISTORIES: THE INDIVIDUAL, WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth series
CASE STUDY 3: LITIGATION AND COMPETITION WITHIN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY: THE ABDELLAS OF DAROCA (1280–1310)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the citation of sources, dates, places, and names
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I Muslim domination of the Ebro and its demise, 700–1200
- Part II Muslims under Christian rule
- Part III INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY IN THE CHRISTIAN EBRO
- INTRODUCTION
- CASE STUDY 1: FISCAL AND CONFESSIONAL IDENTITY: THE GALIPS, TEMPLAR VASSALS IN ZARAGOZA (1179–1390)
- CASE STUDY 2: FRANQUITAS AND FACTIONALISM IN DAROCA: THE LUÇERA FAMILY VS. THE ALJAMA (1267–1302)
- CASE STUDY 3: LITIGATION AND COMPETITION WITHIN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY: THE ABDELLAS OF DAROCA (1280–1310)
- CASE STUDY 4: ADMINISTRATIVE CORRUPTION AND ROYAL COMPLICITY: ABRAHIM ABENGENTOR, ÇAUALQUEM OF HUESCA (1260–1304)
- CASE STUDY 5: OVERLAPPING AGENDAS: THE CAREER OF MAHOMET, ALAMINUS OF BORJA (1276–1302)
- CASE STUDY 6: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE INDIFFERENT: CHRISTIAN OFFICIALS IN THE EBRO REGION
- PERSONAL HISTORIES: THE INDIVIDUAL, WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth series
Summary
The maintenance of a separate Islamic judicial system under Christian rule was a corollary of the contemporary concept of “nation” and law, which was anchored in a community's religious beliefs. But the Muslim legal system hardly survived unchanged by Christian domination: jurisdictions and offices changed, many of the formal and informal mechanisms which had operated to maintain the integrity of the system disappeared, and the separation of judicial and executive power seriously undermined its authority. The following study, revolving around what should have been a fairly straightforward case of “personal” law, illustrates several of these trends and further reveals the dynamic of interfamily competition in the aljama of Daroca.
Some time before May 1280 a dispute over some property arose between Iunez Abdella of Daroca and Ali de Mutarra and his sisters, in which the latter demanded the return of an unspecified property (hereditas) which the former possessed. Pere II ordered the baiulus of Daroca to oversee the inquiry, presumably to ensure that it would be assigned to the proper Islamic official, given that it dealt with an inter-Muslim dispute. The baiulus duly appointed the matter to Çayen, the town's alaminus, who judged the case some time in the following eleven months and found in Ali's and his sisters' favor.
Not to be deterred, Iunez launched an appeal, which was assigned to the alcaydus of Zaragoza. The plaintiff, however, was determined for reasons unknown to take the judgment to an alfaquinus in Saviñán.
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- The Victors and the VanquishedChristians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300, pp. 347 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004