Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300218466)

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived

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.

Author: Jessica M. Marglin
ISBN-10: 030021846X
ISBN-13: 9780300218466
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2017