THE EFFECT OF MILITARY CONQUEST ON PRIVATE OWNERSHIP IN JEWISH AND ISLAMIC LAW

This article presents the legal outlooks of two fundamental religious judicial systems-the halakha of Judaism and the shari'a of Islam-on the effect of war on private ownership. Specifically, we address the situation in which the conquered inhabitants are Jews or Muslims and halakha or shari�...

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Nebentitel:SYMPOSIUM: GLOBAL LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON ELDER CARE
VerfasserInnen: Gilat, Israel Zvi (VerfasserIn) ; Jabareen, Amal Mohammad (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Univ. Press [2016]
In: Journal of law and religion
Jahr: 2016, Band: 31, Heft: 2, Seiten: 227-260
weitere Schlagwörter:B Halakha
B conquest by war
B Shari'a
B military conquest
B Islamic Law
B Jewish Law
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Zusammenfassung:This article presents the legal outlooks of two fundamental religious judicial systems-the halakha of Judaism and the shari'a of Islam-on the effect of war on private ownership. Specifically, we address the situation in which the conquered inhabitants are Jews or Muslims and halakha or shari'a are the legal systems of their religions, respectively, but the conqueror is a nonbeliever or secular sovereign. Such situations evoke the following questions: To what extent the transfer of ownership by the conquering sovereign is recognized by the religious laws of the conquered population? May a member of the conquered religion acquire property that was seized by the nonbeliever sovereign from a member of the conquered religion? Is transfer of ownership by virtue of conquest permanent or reversible, so once the conquest ends, ownership reverts to the pre-conquest owner? Various approaches to those questions within each of two religious legal systems are presented. Some of the similarities and the differences between halakha and shari'a are pointed out.
ISSN:2163-3088
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2016.22