ʿUmar ii and the Prohibition of Ṭilāʾ and Nabīdh

Following a brief introduction, this article has two parts and an appendix. In the first part, I examine the passage prohibiting intoxicating ṭilāʾ (cooked grape juice) in the “fiscal rescript” attributed to ʿUmar ii (d. 101/720) by Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (d. 214/829). I argue that this passage’s core go...

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Auteur principal: Harvey, Elon (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2023
Dans: Islamic law and society
Année: 2023, Volume: 30, Numéro: 4, Pages: 329-391
Sujets non-standardisés:B Earthquake
B fiscal rescript
B ʿUmar I
B Christian chroniclers
B Alcohol
B Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam
B isnād analysis
B rizq
B nabīdh
B ṭilāʾ
B ʿUmar ii
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Résumé:Following a brief introduction, this article has two parts and an appendix. In the first part, I examine the passage prohibiting intoxicating ṭilāʾ (cooked grape juice) in the “fiscal rescript” attributed to ʿUmar ii (d. 101/720) by Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (d. 214/829). I argue that this passage’s core goes back to an edict of ʿUmar ii that is no longer extant. I suggest that ʿUmar ii issued the prohibition following an earthquake that devastated Syria because he feared that the drinkers of intoxicants would cause a similar catastrophe to befall all Muslims. I situate ʿUmar ii’s prohibition within the early legal discussions about ṭilāʾ. In the second part, I analyze a group of edicts prohibiting nabīdh (date wine) that are attributed to ʿUmar ii. I conclude that the edicts are pseudepigraphical. In the appendix, I trace the transmission history of a tradition attributed to al-Shaʿbī about a missive of Umar I concerning ṭilāʾ.
ISSN:1568-5195
Contient:Enthalten in: Islamic law and society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685195-bja10041