Across Legal Lines
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Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
Jessica M. Marglin
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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.
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.
Jessica M. Marglin is assistant professor of religion and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. Marglin lives in Los Angeles, CA.
“Jessica Marglin has achieved nothing less than a complete revision of the way that we view the Moroccan legal system in the late nineteenth century from the viewpoint of its Muslim and Jewish clients.”—Susan Gilson Miller, University of California, Davis
“This is an important book that deserves a wide readership. Through a vivid portrait of a Jewish family’s entanglement with the law in pre-colonial Morocco, it puts to rest die-hard tales about colonial modernization and the perennial animosity between Muslims and Jews.”—Francesca Trivellato, author of The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
“With great erudition, insight, and empathy, Marglin dexterously charts a cultural world of precolonial North Africa in which individuals navigate a complex legal landscape. This is an essential book for scholars of North African and Middle Eastern Jewries, Morocco, the cultural history of law, and the legal history of culture.”—Sarah Abrevaya Stein, author of Extraterritorial Dreams
"Jessica Marglin's pathbreaking book sheds dramatic new light on the social, economic, and legal history of nineteenth century Morocco. Marglin deftly reconstructs the everyday ties by which Muslim and Jewish law and litigants accommodated each other in an unequal but integrated society." —James McDougall, Trinity College, University of Oxford
“It is rather unusual for a maiden book by a young scholar to profoundly force a reversal of commonly held concepts in a specific field of studies. . . . This is one of those rare exceptions. . . . Essential.”—Choice
Winner of the American Academy for Jewish Research, 2017 Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize.
The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association’s 2016 Norris and Carol Hundley Award.
Finalist for the Association for Jewish Studies' 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Award in the category of modern Jewish history and culture
Honorable mention for the Association for Legal History's 2017 Peter Gonville Stein Book Prize
Winner of 2017 National Jewish Book Award in category of Sephardic Culture
ISBN: 9780300218466
Publication Date: October 25, 2016
Publication Date: October 25, 2016
336 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
8 b/w illus.
8 b/w illus.
