Minding their place : space and religious hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim's Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma / by Antonia Bosanquet.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma : Text and content: 1. Author, text and reception -- 2. Historical background -- 3. Literary precedents -- 4. Structure and method -- Part II. Space in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma: 5. Separate space -- 6. The relational space of personal interaction -- 7. The relational space of public performance -- 8. The contested space of non-Muslim children -- Conclusion: Space, religious difference and Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma -- Bibliography.

"Antonia Bosanquet's Minding Their Place is the first full-length study of Ibn al-Qayyim's (d. 751/1350) collection of rulings relating to non-Muslim subjects, Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma. It offers a detailed study of the structure, content and authorial method of the work, arguing that it represents the author's personal composition rather than a synthesis of medieval rulings, as it has often been understood. On this basis, Antonia Bosanquet analyses how Ibn al-Qayyim's presentation of rulings in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma uses space to convey his view of religious hierarchy. She considers his answer to the question of whether non-Muslims have a place in the Abode of Islam, how this is defined and how his definition contributes to Ibn al-Qayyim's broader theological world-view"--

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