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Justifying Transgression
Book • 2023
Gijs Kruijtzer examines how people in Persianate and Latin Christian worlds justified behaviors regarded as transgressions between 1200 and 1700, arguing that justifications bridged gaps between legal theory and practice.
The book compares debates over sodomy, idolatry, and usury to show striking similarities across the two traditions and emphasizes variation by topic and time more than by religion.
Kruijtzer introduces four categories of justification—circumvention, exception, compensation, and stridency—and uses poetry, legal texts, and visual arts to trace how communities negotiated divine law.
He highlights the growing sophistication of justifications and the rise of consequentialist reasoning prioritizing outcomes over rigid rule-following.
The work reframes premodern legal flexibility and shared intellectual heritage between Islamic and Christian jurisprudential cultures.
The book compares debates over sodomy, idolatry, and usury to show striking similarities across the two traditions and emphasizes variation by topic and time more than by religion.
Kruijtzer introduces four categories of justification—circumvention, exception, compensation, and stridency—and uses poetry, legal texts, and visual arts to trace how communities negotiated divine law.
He highlights the growing sophistication of justifications and the rise of consequentialist reasoning prioritizing outcomes over rigid rule-following.
The work reframes premodern legal flexibility and shared intellectual heritage between Islamic and Christian jurisprudential cultures.
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Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)
