Beyond State and Peasant: The Egalitarian Import of Juristic Revisions of Agrarian and Administrative Contracts in the Early Mamlūk Period
In this article I argue that Shāfiʿī and Ḥanbalī jurists forged an agricultural policy beginning in the early Mamlūk period that aimed at securing the rights of peasants. They did so by introducing radical and systematic changes in the doctrines of their schools, applying the highest catégories of l...
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| description | In this article I argue that Shāfiʿī and Ḥanbalī jurists forged an agricultural policy beginning in the early Mamlūk period that aimed at securing the rights of peasants. They did so by introducing radical and systematic changes in the doctrines of their schools, applying the highest catégories of legal reasoning (ijtihād). An analysis of Shafiʿī and Ḥanbalī legal texts reveals that jurists advanced new interpretations of contracts of sharecropping and iqṭāḤ that systematically promoted the interests of landless peasants over the elite. The legal revisions were predicated on developments in the land assignment/taxation System of the early 8th/14th Century. Ultimately, the jurists' strategy exploited state innovations in the interest of advancing social and economic objectives that were independent of any centralized politicai authority or state institution. |
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