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Biographical noteAlan Verskin received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has taught at Princeton University, Macalester College and Columbia University. He is presently an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Rhode Island. Most recently, he has published Oppressed in the Land? Fatwas on Muslims Living under Non-Muslim Rule from the Middle Ages to the Present (Markus Wiener Publishers, 2013).ReadershipSpecialists in Islamic law and historians of medieval IberiaTable of contentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Concept of Hijra (Migration) in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib2. The Status of the Mudéjar Religious Leadership According to Mālikī Law3. Life, Family and Property in the Abode of War4. European Rule in the 19th-Century Maghrib and the Reception of Reconquista-Era LawConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndexhttp://www.brill.com/products/book/islamic-law-and-crisis-spanish-reconquista