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alusur-8430	Ballan, Mohamad	Luke B. Yarbrough, Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought	2020-10-01	7	.pdf	application/pdf	4478	325	67	Throughout the chapter, Yarbrough highlights how Muslim jurists developed diverse rationales for limiting, discouraging, or prohibiting the employment of non-Muslim officials; how these rationales were frequently repeated and developed during moments of tension with states or non-Muslim elites; and how jurists sought, above all, to mediate between their madhhab traditions and contemporary exigencies. Chapter 2 (“Preludes to the Discourse: Non-Muslim Officials and Late Ancient Antecedents”) presents a synchronic study of non-Muslim officials and the reasons for their employment while surveying late antique discourses around dissenting officials, particularly surviving writings on non-Christian officials in the Eastern R o m a n E m p	cache/alusur-8430.pdf	txt/alusur-8430.txt