Disputes and Settlements in the Mediterranean: Peace-Making in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Contexts, 16th-19th Centuries

This collective volume represents a significant contribution to the critical and historiographical debate on the three major religious and cultural traditions of the Mediterranean - Christianity, Islam, and Judaism - analyzed through the lens of judicial practices rooted in peace-making. Its aim is to explore the connections between religious frameworks and compositional methods of social conflict resolution, both within each monotheistic tradition and in contexts where these traditions interacted or coexisted, whether peacefully or in tension.A flourishing historiography on Western Europe has investigated the relationships between state-administered (hegemonic) justice - typically associated with the repression of crime through judicial and tribunal systems - and so-called community justice (negotiated), encompassing practices such as arbitration, settlements, agreements, pardons, and conciliatory resolutions, while emphasizing their grounding in religious beliefs and institutions.How