The major impact that sexual regulation had on both Islamic and Christian empires was the furthering of religious inequality between Christians, Muslims, and Jews. In Chapter 66 of Olivia Constable’s, Medieval Iberia there is a source that recounts the legal status of Muslims and Jews in Castile, Spain. This source highlights the disparity of equality between Jews and Muslims at least under Christian rule. The source states that when a Moor has sexual intercourse with a Christian women he should be stoned, but is only stoned to death if he has sex with a married Christian woman or has had sex with a common unmarried woman more than
The major impact that sexual regulation had on both Islamic and Christian empires was the furthering of religious inequality between Christians, Muslims, and Jews. In Chapter 66 of Olivia Constable’s, Medieval Iberia there is a source that recounts the legal status of Muslims and Jews in Castile, Spain. This source highlights the disparity of equality between Jews and Muslims at least under Christian rule. The source states that when a Moor has sexual intercourse with a Christian women he should be stoned, but is only stoned to death if he has sex with a married Christian woman or has had sex with a common unmarried woman more than