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Abstract
The social malaise produced by thousands of children born out of wedlock and abandoned is widely understood in the Maghreb. It has opened a breach in traditional Islamic legal discourses as well as social practices regarding the establishment of filiation in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. Analysis of Islamic jurisprudence and opinions, court decisions, and state laws since 1999 shows that the crisis of abandoned children combined with the biological truth revealed by DNA testing have helped produce a paradigm shift. Islamic legal opinions now argue for the need to grant paternal filiation and rights for children born out of wedlock in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Majority juristic opinions do not always determine state legal practices, and contemporary Islamic legal positions are neither monolithic nor static.

This paper examines Mālikī discourses on arbitration and conciliation in a time in which al-Andalus experienced a series of political, intellectual and ideological developments that affected deeply the approach to received wisdom, the judicial policy, and the jurists' self-perception of their role in society as mediators and peace makers. This is illustrated through the works of two of the most relevant Mālikī fuqahā' of the period: al-Bājī (403-474/1013-1081) and Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (450-520/1058-1126). They acknowledge arbitration as a valid conflict resolution strategy, though inferior and subservient to qāḍīship, while restricting, mostly on ethical grounds, the right to resort to the widespread practice of conciliation. ; Peer reviewed

[ES] Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsi ( Badajoz 444/1052- Valencia 521/1127) es conocido básicamente por su actividad en el camppo de la gramática y la lexicografía, y por sus incursiones en la filosofía. También destacó en la ciencia del hadiz, inte-resándose además por cuestiones jurídicas y teológicas. Su obra se ha conserva-do prácticamente completa. Es valorada positivamente por los biográfos y el interés que ha despertado entre los investigadores modernos ha dado lugar a un buen número de ediciones críticas y estudios. Cuando un investigador se acerca por primera vez a la figura de Ibn al-Sid comprueba, sin embargo, que los datos disponibles acerca de su vida son escasos y, en ocasiones, de difícil aprovechamiento, y piensa que probablemente a ello se deba la ausencia de un estudio monográfico sobre su trayectoria vital. Con este artículo se pretende llenar ese vacío. Mediante un examen detenido de las fuentes biográficas se pasa revista a los orígenes, formación, campos de actuación, discípulos y obras de Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsi. Asimismo se intenta fijar la cronología de sus múltiples desplazamientos e indagar en sus motivaciones, para terminar haciendo una valoración de su contribución general a la cultura de al-Andalus. La de Ibn al-Sid fue una vida a caballo entre dos épocas durante las cuales el poeta y secretario real, que viaja de taifa en taifa en busca de acomodo, tiene que adaptarse, no sin dificultades, a un nuevo contexto político y cultural, tras la conquista almorávide. ; [EN] Ibn al-Síd al-Batalyawsi (Badajoz 44411052-Valencia 52111127) is known mainly as a grammarian, a lexicographer and, though less so, as a philosopher. He was also a preeminent traditionist with interests in jurisprudence and theology, and enjoyed a career as a court-poet and secretary. Virtually al1 of his works have survived. They were praised by medieval biographers and have attracted the attention of modem scholars, so that we have quite a number of critica1 editions and studies of their. By contrast, we have few data on Ibn al-Sid's life, and those few are difficult to use. This is probably why there are so few studies devoted to his career, despite its important to an understanding of his literary production. This article aims at filling the gap. 1 use biographical sources in order to establish Ibn al-Sid's origins? education, career, pupils and writings. 1 also attempt to establish where ibn al-Si'd lived, and when, in different parts of al-Andalus, in the changing political and cultural context following the AlmoraGid conquest. Finally 1 offer an assessment of Ibn al-Sid's general contribution to Andalusi intellectual history. ; Peer reviewed