- In “Islamic Law as Hermeneutic: Developments within Traditionalist Islam in Indonesia” (Southwestern Journal of International Law 29 (2023)), Mark Cammack (Southwestern Law School) “explores the seemingly anomalous circumstance that a large share of Indonesia’s most capable scholars and the country’s most progressive interpreters of Islamic law come from a traditionalist educational background focused on the classical Islamic sciences and emphasizing rote learning and unquestioned deference to the authority of the great jurists of the past.”
- In “Reserved Abundance: State Granaries of Early Modern Istanbul” (YouTube) Namik Erkal (TED University) “discusses Ottoman Istanbul’s state granaries, using primary textual and visual sources to trace the type’s evolution from modified, repurposed buildings (e.g., shipsheds and bathhouses) to purpose-built storehouses,” all based on his recently published book on the same subject.