In September, we look back at some of our most read essays published in the past year as well as the roundtables we convened in the past that attracted a lot of interest. Each week, we focus on essays and posts that touch on a similar topic relating to Islamic law. This week, we focus on Medieval Islamic legal documents. As the essays below from the past year that have been widely read and shared demonstrate, Medieval Islamic legal documents provide an indispensable source for reconstructing Islamic legal history and offer broader insights into questions around methodology and how to read historical documents.
- Marina Rustow, Are Medieval Arabic Judicial Documents as Opaque as They Look?
- Amel Bensalim, Getting to know iqrārs
- Athina Pfeiffer, Documents of Sale as Living Objects