Field Guide Roundup

  • “Quantifying Islamic Law in the Modern State” uses quantitative methods to “reconstruct” Islamic legal tradition through almost 800 shari’a court cases in Morocco from 1921–1957—the colonial period and the last decades prior to state codification of shari’a. The project focused on quantifying the frequency of over 200 jurists that judges of this era mentioned in support of their rulings, the data for which is included in the website appendix.

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