Thank you to Marion Katz and Ahmed El Shamsy for joining us as guest blog editors throughout the month of December. In case you missed any of their posts, here they … Continue reading Thank you, Marion Katz and Ahmed El Shamsy!
The Making of a Colonial Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria
[This post is a sequel to part 1, addressing secularism and Nigeria's colonial legacy] Situated within a broader research project aimed at disentangling the complex struggles over religion-state relations in … Continue reading The Making of a Colonial Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria
Program in Islamic Law Celebrates Its New English Translation of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ
Earlier this fall, the Program in Islamic Law published the eighth volume in its Harvard Series on Islamic Law, an English translation of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Royal Moroccan Edition, The Recension … Continue reading Program in Islamic Law Celebrates Its New English Translation of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ
:: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Journey of the Muwaṭṭaʾ in different periods of the history of South Asia: Shāh Walīyullāh’s Pursuit of Mālik
By Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame) It is one of those twists of history that in a region famed for hosting the largest number of followers of the Ḥanafī … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Journey of the Muwaṭṭaʾ in different periods of the history of South Asia: Shāh Walīyullāh’s Pursuit of Mālik
:: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Mālik, the Muwaṭṭa’, and Sunni Identity
By Jonathan Brown (Georgetown University) I once found myself trapped on a phone call with an exercised adherent of the Ḥanafī school of Islamic law who made it clear that … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Mālik, the Muwaṭṭa’, and Sunni Identity
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Ashraf Booley argues that Tunisia should be seen as the vanguard of women-friendly legislation in the Arab world in "Progressive Realisation of Muslim Family Law: The Case of Tunisia," Islamic … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
:: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Introduction
Mohammad Fadel (Professor of Law, University of Toronto) and Connell Monette (Vice President of Academic Affairs, American Academy Casablanca) organized a PIL Forum Roundtable on the recent publication of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Introduction
:: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: The Handmaiden’s Tale
By Kecia Ali (Boston University) As someone who researches and teaches about early Islamic law, I have longed for a translation of the Muwaṭṭaʾ which renders legal terminology with consistency and … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: The Handmaiden’s Tale
:: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: The Virtues of Translation
By Jocelyn Hendrickson (The University of Alberta) As scholars of Islamic legal history, one of the most enjoyable questions we ask ourselves from time to time is, “Should I acquire that … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: The Virtues of Translation
:: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Medina, the Mashriq, and the Maghrib in the recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʼ by the Cordoban Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī*
By Maribel Fierro (National High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Spain) Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʼ in the recension by the Cordoban Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī includes many references to Medina.[1] This is hardly … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Medina, the Mashriq, and the Maghrib in the recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʼ by the Cordoban Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī*