By Marion Katz (New York University) Perhaps more than any other genre of academic writing, translations of primary sources raise questions about audience and purpose. In a Venn diagram of … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Who Are We Writing for When We Translate Classical Texts?
:: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Al-Shāfiʿī’s Recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ
By Ahmed El Shamsy (The University of Chicago) The peripatetic Meccan jurist Muḥammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820) studied with Mālik in Medina as a precocious youth. He reportedly memorized Mālik’s … Continue reading :: Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable :: Al-Shāfiʿī’s Recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ
Recent Scholarship: Fadel and Monette on the English Translation of the Muwatta’ of Imam Malik b. Anas
"Introduction to the English Translation of the Muwatta' of Imam Malik b. Anas, Recension of Yahya b. Yahya al-Laythi (Royal Moroccan Edition, 2013)," Mālik b. Anas, al-Muwaṭṭaʾ -- Recension of Yaḥyā b. … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Fadel and Monette on the English Translation of the Muwatta’ of Imam Malik b. Anas
Recent Scholarship: Gómez-Rivas on the Development of Legal Institutions in the Far Maghrib
Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids: The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd by Camilo Gómez-Rivas. From the publisher: "Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids. The Fatwās … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Gómez-Rivas on the Development of Legal Institutions in the Far Maghrib
Al-Qarāfī on the Importance of Legal Maxims and Distinctions in Jurisprudence
By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-Qarāfī, Shihāb al-Dīn. Kitāb al-furūq aw Anwār al-burūq fī anwāʾ al-furūq. 3rd ed. Edited by Muḥammad Sarrāj and ʿAlī Jumuʿa. 2 vols. Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2010. General … Continue reading Al-Qarāfī on the Importance of Legal Maxims and Distinctions in Jurisprudence
Analysis: The Case of the Christian Who Wanted to be Executed
By Dr. Maribel Fierro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas—Spanish National Research Council) This anecdote offers insight into the historical role of judges during a period of religious dissent in the … Continue reading Analysis: The Case of the Christian Who Wanted to be Executed
Historical Primary Sources: The Case of the Christian Who Wanted to be Executed
Cases of religious dissent in courts in the Andalusian Umayyad Caliphate provide insight into how one Islamic judicial system established procedures protecting non-Muslim constituents without undermining the sovereignty of the … Continue reading Historical Primary Sources: The Case of the Christian Who Wanted to be Executed
Excerpt: Book Review of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
In her book review of Darío Fernández-Morera's The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, Sarah J. Pearce stresses the need for expertise and engagement with primary sources when analyzing topics such as Islamic … Continue reading Excerpt: Book Review of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise