Courts&Canons (CnC) is a suite of AI and other data science tools that facilitate research and insights into Islamic law and the motivating values behind it, across space and time. These tools allow researchers to organize and combine sources for legal canons, fatwās, and reports of early cases with key biographies of jurists and judges who produced them on a single online platform from all schools of Islamic law, with a focus on Islam’s generative ‘founding period’ (1st–5th/7th–11th centuries), and they also facilitate identifying and ‘meme-mapping’ canons, forging connections between canons and between other named entities (authors, titles, places), and collaborative research among scholars seeking to answer major questions in Islamic law and history. We experiment with ways in which the data science tools we are developing can aid in that research.
By Issam Eido This is part one in a series of four posts on Ḥanafī criteria for using ḥadīth in the ‘courts and canons’ of early Islamic law. In this series of four … Continue reading Lived or Non-Lived Ḥadīth? Content vs. Narrator Criteria in Early Ḥanafī Law
By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-ʿAlāʾī, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl. Al-Majmūʿ al-mudhhab fī qawāʿid al-madhhab. Edited by Majīd ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī and Aḥmad Khudayrʿ Abbās. 2 vols. Amman: Dār ʿImār, 1425/2004. General Description: … Continue reading The Golden Collection of the Law’s Maxims
