By Camilo Gómez-Rivas This is the second in a two-part series on Law under the Almoravids. The first was a reflection on legal texts as sources for writing social and … Continue reading International Law under the Almoravids
By Camilo Gómez-Rivas This is the first in a two-part series on Law under the Almoravids. The second essay takes up the development of diplomacy and international negotiation. I came … Continue reading Law under the Almoravids and What Questions You Can Ask Legal Texts
Camilo Gómez-Rivas is associate professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Almoravid Maghrib (Arc Humanities Press, 2023) and Law and … Continue reading Welcome to our November Guest Blogger: Camilo Gómez-Rivas
By Zahir Bhalloo* In this third and final essay, I provide a commentary on one of the Persian fatwā papers from the NLI Afghan Genizah collection (for the text, translation … Continue reading Learning from the document: Part 2
By Zahir Bhalloo In this second essay, I will examine one Persian fatwā paper from the National Library of Israel (NLI) Afghan Genizah collection. It measures 19.3 x 13.8 cm, … Continue reading Learning from the document: Part 1
By Zahir Bhalloo Documents that record the legal opinion, called in Arabic fatwā (pl. fatāwā), of Muslim jurists or muftīs have a long history of over a thousand years in … Continue reading New Light on Persian Fatwā Writing from Medieval Islamic Khurāsān
Zahir Bhalloo completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford on the practice of Islamic law in early modern Iran in 2013. Since then he has carried out post-doctoral research … Continue reading Welcome to our October Guest Blogger: Zahir Bhalloo
***Update: A memorial service honoring Professor Mottahedeh will be held on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 2:00 PM at the Memorial Church, Harvard University. For further details, please see here.*** … Continue reading In Memoriam IV: Roy Parviz Mottahedeh
***Update: A memorial service honoring Professor Mottahedeh will be held on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 2:00 PM at the Memorial Church, Harvard University. For further details, please see here.*** … Continue reading In Memoriam III: Roy Parviz Mottahedeh
***Update: A memorial service honoring Professor Mottahedeh will be held on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 2:00 PM at the Memorial Church, Harvard University. For further details, please see here.*** … Continue reading In Memoriam II: Roy Parviz Mottahedeh
