Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, a longtime friend to the Program in Islamic Law and a member emeritus of our advisory and editorial boards, sadly passed away on July 30, 2024. … Continue reading In Memoriam I: Roy Parviz Mottahedeh
In August and September, we look back at some of our most read essays and roundtable contributions published in the past year that attracted a lot of interest. Each week, … Continue reading Best of 2023-2024 in Review: Roundtable on Ottoman Land Law
In August and September, we look back at some of our most read essays and roundtable contributions published in the past year that attracted a lot of interest. Each week, … Continue reading Best of 2023-2024 in Review: Colonialism and Islamic Law
In August, we look back at some of our most read essays and roundtable contributions published in the past year that attracted a lot of interest. Each week, we focus … Continue reading Best of 2023-2024 in Review: A Recension of the Muwaṭṭaʾ
In August, we look back at some of our most read essays and roundtable contributions published in the past year that attracted a lot of interest. Each week, we focus … Continue reading Best of 2023-2024 in Review: Islamic Law Collections
In August, we look back at some of our most read essays and roundtable contributions published in the past year that attracted a lot of interest. Each week, we focus … Continue reading Best of 2023-2024 in Review: Past, Present, and Future of Sharīʿa
By Fatma Gül Karagöz This is the fourth essay in a series of essays entitled "When usufruct became a credit source: The contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)." … Continue reading The road to the 1858 Ottoman Land Code: Theory and practice
By Fatma Gül Karagöz This is the third essay in a series of essays entitled "When usufruct became a credit source: The contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)." … Continue reading The practice of tefviz bi’l-vefa (transfer with resumption) on miri (state-owned) land in 17th-century Istanbul courts
By Fatma Gül Karagöz This is the second essay in a series of essays entitled "When usufruct became a credit source: The contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)." … Continue reading Ferağ bi’l-vefa (transfer with resumption) and mortgage of miri (state-owned) land in seventeenth-century fatwās
By Fatma Gül Karagöz* This is the first essay in a series of essays entitled "When usufruct became a credit source: The contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)." … Continue reading Introduction: How to interpret the contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)?
