By Amel Bensalim Professor Marina Rustow's note: "Having been asked twice now to contribute to the ILB, I’ve been making my way into the corpus of Islamic notarial documents preserved … Continue reading Getting to know iqrārs
Getting to know iqrārs
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS While attention has been paid to Iran's morality police due to the recent protests there, scholars have also written about how the institution of the … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Why I No Longer Use the Term “Qāḍī-Court Documents”
By Marina Rustow I came into my graduate seminar on Arabic legal documents with some experience in paleography and diplomatics, but vanishingly little knowledge of the material I was going … Continue reading Why I No Longer Use the Term “Qāḍī-Court Documents”
Are Medieval Arabic Judicial Documents as Opaque as They Look?
By Marina Rustow Legal documents have survived from the medieval Islamic world in considerable quantity, but the mystery of their quotidian production and use abides. The mystery concerns personnel and … Continue reading Are Medieval Arabic Judicial Documents as Opaque as They Look?
How to do things with translation: Translation as archives of mobility
By Iza Hussin The opening pages of KPG7514.M35 1837,[1] the text that forms the subject of the first blog entry, and texts like it, have given scholars a better sense … Continue reading How to do things with translation: Translation as archives of mobility
How to do things with translation: ‘Personal law’
By Iza Hussin Whereas the first of these posts focussed on translation between one text and another, and the second on one set of vocabularies to another, this third post … Continue reading How to do things with translation: ‘Personal law’
How to do things with translation: ‘Religion’
By Iza Hussin Having focussed in the first blog post on a Malay world text and its internal translations of concepts relating to law in Malay, Arabic, and English, this … Continue reading How to do things with translation: ‘Religion’
How to do things with translation: ‘Law’ in the Malay world
By Iza Hussin Kitab Undang-Undang Qanun Yang Dipakai Dalam Negeri Johor, 1837 As last week's blog entry briefly introduced, these are the opening pages of KPG7514.M35 1837, a Malay text … Continue reading How to do things with translation: ‘Law’ in the Malay world
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "The Islamic Republic [of Iran] has hanged a second protester in less than a week in public on Monday after charging him with killing two … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Judicial Crisis in Damascus on the Eve of Baybars’s Reform: The Case of the Minor Orphan Girl (651–55/1253–57)" (Islamic Law and Society (March 23, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup