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
The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of panels from the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) 2024 Annual Meeting schedule that are related to Islamic law and … Continue reading Islamic Law at MESA 2024! (A PIL Guide)
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Dark Deeds, Broken Bodies: Medieval Islamic Narratives of Violence against Corpses" (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists 32), Taryn Marashi (Augsburg University) … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations from the American Society for Legal History's (ASLH) 2024 Annual Meeting schedule that are related to Islamic law, … Continue reading Islamic Law at ASLH 2024! (A PIL Guide)
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
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Society of the Righteous: Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania (Indiana University Press, 2024) Kimberly T. Wortmann (Wake Forest University) argues that "[a]lthough the … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs) [in Malaysia], Datuk Dr Mohd Na'im Mokhtar, has clarified that the fatwas (edicts) enacted under Mufti … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Veiling Laws Throughout Iranian History: The Relationship to Religion, Before and During Islamic Law" (SSRN, September 20, 2024), Nicolas Garon (Southern University Law Center) questions … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
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
