SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press, 2024), Sherman A. Jackson (University of Southern California) argues that "'Religion,' in Islam was not identical to Islam's … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Women's Rights and Duties in Classical Legal Literature" (in The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (Oxford University Press, 2024)), Mariam Sheibani (Brandeis University) … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Professor Radwan El Sayed (Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities) reviews Intisar A. Rabb (Harvard Law School) and Abigail Krasner Balbale's (New York University) edited … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
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
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Canonizing al-Furūq: Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī’s Text on Legal Maxims" (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, June 7, 2024), Elias G. Saba (Grinnell College) discusses Shihāb … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
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)?
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Relationships Rights and Legal Pluralism: The Inadequacy of Marriage Laws in Europe (Routledge, 2025) (forthcoming), edited by Mateusz Stępień and Anna Juzaszek (Jagiellonian University) "brings … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Hassan S. Khalilieh Nautical issues are treated by Islamic law from two distinct perspectives governed by two different systems. The first is public international law, which covers themes related … Continue reading Two Tenth-Century C.E. Islamic Treatises on Admiralty and Maritime Laws from the Mediterranean Sea and Western Indian Ocean
