American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Legal Cultures in the Early Modern World: Perspectives from Islamicate South Asia,” November 6, 2021 @ 4:15 – 5:45 pm

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM

Legal Cultures in the Early Modern World: Perspectives from Islamicate South Asia (Poydras)

Chair: Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto (bhavani.raman@utoronto.ca), Commentator: Naveena Naqvi, University of British Columbia, (naveena.naqvi@ubc.ca)

Shounak Ghosh, Vanderbilt University (shounak.ghosh@vanderbilt.edu)
Diplomatic Protocols and Codes of Ethical Conduct in the Early Modern Persian Cosmopolis

Anurag Advani, University of California, Berkeley (anurag_advani@berkeley.edu) Madness in the Fatāwa-yi ‘Alamgīrī: Insanity and Islamic Law during Aurangzeb’s reign

Sonia Wigh, University of Exeter (sw634@exeter.ac.uk)
Narratives of Conception: Situating Midwives in the Legal Landscape of Early Modern South Asia

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