Amir Toft's talk profiles the education and career of a judge who served for one year around 1580 as judge in the court of Üsküdar, one of the districts of Istanbul. His name and titles—Mevlana Ibrahim Çelebi Efendi el-Galatavi—are known to us only through their appearance in the court register for that year. Apart from … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Gentleman and a Scholar: Profile of an Ottoman Judge in the Late Sixteenth Century

Mohammad Sagha, SHARIAsource Editor and Iran Project Coordinator at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will discuss Ibn al-Munādī’s Kitāb al-Malāḥim and sectarian identity in the ḥadīth corpus of Shīʿī and Sunnī law schools. The role and identity of the Mahdī in early Islamic thought is an important concept shared almost … Continue reading ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Apocalypticism and the Mahdi in Early Islam