Workshop: Intertextuality in Islamic and Jewish Law, June 21-23, 2022, University of Muenster

From the organizers: Our workshop aims at exploring different kinds of intertextuality and focusses, on the one hand, on the functions that intertextual references fulfill in Jewish legal texts such as responsa, Codes, and Classic Rabbinic literature, and works of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), responsa (fatāwā), legal treatises (rasāʾil) and commentaries (šurūḥ). On the other hand, it is intended to analyze how legal … Continue reading Workshop: Intertextuality in Islamic and Jewish Law, June 21-23, 2022, University of Muenster

Call for Papers: The XI Islamic Legal Studies Conference, University of Muenster, June 30, 2024

ISILS invites paper proposals for its eleventh Islamic Legal Studies conference, to be held at the University of Münster, 22-24 May 2025. The Third International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held at Harvard University Law School in May 2000, was devoted to the madhhab. 25 years later, we want to revisit this topic: what impact has the scholarly debate … Continue reading Call for Papers: The XI Islamic Legal Studies Conference, University of Muenster, June 30, 2024