Islamic Law Blog

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Impaired Foundations, Perduring Law: The Meaning and Aims of Māwardī’s al-Aḥkām al-sulṭāniyya” (Islamic Law and Society), Daniel Lav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) notes that Māwardī’s “treatise aimed at legitimation of contemporary governmental structure and practice by subsuming them under the legal structure of the historical caliphate, as argued by H.A.R. Gibb. The present article… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Spaces for Women in Mosques: Past, Present and Future” (Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture), Bernard O’Kane (American University in Cairo) “explores first the historical debates around the presence of women in mosques, and the extent, if any, to which these have been reflected in mosque design, past and present” and asks “What were the… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts” (Comparative Studies in Society and History), Tommaso Stefini (Sabancı Üniversitesi) “examines the interrelations between the political economies of the Ottoman Empire and the administration of justice for European merchants in Ottoman cities during the seventeenth century. By focusing on the sultan’s… CONTINUE READING