::Roundtable:: Legal Translation between Empires: The Case of Çiftlik in Serbia
By Jelena Radovanović In the cold early months of 1880, rumors spread that the government of the young Serbian Principality was preparing a law that would once and for all … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Legal Translation between Empires: The Case of Çiftlik in Serbia
::Roundtable:: When Ottoman Land Law became Greek Law: The case of a land sale in Attica
By Fatma Gül Karagöz* In 1831, Halil Bey and his brothers sold a plot of land in Attica to Count Baggiari, an Italian, therefore at that time a subject of … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: When Ottoman Land Law became Greek Law: The case of a land sale in Attica
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::Roundtable:: Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States
By Fatma Gül Karagöz* What happens to land and property relations when a new administration obtains the dominion of a territory? I became interested in this question a couple of … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States
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Thank you, Ovamir Anjum!
Thank you, Ovamir Anjum, for joining us as guest blog editor in January. In case you missed his essays, here they are: The Endangered Sharīʿa The Shape of Islamic History … Continue reading Thank you, Ovamir Anjum!
Against Impossibility
By Ovamir Anjum The conviction that the sharīʿa has been slain by modernity could be read as the resuscitation of the early classical debate on the sharīʿa’s fatigue. Yet it … Continue reading Against Impossibility