Everything from reviews of recent publications and cases to reflections on the book-writing and tenure process for scholars in Islamic law. Junior and senior scholars known in the field of Islamic legal studies are invited to become guest editors of the blog for one-month terms. The posts do not undergo editorial review, and offer room for these scholars to content and context on Islamic law, and more.
Camilo Gómez-Rivas is associate professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Almoravid Maghrib (Arc Humanities Press, 2023) and Law and … Continue reading Welcome to our November Guest Blogger: Camilo Gómez-Rivas
Thank you, Zahir Bhalloo, for joining us as guest blog editor in October. In case you missed his essays, here they are: New Light on Persian Fatwā Writing from Medieval … Continue reading Thank you, Zahir Bhalloo!
By Zahir Bhalloo* In this third and final essay, I provide a commentary on one of the Persian fatwā papers from the NLI Afghan Genizah collection (for the text, translation … Continue reading Learning from the document: Part 2
By Zahir Bhalloo In this second essay, I will examine one Persian fatwā paper from the National Library of Israel (NLI) Afghan Genizah collection. It measures 19.3 x 13.8 cm, … Continue reading Learning from the document: Part 1
By Zahir Bhalloo Documents that record the legal opinion, called in Arabic fatwā (pl. fatāwā), of Muslim jurists or muftīs have a long history of over a thousand years in … Continue reading New Light on Persian Fatwā Writing from Medieval Islamic Khurāsān
Zahir Bhalloo completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford on the practice of Islamic law in early modern Iran in 2013. Since then he has carried out post-doctoral research … Continue reading Welcome to our October Guest Blogger: Zahir Bhalloo
Thank you, Fatma Gül Karagöz, for joining us as guest blog editor in June. In case you missed her essays, here they are: Introduction: How to interpret the contract of … Continue reading Thank you, Fatma Gül Karagöz!
By Fatma Gül Karagöz This is the third essay in a series of essays entitled "When usufruct became a credit source: The contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)." … Continue reading The practice of tefviz bi’l-vefa (transfer with resumption) on miri (state-owned) land in 17th-century Istanbul courts
By Fatma Gül Karagöz This is the second essay in a series of essays entitled "When usufruct became a credit source: The contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)." … Continue reading Ferağ bi’l-vefa (transfer with resumption) and mortgage of miri (state-owned) land in seventeenth-century fatwās
By Fatma Gül Karagöz* This is the first essay in a series of essays entitled "When usufruct became a credit source: The contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)." … Continue reading Introduction: How to interpret the contract of the transfer with resumption (ferağ bi’l-vefa)?
