Dekan Lā Ripōrṫ: Familiar genres, unfamiliar stories

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By Elizabeth Lhost For my final essay this month, I’ve selected the Deccan Law Reports for analysis. Law reports are a familiar genre for many legal historians, and the Deccan … Continue reading Dekan Lā Ripōrṫ: Familiar genres, unfamiliar stories

How to do things with translation: Translation as archives of mobility

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By Iza Hussin The opening pages of KPG7514.M35 1837,[1] the text that forms the subject of the first blog entry, and texts like it, have given scholars a better sense … Continue reading How to do things with translation: Translation as archives of mobility

How to do things with translation: ‘Personal law’

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By Iza Hussin Whereas the first of these posts focussed on translation between one text and another, and the second on one set of vocabularies to another, this third post … Continue reading How to do things with translation: ‘Personal law’

How to do things with translation: ‘Religion’

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By Iza Hussin Having focussed in the first blog post on a Malay world text and its internal translations of concepts relating to law in Malay, Arabic, and English, this … Continue reading How to do things with translation: ‘Religion’

How to do things with translation: ‘Law’ in the Malay world

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By Iza Hussin Kitab Undang-Undang Qanun Yang Dipakai Dalam Negeri Johor, 1837 As last week's blog entry briefly introduced, these are the opening pages of KPG7514.M35 1837, a Malay text … Continue reading How to do things with translation: ‘Law’ in the Malay world

Introduction: How to do things with translation

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By Iza Hussin This series of guest blog posts explores avenues for considering translation as a problematic through which to engage Islamic law in global circulation. This Introduction,[1] and the … Continue reading Introduction: How to do things with translation

Online Talk: Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity by Iza Hussin, Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), November 23, 2020 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm

Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity Translation encapsulates a series of distinct moves in the study of Islamic law, each with its own ethical and methodological implications. These implications are … Continue reading Online Talk: Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity by Iza Hussin, Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), November 23, 2020 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm