Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Legal Canons—In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons, 1265–1519" (Villanova Law Review 66, no. … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

In her book review of Mohammed Fadel and Connell Monette's translation of Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, Adday Hernández (ILC-CSIS) welcomes the translation and describes it as a work that will become "one of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Ibāḍism in the Medieval Sahel

By Kristina L. Richardson For centuries the Sunnī Mālikī madhhab has predominated among Muslims of northern and western Africa, but before the 12th century, Shīʿī, Khārijī, and Ibāḍī legal schools … Continue reading Ibāḍism in the Medieval Sahel

Translations of Three Tenth/Sixteenth Century Egyptian Ottoman Court Decisions

By Omar Farahat This is the first of two posts that discuss sixteenth-century Egyptian Ottoman court records. In this post, I offer translations of three decisions and briefly explain their … Continue reading Translations of Three Tenth/Sixteenth Century Egyptian Ottoman Court Decisions

Recent Scholarship: Gómez-Rivas on the Development of Legal Institutions in the Far Maghrib

Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids: The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd by Camilo Gómez-Rivas. From the publisher: "Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids. The Fatwās … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Gómez-Rivas on the Development of Legal Institutions in the Far Maghrib