By Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar This is a summary of the lecture by Prof. Maribel Fierro entitled “Fatāwā Compilations: Exploring a legal genre in the Islamic West,” delivered on June 30, … Continue reading Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres: “Fatāwā Compilations: Exploring a legal genre in the Islamic West” by Prof. Maribel Fierro
Maribel Fierro (CSIC-Madrid) „Fatāwa Compilations. Exploring a legal genre in the Islamic West“ to be held on June 30, Wednesday at 12pm (EST), 6pm (Münster) 7pm (Istanbul) via … Continue reading Monthly Lecture: Maribel Fierro “Fatāwa Compilations: Exploring a legal genre in the Islamic West” June 30, 2021 @ 12:00 pm
The Ottoman History Podcast's series on "The Making of the Islamic World" is now available online in its entirety. The project is a ten-part series consisting of interviews with a … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
D. Fairchild Ruggles’ Tree of Pearls The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) provides insight into the remarkable life of Shajar al-Durr, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Maribel Fierro This case, recorded by Ibn Ḥārith al-Khushanī, concerns an accusation of apostasy during the reign of the Cordoban Umayyad emir Muḥammad (r. 238–273/852–886). A vizier conspires to … Continue reading Analysis :: The Judge, the Vizier, and the Ruler
By Dr. Maribel Fierro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas—Spanish National Research Council) This anecdote offers insight into the historical role of judges during a period of religious dissent in the … Continue reading Analysis: The Case of the Christian Who Wanted to be Executed
Cases of religious dissent in courts in the Andalusian Umayyad Caliphate provide insight into how one Islamic judicial system established procedures protecting non-Muslim constituents without undermining the sovereignty of the … Continue reading Historical Primary Sources: The Case of the Christian Who Wanted to be Executed
Guest contributor Maribel Fierro examines a scene of heterodoxy in the recently published English translation of The Ultimate Ambition. Translated from Arabic into English for the first time in full by Elias Muhanna … Continue reading Heterodoxy Among Muslim Judges: On Attempts at Jokes and Judicial Constraints
