SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In episode 521 of the Ottoman History Podcast, entitled "Islam and Science Fiction" and hosted by Shireen Hamza (Harvard University), Jörg Matthias Determann (Virginia Commonwealth … Continue reading 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
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Sultan" (Bloomsbury 2021), Yuval Ben-Bassat (University of Haifa) discusses the institution of petitioning the Ottoman … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar This is a summary of the lecture by Prof. Christian Müller entitled “Sijills and Transformations of Qāḍī Documents in Islamic Law” delivered at 12 noon (EST), … Continue reading Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres: “Sijills and Transformations of Qāḍī Documents in Islamic Law” by Prof. Christian Müller
In "Semantic Mapping of An Ottoman Fetva Compilation: EBUSSUUD Efendi’s Jurisprudence through a Computational Lens" (Journal of Islamic Legal Studies 32, no. 1 (2021)), Bogac Ergene (University of Vermont) and … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup
By Ohannes Kilicdagi Description of the source: This document is a communication between the office of the Grand Wazīr and Shaykh al-Islām in 1847. It requests permission by the chief … Continue reading Can one found a church on the open sea under an Islamic government?
By Ohannes Kilicdagi The marginal note mentioned in my previous note is a note written by a bureaucrat, most probably by the Grand Wazīr, to the sultan to inform him … Continue reading Let us find an easy solution but compatible with sharī’a
By Ohannes Kilicdagi As it has been established, the 19th century was the era of reform for the Ottoman Empire. Although military reforms started earlier, the 1839 Tanzimat Edict had … Continue reading The Transformation in the Collection of Jizya in the Tanzimat Period: From individual to Community
By Gizem Orbey Background summary: Legal history survey Demographics. The Ottoman Empire was a sprawling and powerful multinational, multicultural state founded by Oghuz Turks in 1299 in Anatolia and dissolved … Continue reading Country Profile: The Ottoman Empire
By Gizem Orbey In earlier posts, I argued that a sharīʿa-compliant Islamic patent regime is not only possible, but could supply fresh ideas for solving certain co-ownership problems extant in … Continue reading Strict Sharī’a Inheritance Laws Are Not a Major Roadblock to a Sharī’a-Compliant Islamic Patent Regime
