In February and March, we hosted a roundtable on "Knowledge in the Islamic Court." We thank the contributors for their essays. In case you missed one, here they are (in … Continue reading Thank you, Roundtable Contributors!
By Irene Schneider I. The Case: The Murder of Mayer Lubovitch in 1924 Mandate Palestine At noon on 29 June 1924, Mohammed Saleh El-Ahmed[1] and Mahmud Mohammed Hamad were sitting … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Murder in Mandate Palestine: The Case of Young Offenders
By Dominik Krell 1. Introduction It might be difficult for us to imagine how criminal offenses could be prosecuted without the technical possibilities we take for granted today. DNA and … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Modern Forensic Technology and the Evolution of Islamic Criminal Law in Saudi Arabia
By Léon Buskens[1] Changes in the physical appearance of legal documents from twentieth-century Morocco offer important clues to reconstruct a “biography” of their social life.[2] Their appearance in the souvenir … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Material Proof: Some Notes on Legal Documents in Morocco as Physical Objects
By Aya Bejermi In most Muslim-majority countries, Islamic normativity underwent a process of “positivization” that reshaped both the content of norms and the modes of their production.[1] In Egypt, two … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Kashf Ṭibbī: Forensic Expertise as Probative Knowledge in Ḥajr Decisions of 20th-Century Egypt
By Mashal Saif In late 2010, many Pakistani ʿulamā’ publicly declared that Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s largest province, had insulted the Prophet Muḥammad and Islam.[1] In January 2011, … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Evidence for the Laity but not the Courts: Dreams and Blasphemy in Contemporary Pakistan
