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!
As part of our Roundtable on Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Irene Schneider analyzes criminal law as applied to minors in British Mandate Palestine. She traces a murder case as … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Murder in Mandate Palestine: The Case of Young Offenders
As part of our Roundtable on Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Dominik Krell illuminates the role of circumstantial and forensic evidence in contemporary Saudi criminal law. Through the examples of … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Modern Forensic Technology and the Evolution of Islamic Criminal Law in Saudi Arabia
As part of our Roundtable on Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Léon Buskens reflects on the central role of paper instruments as intergenerational material objects in Morocco. He especially calls … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Material Proof: Some Notes on Legal Documents in Morocco as Physical Objects
As part of our Roundtable on Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Aya Bejermi examines the rise of medical expertise to assess mental illness in early-twentieth-century Egyptian courts. Focusing on the … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Kashf Ṭibbī: Forensic Expertise as Probative Knowledge in Ḥajr Decisions of 20th-Century Egypt
As part of our Roundtable on Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Mashal Saif interrogates the bounds of what constitutes knowledge through the example of a murder in contemporary Pakistan. In … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Evidence for the Laity but not the Courts: Dreams and Blasphemy in Contemporary Pakistan
