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
By Ari Schriber Introduction: Centering Evidence, Proof, and Procedure in Islamic Law What counts as proof in an Islamic court? How does technological advancement impact notions of evidence? How does … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Knowledge in the Islamic Court
By Sohaib Baig In this essay, I reflect on the possibilities of analyzing metadata of Islamic manuscript collections to better understand Islamic legal history. This is inspired in general terms … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Islamic Legal History and the Blossoming Dataverse of Islamic Manuscripts
By Zahra Takhshid In the Oscar winning movie A Separation, Raziyeh, the caregiver of Nader’s father, picks up the phone from the convenience of Nader’s home and calls her marjaʿ taqlīd’s[1] … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: ChatGPT and the Marjaʿ
By Zubair Abbasi This essay evaluates the potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models—ChatGPT-4, Gemini, Co-Pilot, and DeepSeek—to apply the principles of Islamic inheritance law. Using a GenAI Evaluation Scale … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Augmented Learning: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Islamic Inheritance Law
