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
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Glimpses of Islamic manuscript culture in Palestine" (UCLA Library, November 7, 2024), Sohaib Baig (UCLA) describes "manuscripts [housed in the UCLA Library that] illustrate … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Veiling Laws Throughout Iranian History: The Relationship to Religion, Before and During Islamic Law" (SSRN, September 20, 2024), Nicolas Garon (Southern University Law Center) questions … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
In September, we look back at some of our most read essays published in the past year as well as the roundtables we convened in the past that attracted a … Continue reading Best of 2022-2023 & Roundtables in Review: Islamic Legal Literature
Thank you, Sohaib Baig, for joining us as guest blog editor in August. In case you missed his essays, here they are: Islamic Law Collections across 14 North American Libraries … Continue reading Thank you, Sohaib Baig!
By Sohaib Baig In the previous two essays, I conducted collection-level analysis of a Turkish union catalog containing more than half a million records to explore the textual landscapes of … Continue reading Travelogues and Islamic Law: Vignettes from an Indian Ḥanafī Hajj Account, 1839
By Sohaib Baig In the previous essay, I explored the transmission of South Asian Muslim scholarship to the Ottoman Empire by analyzing contemporary holdings of Turkish manuscript collections. In this … Continue reading The Textual Landscapes of Ḥanafī Eurasia: South Asian Scholarship in Turkish Print Collections (Part 2 of 2)
By Sohaib Baig In the previous essay, I provided an overview of contemporary print collections for Islamic law in North American libraries. In the next two essays, I shift focus … Continue reading The Textual Landscapes of Ḥanafī Eurasia: South Asian Scholarship in Turkish Manuscript Collections (Part 1 of 2)
By Sohaib Baig I recently attended a gathering that focused on brainstorming the potential scopes of a digital project on Islamic legal history. Someone posed a deceptively simple question: how … Continue reading Islamic Law Collections across 14 North American Libraries
Sohaib Baig is the Librarian for Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian, and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed his PhD in History at … Continue reading Welcome to our August Guest Blogger: Sohaib Baig
