Abstract: Ottoman court registers (sicill-s, sijillāt) are known for being major sources in social, economic and legal history during the 15th-19th centuries. Undoubtedly, these judicial archives were products of applied law; whether they followed the jurists' sharia-law requirements remains disputed. My talk inquires into the registers' function as "living archives" that safeguarded individuals' legal rights... Weiterlesen →
Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres (6)
Abstract: Much has been written about the Maliki fatāwā literature and attention has been especially paid to al-Wansharīsī's (d. 914/1508) compilation. But why were such works written? Were there different types? Were they written at specific times? I will first review the chronology and typology of the fatāwā compilations written in the Islamic West (al-Andalus, Sicily... Weiterlesen →
Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres (5)
Abstract: This talk explores how legal treatises (rasāʾil) were essential sites for the development and expansion of Islamic legal schools’ (madhāhib) positions. I propose that rasāʾil along with legal edicts (fatāwā)––besides legal commentaries (shurūḥ) and manuals (mutūn)––were the prime loci where jurists had to contend with rapid social, political, and economic changes. Although these legal treatises were... Weiterlesen →
Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres (4)
Abstract: The ḥāshiya (gloss/supercommentary) is a characteristic literary genre of postclassical Muslim scholarship. In the field of Sunni Islamic law, the ḥāshiya became the central site at which the dominant teaching of each school of law was elaborated, making earlier works obsolete. At the same time, the ḥāshiya operated within the influential “hierarchy of jurists” model developed in the thirteenth century,... Weiterlesen →
Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres (3)
The presentation is part of a monthly lecture series organized by the Project “Canonization and Diversification in Islamic Law and in Arabian Rhetoric in Comparison” situated in the collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1385) at the Münster University, in cooperation with Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Theology at Istanbul... Weiterlesen →
Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres (2)
Abstract: Maliki fiqh witnessed the rise of three influential epitomes (mukthasars) in the course of less than 200 years that coincided with the establishment of the Mamluk state in Egypt and the Levant. The first, authored by Ibn Shas (d. 612), goes by the title ‘Iqd al-Jawahir al-Thamina. The second, authored by Ibn al-Hajib (d.... Weiterlesen →
Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres (1)
The presentation is part of a monthly lecture series organized by the Project “Canonization and Diversification in Islamic Law and in Arabian Rhetoric in Comparison” situated in the collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1385) at the Münster University, in cooperation with Program of Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Theology at Istanbul... Weiterlesen →
Online-Conference: The Treatise-Literature (Rasāʾil) in the Premodern Muslim Societies (14th-19th Centuries) – June 25th, July 3rd-4th 2020
Registration before June 23 at: registration.risala@uni-osnabrueck.de Conference-booklet PDFHerunterladen
Rasāʾil-Workshop: Online-Lektüreseminare zur Traktat-Literatur (rasāʾil) vom 20. Juni-10. Juli 2020
Das Fatih Sahn-ı Seman Forschungszentrum in Istanbul bietet im Sommer diesen Jahres unter dem Titel Risale Günleri einen Risala-Workshop an, in dem mehrere Lektüreseminare zu verschiedenen kleineren Traktaten aus den Bereichen des fiqh, hadīṯ,tafsīr, Grammatik, Philosophie, Logik, Naturwissenschaften und Politik angeboten werden. Unter diesem Link kann das Programmheftchen zu den verschiedenen Textlektüren heruntergeladen werden. Anmeldezeitraum... Weiterlesen →