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 →
Online-Conference: The Treatise-Literature (Rasāʾil) in the Premodern Muslim Societies (14th-19th Centuries) – June 25th, July 3rd-4th 2020
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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 →