Call for Papers ISILS invites paper proposals for its eleventh Islamic Legal Studies conference, to be held at the University of Münster, 22-24 May 2025. The Third International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held at Harvard University Law School in May 2000, was devoted to the madhhab. 25 years later, we want to revisit this…
10th Islamic Legal Studies Conference London, 19-21 May 2022 The 10th Islamic Legal Studies conference, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS) in partnership with the Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), will be held at the Aga Khan Centre in London,…
The IX Islamic Legal Studies Conference, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS), was held under the auspices of the Universities of Helsinki and Tampere, Finland, June 6–9, 2018. The conference was divided into two parts. In the first, which took place in Helsinki on June 6, a keynote address and an…
VIII International Conference of the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies Islamic Law and Ethics 6th-8th November 2015 Coinciding with the 6th Annual Conference of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) Leiden The Netherlands The LUCIS 6th annual conference will coincide with the VIII conference of the International Society for…
“Islamic Law and the State” Seventh Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Ankara Convened under the auspices of the Turkish Historical Association, Ankara Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Keynote Speech: Halil Inalcik (Bilkent University, Ankara) PANEL I: Courts and the State Steven Judd (Southern Connecticut State University), Implementation and Appeal of Qadis’ Rulings during the Umayyad Period Mathieu…
Monday, July 13, 2009 9:15 am Conference Introduction A. LEGAL THEORY AND TERMINOLOGY 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Panel I Shari’a and Custom: Theory (chair: Knut Vikor, University of Bergen) 1. Jonathan Brockopp (Pennsylvania State University), Sunna, not Custom 2. Ahmed El Shamsy (Harvard University), Codifying Custom into Law: Malik’s Muwatta’ and the Practice (‘amal)…
