“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 Tillier (IFPO, Damascus), “Constitutionalism” under the Abbasids: How Qadis Learned to Resist Political Pressure in Theory and Practice
Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben Gurion University), Tensions between Qadi Courts and Mazalim Tribunes in the Ahkam al-Sultaniyya of al-Mawardi and Abu Ya`la
Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London), Siyasa and Shari‘a under the Mamluks
Irene Schneider (University of Göttingen), Extra-Shari‘a Jurisdiction? The Jurisdiction of ‘Urfi- and Shar‘i-Courts in Nineteenth-Century Iran
PANEL II: Muftis and the State
Delfina Serrano (CSIC, Madrid), Sharia and Rule under the Almoravids
Samy Ayoub (University of Arizona, Tucson), The Egyptian Inheritance Statute: The Irrelevance of Territoriality?
Muhammad al-Atawneh (Ben Gurion University), The Search for an Islamic State: Debating Politics and Governance in Contemporary Fatwas
Ron Shaham (Hebrew University), Politics and Gender: Qaradawi on Women in Roles of Political Leadership
Thursday, May 31, 2012
PANEL III: Jurists and the State
Nejmeddine Hentati (Zaytuna University, Tunis), Maliki Jurists in the Medieval Muslim West Between Submission and Revolt
Murteza Bedir (Istanbul University), As-Siyasa ad-diniyya vs. as-siyasa al-hissiyya: al-Hasiri’s (5th/11th Century, Central Asia) Conception of the Relationship between Temporal Power and Religious Power
Marion Katz (New York University), Public Ritual and the Boundaries of Government Authority
Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University), Arguing the Caliphate: The Necessity of Political Authority in Islamic Law
PANEL IV: Rulers and the Law
Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid), Codification of the Law in the Islamic West
Florence Hodous (SOAS), The role of the Yasa and yarghuchis in the Ilkhanate
Asad Q. Ahmed (Washington University, St. Louis), On Its Head: Categorizing the Shari\\\’a in British India
Susanne Dahlgren (Helsinki University), ‘Not to Touch the Custom and Religion’: Anglo-Muhammadan Law and the Colonial State as a faqih
Katherine Hoffman (Northwestern University), Islamic Law, Berber Custom, and Gender under the French Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956)
Russell Hopley (Bowdoin College), Confronting the Colonizer: ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd al-Salam al-Tusuli and the Early Jihad against the French Occupation of Algeria
Business Meeting, for ISILS members only
Friday, June 1, 2012
PANEL V: Ottoman Law and the State
Timothy J. Fitzgerald (James Madison University), Negotiated Fiat: Ottoman Provincial Law Codes and Governance in Theory and Practice
Sabrina Joseph (Zayed University, Dubai), Demarcating the Boundaries of State Power: Fatwās on waqfs and Peasant Tenure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Syria
Engin Akarli (Brown University), The Processes of Law and Regulation Making in 18th-Century Ottoman Istanbul
James Baldwin (Queen Mary, University of London), Mazalim in Ottoman Cairo: The Role of the Sultan and the Provincial Governor in Administering Justice
Panel Discussion: Rob Gleave, Ruud Peters, Frank Vogel
Wrap-up
VII ILS Conference: Islamic Law and the State (2012)
