Thursday, 22nd of May

14:00

Welcome

Roundtable Discussion: Researching and Teaching Sharia in 2025

14:30 – 16:00

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

Opening Panel: Belonging to a Madhhab: Formation, Cohesion and Diversity in Islamic Schools of Law (Part 1)

Chair: Norbert Oberauer

16:30 – 17:00

Mohamed Ali, Georgetown University

The Mashhūr: Between Legal Stability and Indeterminacy in the Mālikī Madhhab

17:00 – 17:30

Alexander Thurston, University of Cincinnati

Defending, Exploring, and Relativizing the Mālikī Madhhab: Saʿīd al-Kamalī’s

Lectures on the Muwaṭṭaʾ

17:30 – 17:45

Coffee Break

Opening Panel: Belonging to a Madhhab: Formation, Cohesion and Diversity in Islamic Schools of Law (Part 2)

Chair: Lena-Maria Möller

17:45 – 18:15

Muhammed Şahin, University of Tübingen/ ISAM

The Influence of the Concept of Madhhab on Iraqi Hanafī Scholars’ Opinions and

Works

18:15– 18:45

Zahra Jafari, University of Exeter

The Akhbārī Movement: A New Madhhab, An Anti-Madhhab, or An Intellectual Trend?

18:45 – 19:15

Dominik Krell, University of Oxford/ Wolfson College

The madhhab at the Margins: Crossing School Boundaries in the Cadi Courts of

The Gambia

19:15 – 20:45

Reception with Buffet

Friday, 23rd of May

Panel 1: The Making of Authority in Islamic Jurisprudence: Continuity, Change, and Adaption

Chair: Serena Tolino

09:00 – 09:30

Shahanaz Begum, University of Exeter

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānῑ: The Impact of a Founding Father on Legal Theory

09:30 – 10:00

Farid Bouchiba, CNRS – IRHT, Paris

The Place of Legal Divergences in the Formation of the Mālikī School: Diversity and Coherence

10:00 – 10:30

Christian Müller, CNRS – IRHT, Paris

Rule Authority and Shifting Interpretations: The Jurists' Law as a Legal Discursive System (2nd-13th/8th-19th centuries)

10:30 – 11:00

Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, University of Southern California

The Exceptional Mālikī: Ibn Khuwayz Mindād as a Case for Rethinking Ijtihād

in 4th/10th C. Iraq

11:00 – 12:00

Poster Presentation/ Coffee Break

Posters:

• (De)Colonizing Sharia? Tracing Transformation, Change and Continuity in Islamic Law in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the 19th and 20th Centuries, ERC Advanced Grant 2024-2029.

  Irene Schneider (PI), Mahmud El-Wereny, Lena-Maria Möller, Ari Schriber

• TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources, SNSF Project 2022-2026.

  Serena Tolino (PI), Omar Anchassi, Laura Emunds, Laura Rowitz

• TraIL: Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions (TraIL), SNSF Starting Grant. 2024-2029.

  Serena Tolino (PI), Leonie Isch, Laila Makboul, Ilyes Mechentel

• Mapping Change in Islamic Law: Rules and Practices (MCILRaP), ERC Advanced Grant 2024 - 2029.

Christian Müller (PI), Farid Bouchiba, Shadha Karoumi, Wassim Ammar

Panel 2: Historical and Regional Dynamics in Islamic Jurisprudence

Chair: Delfina Serrano

12:00 – 12:30

Anggi Azzuhri, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia

The Meccan Shāfiʿītes Sub-school and Rise of Arab-centric Narrative: a Historical- Anthropological Analysis of Meccan-Cairene Division from Tuḥfah al-Muḥtāj and

Nihāya al-Muḥtāj on Khuṭba

12:30 – 13:00

Janina Safran, Penn State University

Al-Burzulī and the Revival of the Mālikī madhhab

13:00 – 13:30

Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University

Muslim Juridical Views on the Principle of Non-Combatant Immunity

13:30 – 15:00

Lunch (Buffet)

Panel 3: Worldly Affairs, Economic Realities, and Afterworld Concerns: Legal and Moral Dimensions in Islamic Jurisprudence

Chair: Hakkı Arslan

15:00 – 15:30

Laura Emunds, University of Bern

Legal Subjecthood beyond the Freedom/Enslavement Binary: The Case of the

mukātab/a

15:30 – 16:00

Marion Katz, New York University

Otherworldly Assets: Juristic debates on transactions involving thawāb

16:00 – 16:30

Serena Tolino, University of Bern

Exploring Concepts on Work and Labour in Islamic Legal Sources

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30

ISILS Business Meeting

20:00

Conference Dinner for Speakers

Saturday, 24th of May

Panel 4: Intellectual, Institutional and Legal Transformations in 19th-Century

Chair: Asifa Quraishi

10:00 – 10:30

Robert Gleave, University of Exeter

Exclusion and Inclusion in the Zaydi and Twelver Shīʿī Madhhabs

10:30 – 11:00

Hatice Öztürk, Georgetown University

Building Regional Scholarly Authority within Late Ottoman Ḥanafī Law: Ibn

ʿĀbidīn’s Strategic Use of ʿUrf in Radd al-muḥtār

11:00 – 11:30

Samy Ayoub, University of Texas at Austin

Islamic Law and Mixed Courts in 19th Century Egypt

11:30 – 12:00

Coffee Break

Panel 5: From Colonial Rule to Postcolonial Dynamics: Legal Practices and Institutional Realities

Chair: Christian Müller

12:00 – 12:30

Uvaise Karattiyattil, Manhajurrashad Islamic College

Is the Qadi Necessary Institution in the Modern Context? a Study of Non-State

Shāfiʿī Qadis in Calicut, Kerala, India (1947 - Present)

12:30 – 13:00

Irene Schneider, University of Göttingen/ Max-Weber-Kolleg - University of Erfurt

Criminal Trials in Mandate Palestine

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch (Buffet)

Panel 6: Contemporary Legal Challenges, Cultural Shifts, and Popular Culture in Muslim- Majority Societies

Chair: Knut Vikør

14:30 – 15:00

Fines Fatimah, Brawijaya University

The Right to Choose a Half-Hearted Law: A Discourse on the Enforcement of Islamic Law for LGBT+ Persons in Aceh-Indonesia

15:00 – 15:30

Gianluca Parolin, Aga Khan University

Nitṭallaʾ? Redefining Agency in Divorce on Egyptian Screens: Intersections of Gender and Class in Islamic Law and the Humanities.

15:30 – 16:00

Julia Sochacka, University of Warsaw

Embracing Modernity, Preserving Tradition. Chances and Challenges for International Arbitration in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

16:00 – 16:30

Conclusions, Farewell