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 invited panel of five speakers presented on “Islamic Law and the Relationship between Ruler and Ruled.” The second part, which took place in Tampere over two-and-a-half days, consisted of twenty diverse presentations divided among five panels. See the Program below.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 (Small Festival Hall, University of Helsinki)
13:00 Welcome: ISILS President, Peri Bearman (Harvard Law School)
Keynote Lecture, Frank Vogel (Harvard Law School)
14:00–17:00 Panel I: Islamic Law and the Relationship between Ruler and Ruled (chair: Peri Bearman, Harvard Law School)
Lena Salymeh (Tel Aviv University)
Christian Müller (CNRS, Paris)
Rob Gleave (University of Exeter)
Evgenia Kermeli (Haceteppe University, Ankara)
Mulki al-Sharmani (University of Helsinki)
Thursday, June 7, 2018 (Auditorium, University of Tampere)
9:30–12:00 Panel II: The Court and Islamic Law (chair: Knut Vikør, University of Bergen)
Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University): Contesting Anglo-Muhammadan Law in Colonial Courtrooms
Ari Schriber (Harvard University): Functionalization of the Moroccan Qāḍī: The Statut des Cadis Decree of 1937-1938
Erin E. Stiles (University of Nevada): Who Is an Heir? Legal Pluralism and Inheritance Disputes in and out of Zanzibar’s Islamic Courts
Dominik Krell (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg): The Concept of the “Best Interests of the Child” in Saudi Arabian Courts
14:00–17:00 Panel III: Women and Islamic Law (chair: Asifa Quraishi-Landes, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Marion Holmes Katz (New York University): Is Marriage Really Like a Sale? Marriage and Its Metaphors in the Fifth-Sixth Century AH/Eleventh-Twelfth Century CE
Delfina Serrano (CSIC, Madrid): Legal Views on the Duration of Pregnancy and Their Impact on Islamic Notions of Paternity (nasab): Past and Present
Rozaliya Garipova (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan): An Islamic Legal Debate on “Anchored” Women in the Russian Empire
Irene Schneider (University of Göttingen): Divorce Gaza style: The taʿmīm of 2016
Ayang Utriza Yakin (Université Catholique, Louvain): Women, Right to Sexual Pleasure, and “Malu”: Sexual Enjoyment, Impotence, and Modesty in Indonesian Religious Courts
Friday, June 8, 2018 (Auditorium, University of Tampere)
9:30–12:00 Panel IV: Fiqh Discourse I (chair: Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State University)
Ron Shaham (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Legal Maxims (qawāʿid fiqhiyya) in Yūsuf al-Qaradawī’s Jurisprudence and Legal Opinions
Serena Tolino (University of Hamburg): Eunuchs in Islamic Law: The Gender of Castrated Men in the Islamic Legal Discourse
Faris Zwirahn (Princeton University): Your Marriage Contract Is Unlawful: The Validity of Virtual Communication Technology in Islamic Law
Carlo De Angelo (University of Naples): The Salafi Conception of walāʾ wa-barāʾ and Muslims Integration into Western Societies: A Negative Impact
14:00–15:30 Panel V: Islamic Law and Governance (Magdalena Martínez, University of Alicante)
Ahmed Khan (University of Hamburg): An Empire of Laws: The View from the Province
Gianluca Parolin (Agha Khan University, London): Al-Ṭahṭāwī “Translating” the 1814 French Charter: Crafting a New Semiotics of Law and Governance in 19th-Century Egypt
Knut S. Vikør (University of Bergen): Imamate and Sultanate in Twentieth-Century Ibāḍī Thought
ISILS Business Meeting (for ISILS members only)
Conference Dinner, Finlayson Palace
Saturday, June 9, 2018 (Auditorium, University of Tampere)
9:30–12:00 Panel VI: Fiqh Discourse II (chair: Susanne Dahlgren, University of Tampere)
Steven Judd (Southern Connecticut State University): Muḥammad al-Marwazī’s Treatment of Sufyān al-Thawrī in his Ikhtilāf al-fuqahāʾ
Nurit Tsafrir (Tel Aviv University): The Persian Influence on the Irāqī Ḥanafī Law: Some Notes on Its Literary Aspect
Arzoo Osanloo (University of Washington): Preserving Right, Forgiving Wrong: Mercy’s Law in Iranian Criminal Sanctions
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (University of Copenhagen): Featuring Fiqh
IX ILS Conference: Helsinki and Tampere, Finland (2018)
