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\u201cIslamic Law and the State\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Seventh Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Ankara<\/p>\n Convened under the auspices of the Turkish Historical Association, Ankara<\/p>\n Wednesday, May 30, 2012<\/p>\n Keynote Speech: <\/b>Halil Inalcik (Bilkent University, Ankara)<\/p>\n PANEL I: Courts and the State<\/b><\/p>\n Steven Judd (Southern Connecticut State University), Implementation and Appeal of Qadis\u2019 Rulings during the Umayyad Period<\/i><\/p>\n Mathieu Tillier (IFPO, Damascus), \u201cConstitutionalism\u201d under the Abbasids: How Qadis Learned to Resist Political Pressure in Theory and Practice<\/i><\/p>\n Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben Gurion University), Tensions between Qadi Courts and Mazalim Tribunes in the <\/i>Ahkam al-Sultaniyya of al-Mawardi and Abu Ya`la\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London), Siyasa and Shari\u2018a under the Mamluks<\/i><\/p>\n Irene Schneider (University of G\u00f6ttingen), Extra-Shari\u2018a Jurisdiction? The Jurisdiction of \u2018Urfi- and Shar\u2018i-Courts in Nineteenth-Century Iran<\/i><\/p>\n PANEL II: Muftis and the State<\/b><\/p>\n Delfina Serrano (CSIC, Madrid), Sharia and Rule under the Almoravids<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Samy Ayoub (University of Arizona, Tucson), The Egyptian Inheritance Statute: The Irrelevance of Territoriality?<\/i><\/p>\n Muhammad al-Atawneh (Ben Gurion University), The Search for an Islamic State: Debating Politics and Governance in Contemporary Fatwas<\/i><\/p>\n Ron Shaham (Hebrew University), Politics and Gender: Qaradawi on Women in Roles of Political Leadership<\/i><\/p>\n Thursday, May 31, 2012<\/p>\n PANEL III: Jurists and the State<\/b><\/p>\n Nejmeddine Hentati (Zaytuna University, Tunis), Maliki Jurists in the Medieval Muslim West Between Submission and Revolt<\/i><\/p>\n Murteza Bedir (Istanbul University), As-Siyasa ad-diniyya vs. as-siyasa al-hissiyya: al-Hasiri\u2019s (5th\/11th Century, Central Asia) Conception of the Relationship between Temporal Power and Religious Power<\/i><\/p>\n Marion Katz (New York University), Public Ritual and the Boundaries of Government Authority<\/i><\/p>\n Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University), Arguing the Caliphate: \u00a0The Necessity of Political Authority in Islamic Law<\/i><\/p>\n PANEL IV: Rulers and the Law<\/b><\/p>\n Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid), Codification of the Law in the Islamic West<\/i><\/p>\n Florence Hodous (SOAS), The role of the Yasa and <\/i>yarghuchis in the Ilkhanate<\/i><\/p>\n Asad Q. Ahmed (Washington University, St. Louis), On Its Head: Categorizing the Shari\\\\\\’a in British India<\/i><\/p>\n Susanne Dahlgren (Helsinki University), \u2018Not to Touch the Custom and Religion\u2019: Anglo-Muhammadan Law and the Colonial State as a<\/i> faqih<\/p>\n Katherine Hoffman (Northwestern University), Islamic Law, Berber Custom, and Gender under the French Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956)<\/i><\/p>\n Russell Hopley (Bowdoin College), Confronting the Colonizer: \u2018Ali ibn \u2018Abd al-Salam al-Tusuli and the Early Jihad against the French Occupation of Algeria<\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Business Meeting, for ISILS members only\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n Friday, June 1, 2012<\/p>\n PANEL V: Ottoman Law and the State<\/b><\/p>\n Timothy J. Fitzgerald (James Madison University), Negotiated Fiat: Ottoman Provincial Law Codes and Governance in Theory and Practice<\/i><\/p>\n Sabrina Joseph (Zayed University, Dubai), Demarcating the Boundaries of State Power:\u00a0 Fatw\u0101<\/i>s on waqf<\/i>s and Peasant Tenure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Syria<\/p>\n Engin Akarli (Brown University), The Processes of Law and Regulation Making in 18th-Century Ottoman Istanbul<\/i><\/p>\n James Baldwin (Queen Mary, University of London), Mazalim in Ottoman Cairo: The Role of the Sultan and the Provincial Governor in Administering Justice<\/i><\/p>\n Panel Discussion: <\/b>Rob Gleave, Ruud Peters, Frank Vogel<\/b><\/p>\n Wrap-up<\/b><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″]VII ILS Conference: Islamic Law and the State (2012)<\/h4><\/div><\/div>