Traditionalism and Modernism in Islamic Law

Friday 14^th and Saturday 15^th November 2008

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

University of Exeter

The second workshop of the Network of the British Researchers and Practitioners of Islamic Law, an AHRC/ESRC sponsored network under the Religion and Society Programme

For background on the Network (including details on the first workshop), click here

For information on the Religion and Society Programme more widely, click here

[Second Draft – 9^th October 2008]

Friday 14^th November 2008

1200 onwards – Lunch available in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

1315 Welcome and practicalities - Robert Gleave

1330 Panel 1: Early Maliki and Hanbali law: Development and Tradition

1330 Jonathan Brockopp: “Early Maliki Law: A New Text”

1400 Amir Shaharuddin, “The development of the early Maliki rulings on Mudarabah”

1430 Saud al-Sarhan, “The Masa’il of Ahmad b. Hanbal”

1500 Tea/Coffee

1545 Panel 2: Tradition and Traditionalism in Islamic law

1545 Ahmad Sabah Khan, “Ibn Qutayba’s representation of the jurists between the Ashab al-hadith and the Ashab al-ra’y”

1615 Richard Gauvain, “Salafism in Cairo: negotiating the Saudi message”

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Saturday 15^th November 2008

0930 Panel 3: The Elaboration of Maliki Jurisprunce

0930 Ahmad Achtar, “Al-Baqillani’s contribution to usul al-fiqh: the case of majaz”

1000 Fawzi Elgariani, “Terms in the Maliki School of Law”

1030 Yasmin Safian, “Darura in Maliki fiqh: Food and Tayammum”

1100 Tea/coffee

1130 Panel 4: The Practicality and Implementation of Islamic Law

1130 Ruud Peters, “Madhhabs and legal practice in Ottoman Egypt: The evidence from the Dakhla documents.”

1200 Zulkifli Hasan, “The Regulatory Framework of Shari’ah Governance: Islamic Banking and Finance”

1230 Research Reports

1. Jonathan Ercanbrack on Islamic Finance in Diaspora – Britain’s and Germany’s Regulatory Approach

2. Murtaza Sheikh on the protection of minorities in international human rights and Islamic law

1300 Lunch

1400 Panel 5: Issues in contemporary Muslim jurisprudence

1400 Sohail Elghariani, “The debate about the extension to the sa’y”

1430 Ahmed Al-Dawoody, “Islamic International Humanitarian Law”

1500 Tea/Coffee

1530 Panel 6: Studies on Maliki Jihad theory

1530 Frank Trombley, “Al-Qayrawani on the law of booty and captives: some comparisons with Byzantine legal norms (8th-11th c.)”

1600 Aibek Ahmedov, “Logic and reasoning in Maliki jurisprudence: Ibn Rushd’s chapter on Jihad”

1630 Close