[Bilimsel Haber] VII. Islamic Legal Studies Conference "Islamic Law and the State: Doctrine and History"

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From: Harun Yeni <haruny at bilkent.edu.tr>



VII. Islamic Legal Studies Conference entitled "Islamic Law and the 
State: Doctrine and History" organized jointly by the International 
Society for Islamic Legal Studies and the Turkish Historical Society 
(Türk Tarih Kurumu) will be held between 30th May - 1st June in the 
Rixos Grand Ankara Hotel in Ankara, Turkey. The conference program is below.

PROGRAM

VII Islamic Legal Studies Conference

"Islamic Law and the State: Doctrine and History"
"İslam Hukuku ve Devlet: Doktrin ve Tarih"

30 MAY 2012 WEDNESDAY / 30 MAYIS 2012 ÇARŞAMBA

09.30-10.00
AÇILIŞ / OPENING

Eugenia Kermeli-Ünal
On behalf of the organising commitee

Bahaeddin Yediyıldız
Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Yüksek Kurumu Başkanı
ve Türk Tarih Kurumu Başkan V.

Robert Gleave
President of ISILS

Bülent Arınç
Başbakan Yardımcısı ve Devlet Bakanı (Teşrifleri Halinde)

10.00-10.30
Açılış Konuşması / Keynote Speaker: Halil İnalcık

10.30-11.00 Kahve Molası/Coffee Break

11:00 - 15-00 Panel I / I. Oturum: Courts and the State / Mahkemeler ve 
Devlet

Morning session / Sabah oturumu:

Moderator: Asifa Quraishi-Landes
(University of Wisconsin Law School)

11:00-11.30 Steven Judd (Southern Connecticut State University) : 
Implementation and Appeal of Qadis' Rulings during the Umayyad Period

11.30-12.00 Mathieu Tillier (IFPO, Damascus),: "Constitutionalism" under 
the Abbasids: How Qadis Learned to Resist Political Pressure in Theory 
and Practice

12.00-12.30 Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben Gurion University): Tensions between 
Qadi Courts and Mazalim Tribunes in the Ahkam al-Sultaniyya of 
al-Mawardi and Abu Ya`la

12.30-14.00 Öğle Yemeği/Lunch Break

14.00-15.00
Afternoon session / Öğleden sonra oturumu

Moderator: Yunus Apaydin (Erciyes University)

14.00-14.30 Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London):
Siyasa and Shari`a under the Mamluks

14.30-15.00 Irene Schneider (University of Göttingen),: Extra-Shari`a 
Jurisdiction? The Jurisdiction of `Urfi- and Shar`i-Courts in 
Nineteenth-Century Iran

15.00-16.00 Panel
II/II- OTURUM: Muftis and the State / Müftüler ve Devlet

Moderator: Vardit Rispler - Chaim (University of Haifa)

15.00-15.30 Delfina Serrano (CSIC, Madrid): Sharia and Rule under the 
Almoravids

15.30-16.00 Samy Ayoub (University of Arizona, Tucson): The Egyptian 
Inheritance Statute: The Irrelevance of Territoriality?

16.00-16.30 Kahve Molası / Coffee Break

16.30-17.00 Muhammad al-Atawneh (Ben Gurion University): The Search for 
an Islamic State: Debating Politics and Governance in Contemporary Fatwas

17.00-17.30 Ron Shaham (Hebrew University): Politics and Gender: 
Qaradawi on Women in Roles of Political Leadership

31 MAYIS 2012 PERŞEMBE / 31 MAY 2012 THURSDAY

9.00- 11.00 Panel III / III-OTURUM: Jurists and the State / Hukukçular 
ve Devlet

Moderator: Nurit Tsafrir (Tel Aviv University)

9.00-9.30 Nejmeddine Hentati (Zaytuna University, Tunis): Maliki Jurists 
in the Medieval Muslim West Between Submission and Revolt

9.30-10.00 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

10-10.30 Marion Katz (New York University): Public Ritual and the 
Boundaries of Government Authority

10.30-11.00 Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University): Arguing the Caliphate: 
The Necessity of Political Authority in Islamic Law

11.00-11.30 Kahve Molası / Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Panel IV / IV-OTURUM: Rulers and the Law / Hükümdarlar ve Hukuk

Moderator: Barbara Roberson (Salzburg University)

11.30-12.00 Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid): Codification of the Law in 
the Islamic West

12.00-12.30 Florence Hodous (SOAS): The role of the Yasa and yarghuchis 
in the Ilkhanate

12.30-13.00 Asad Q. Ahmed (Washington University, St. Louis): On Its 
Head: Categorizing the Shari`a in British India

13.00-14.30 Öğle Tatili / Lunch Break

14.30-16.00
Afternoon Session: Öğleden sonra oturumu

Moderator: Ali Bardakoğlu (Eski Diyanet İşleri Başkanı)

14.30-15.00 Susanne Dahlgren (Helsinki University): 'Not to Touch the 
Custom and Religion': Anglo-Muhammadan Law and the Colonial State as a faqih

15.00-15.30 Katherine Hoffman (Northwestern University): Islamic Law, 
Berber Custom, and Gender under the French Protectorate of Morocco 
(1912-1956)

15.30.16.00 Russell Hopley (Bowdoin College): Confronting the Colonizer: 
`Ali ibn `Abd al-Salam al-Tusuli and the Early Jihad against the French 
Occupation of Algeria

16.00-16.30 Kahve Molası / Coffee Break

16.30-17.30 ISILS Toplantısı / ISILS Business Meeting
(for ISILS members only)

1 Haziran 2012 CUMA / 1 June 2012 FRIDAY


09.00- 11.00 Panel V / V. OTURUM: Ottoman Law and the State/ Osmanlı 
Hukuku ve Devlet

Moderator: Mehmet Akif Aydın (İSAM Başkanı)

9.00-9.30 Timothy J. Fitzgerald (James Madison University): Negotiated 
Fiat: Ottoman Provincial Law Codes and Governance in Theory and Practice

9.30-10.00 Sabrina Joseph (Zayed University, Dubai): Demarcating the 
Boundaries of State Power: Fatwās on waqfs and Peasant Tenure in 17th- 
and 18th-Century Ottoman Syria

10.00-10.30 Engin Akarlı (Brown University):
The Processes of Law and Regulation Making in 18th-Century Ottoman Istanbul

10.30-11.00 James Baldwin (Queen Mary, University of London): Mazalim in 
Ottoman Cairo: The Role of the Sultan and the Provincial Governor in 
Administering Justice

11.00-11.30 Kahve Molası / Cafe Break

11.30-13.00 Genel Değerlendirme / General Assessment
Moderator: Robert Gleave

Mehmet Akif Aydın, Ali Bardakoğlu, Ruud Peters, Frank Vogel

13.00-13:30 Wrap-up

13.30-14.30 Öğle Tatili / Lunch Break