VI ILS Conference Program

Friday, January 30, 2009

9:45 Conference Introduction, by Frank E. Vogel, President, ISILS

A. LEGAL THEORY AND TERMINOLOGY

Panel I Shari'a and Custom: Theory
10:00 Jonathan Brockopp (Pennsylvania State University), Sunna, not Custom
10:15 Ahmed El Shamsy (Harvard University), Codifying Custom into Law: Malik’s Muwatta' and the Practice ('amal) of Medina
10:30—11:00 Q & A

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11:30 Murteza Bedir (Sakarya University), Custom in the Waqi'at Texts: Solution to a Paradox?
11:45 Nejmeddine Hentati (Zaytuna University, Tunis), Rôle de la coutume ('urf) dans la formation du droit malikite
12:00 Aron Zysow (Princeton University), The Source of Custom in Islamic Law
12:15—1:00 Q & A and discussion

LUNCH

Panel II Shari'a and Custom: Fiqh
2:30 Steven Judd (Southern Connecticut State University), Al-Awza'i’s Role in Incorporating Custom into Islamic Law
2:45 Ersilia Francesca (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L’Orientale"), Custom and Legal Theory in the Ibadi fiqh
3:00 Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid), Islamic Law and Custom During the Almohad Period
3:15—3:45 Q & A

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4:15 Christian Müller (CNRS, Paris), Custom as Social and Juridical Categories in 11th-Century Hanafi Law
4:30 Alfonso Carmona (University of Murcia), 'Amal and the Making of Legality in the Maliki Islamic West
4:45 Himmet Taskomur (Harvard University), Sultanic Custom and Juristic Custom in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Legal Thought
5:00—6:30 Q & A and general discussion

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Panel III Shari'a and Custom: Terminology and Concept
9:30 Frank Stewart (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), False Friends: Overlapping Terminology in Arab Customary Law and in Islamic Law
9:45 Kevin Reinhart (Dartmouth College), Shari'ah as 'Urf: Ziya Gökalp’s Reconstruction of shari'ah, 'adah and 'urf
10:00 Abdessamad Belhaj (Catholic University of Pázmány Peter, Hungary), Custom as a Source of Islamic Law in fiqh al-aqalliyat
10:15—10:45 Q & A

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B. CASES AND APPLICATION

Panel IV The Pre-Modern Period
11:15 Yaacov Lev (Bar Ilan University), Criminal Justice in Eleventh-Century Egypt: Shari'a and Practice
11:30 Delfina Serrano (CSIC, Madrid), Is Compensation Due for Shipped Freight? On the Role of Custom in Maliki Maritime Law (9th to 12th Centuries C.E)
11:45 Yassir Benhima (University of Lyon), Contribution à l’étude du droit coutumier au sud du Maroc. À propos de deux coutumiers de la région de Safi au 16e siècle
12:00 Eugenia Kermeli (Bilkent University), Conflict and Compromise: The Reaction of Ottoman Muftis and Qadis to Customs of New Converts to Islam, 17th-18th Centuries
12:15—1:00 Q & A

LUNCH

2:30 Marion Katz (New York University), Law, Custom, and Women’s Work in the Law of Nikah
2:45 Rob Gleave (University of Exeter), Shar' and 'Urf in Bushahr: The Position of Custom in Shi'i Law
3:00 Paolo Sartori (Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg), Preventing a Feud Between Members of a Kazakh Tribe: A Case of Blood Money Settled “According to Sharī'a” in an ' Ada Court in Tashkent
3:15—3:45 Q & A

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Panel V The Colonial Period and Its Legacy
4:15 William Roff (Professor emeritus, Columbia University), Colonial Authority, Customary Law and Islamic Law: Three Case Studies
4:30 Abdulmumini A. Oba (University of Ilorin, Nigeria), The Impact of Customs on Islamic Family Law in Northern Nigeria
4:30—5:15 Q & A and general discussion

Sunday, February 1, 2009

9:30—11:30 ISILS Business Meeting (ISILS members only)

Panel VI The Modern Period
11:45 Brink Messick (Columbia University), Custom in Imamic Yemeni Courts
12:00 Aharon Layish (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), The Impact of Islamic Law on Tribal Customary Law as Reflected in Arbitrators’ Awards in the Judean Desert
12:15—12:45 Q & A

LUNCH

2:15 Léon Buskens (Leiden University), Customs Between Fiqh and State Law: An Overview of the Development of Customary Law in Morocco from circa 1860
2:30 Irene Schneider (University of Göttingen), The Concept of Honour and its Reflection in the Iranian Penal Code
2:45 Randi Deguilhem (CNRS/IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence), Islamic Law and Customs in Contemporary France: The Waqfs of the Islamic Relief Society
3:00—3:45 Q & A and general discussion

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C. A COMPARATIVE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Panel VII
4:00—5:00 Brief comments by Frank Vogel (ILSP, Harvard Law School), Ruud Peters (University of Amsterdam), and Gideon Libson (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) followed by at-large discussion