VI ILS Conference Program
Monday, July 13, 2009
9:30 am Conference Introduction
A. LEGAL THEORY AND TERMINOLOGY
9:50 am - 12:30 pm Panel I Shari'a and Custom: Theory
1. Jonathan Brockopp (Pennsylvania State University), Sunna, not Custom
2. Ahmed El Shamsy (Harvard University), Codifying Custom into Law: Malik’s Muwatta' and the Practice ('amal) of Medina
3. Murteza Bedir (Sakarya University), Custom in the Waqi'at Texts: Solution to a Paradox?
4. Nejmeddine Hentati (Zaytuna University, Tunis), Rôle de la coutume ('urf) dans la formation du droit malikite
2:00 pm Keynote Address, by Martha Mundy, London School of Economics
3:00 - 6:30 pm Panel II Shari'a and Custom: Fiqh
5. Steven Judd (Southern Connecticut State University), Al-Awza'i’s Role in Incorporating Custom into Islamic Law
6. Ersilia Francesca (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L’Orientale"), Custom and Legal Theory in the Ibadi fiqh
7. Christian Müller (CNRS, Paris), Custom as Social and Juridical Categories in 11th-Century Hanafi Law
8. Alfonso Carmona (University of Murcia), 'Amal and the Making of Legality in the Maliki Islamic West
9. Himmet Taskomur (Harvard University), Sultanic Custom and Juristic Custom in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Legal Thought
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
9:15 - 10:30 am Panel III Shari'a and Custom: Terminology and Concept
10. Frank Stewart (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), False Friends: Overlapping Terminology in Arab Customary Law and in Islamic Law
11. Kevin Reinhart (Dartmouth College), Shari'ah as 'Urf: Ziya Gökalp’s Reconstruction of shari'ah, 'adah and 'urf
12. Abdessamad Belhaj (Catholic University of Pázmány Peter, Hungary), Custom as a Source of Islamic Law in fiqh al-aqalliyat
B. CASES AND APPLICATION
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Panel IV The Pre-Modern Period
13. Delfina Serrano (CSIC, Madrid), Is The Ship Included in the Assessment of the General Average Contribution for Jettisoned Cargo? On the Role of Custom in Twelfth-Century Maliki Maritime Law
14. 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
15. Eugenia Kermeli (Bilkent University), Conflict and Compromise: The Reaction
of Ottoman Muftis and Qadis to Customs of New Converts to Islam,
17th-18th Centuries
2:15 - 3:40 pm Panel IV The Pre-Modern Period, cont.
16. Marion Katz (New York University), Law, Custom, and Women’s Work in the Law of Nikah
17. Rob Gleave (University of Exeter), Shar' and 'Urf in Bushahr: The Position of Custom in Shi'i Law
18. Paolo Sartori (Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg),
Established Customs in Shar'i Courts: Qadis and Animal Theft in the
Central Asian Steppe
4:10 - 6:00 pm Panel V The Modern Period
19. William Roff (Professor emeritus, Columbia University), Colonial Authority, Customary Law and Islamic Law: Three Case Studies
20. Irene Schneider (University of Göttingen), The Concept of Honour and
its Reflection in the Iranian Penal Code
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
9:30 - 11:30 am ISILS Business Meeting (for members only)
2:00 - 3:45 pm Panel V The Modern Period, cont.
21. Aharon Layish (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), The Impact of Islamic Law on Tribal
Customary Law as Reflected in Arbitrators’ Awards in the Judean Desert
22. Abdulmumini A. Oba (University of Ilorin, Nigeria), The Impact of Customs on Islamic Family Law in Northern Nigeria
23. Randi Deguilhem (CNRS/IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence), Islamic Law and Customs in Contemporary France: The Waqfs of the Islamic Relief Society
C. A COMPARATIVE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
4:15 - 5:15 pm Panel VII Summing-Up
Brief comments by Frank Vogel (ILSP, Harvard Law School) and Ruud Peters (University of Amsterdam) followed by at-large discussio
5:15 pm Conference Conclusion