Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law

Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law


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Language, Power, and Law in the Ottoman Empire
December 12, 2019

Episode 441 with Heather Fergusonhosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, historian Heather Ferguson takes us behind the scenes of early modern Ottoman state-making with a discussion of her recen

Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Evlilik ve Boşanma
November 29, 2019

Bölüm 437 Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik Sunucu Can Gümüş Podcast'i indirFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Osmanlı'da çiftler nasıl evlenir, nasıl boşanırdı? Bu podcast'te Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik ile İstanbul Bab, Davud Paşa ve Ahi Çelebi mahkemele

Islamic Law and Arab Diaspora in Southeast Asia
October 08, 2019

Episode 430 with Nurfadzilah Yahayahosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the 19th century, Southeast Asia came under British and Dutch colonial rule. Yet despite the imposition of foreign institutions

Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria
February 08, 2018

Episode 345 with Will Hanleyhosted by Taylor M. Moore Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Will Hanley transports us to the gritty, stranger-filled streets of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, as we discuss his

Nationality and Citizenship in Mandate Palestine
October 16, 2016

with Lauren Banko hosted by Michael Talbot Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The 1925 Palestine Citizenship Order-in-Council, passed by the British government and implemented in the Palestine Mandate, was the first piece of manda

Religious Sentiment and Political Liberties in Colonial South Asia
September 06, 2016

with Julie Stephens hosted by Chris Gratien and Tyler Conklin Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the 1920s, a publisher in Lahore published a satire on the domestic life of the Prophet Muhammad during a period of religious

Gendered Politics of Conversion in Early Modern Aleppo
September 04, 2016

with Elyse Semerdjian hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The changing of one's religion may be viewed today as a matter of personal spirituality or identity, but as the historiography of the Ottoman Emp

Capitalism and the Courts in 19th Century Egypt
August 31, 2016

with Omar Cheta hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The Capitulations are regarded as one of the most obvious and humiliating signs of European dominance over Ottoman markets and diplomatic relations in the 1

Economics and Justice in the Ottoman Courts | Boğaç Ergene
April 11, 2016

Original air date: 11 April 2016 | Were Ottoman courts just? Boğaç Ergene discusses this basic question in this podcast by forging a new path beyond the earlier views of the justice system as inherently fickle and capricious—immortalized in Weber’s concep

The Ottoman Tanzimat in Practice
December 05, 2015

with Cengiz Kırlı hosted by Chris Gratien Within Anglophone historiography, the Tanzimat period is conventionally represented as an era of centralizing reforms emanating from the imperial center that represent a trend often labeled as "modernization&