The Fourth Workshop of the Network of British Researchers and
Practitioners of Islamic Law
An AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Project
Islamic Law in Minority Contexts
Perspectives on the marginal and the mainstream in Islamic
Jurisprudence
Thursday 17th and Friday 18th December 2009
To be held at:
The School of Oriental and African Studies
Convened by:
The Network of British Researchers and Practitioners of
Islamic Law
and
The Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
The Network of British researchers and Practitioners of Islamic Law is a project of the
AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme (see
http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/). More details on the Network’s programme
can be found at: http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/rmg205/Islamiclawprojectsummary.htm
The Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL) is affiliated to the School of
Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. For more
information, see http://www.soas.ac.uk/cimel/
Registration for the conference is free, but spaces are strictly limited. To reserve a
place, contact Robert Gleave, the Network Coordinator on r.gleave@exeter.ac.uk.
Thursday 17th December 2009
Lunch will be available for 1230hrs.
1400 Welcome – Robert Gleave, Nick Foster and Ian Edge
1415 Panel 1: Theoretical Frameworks
1415 : Are Western and Islamic laws irreconcilable?
Prakash Shah
1445: Faith and Uncertainty: Ansari’s theory of "maslahatu al-sulukiyyah" revisited
S. Mohammad Ghari S. Fatemi
1515 Tea/Coffee
1545 Islam and the West: When the Majority becomes the Minority- End-Game for
Interculturality?
Anicée (Anisseh) Van Engeland
1615 From the minority to the mainstream: Towards an ‘Adliyya reading of Shari’a
through reassessing the epistemic conditions for the validity (hujjiyya) of religious
sources
Ali Reza-Bhojani
1645 Research report:
Imranali Panjwani “Rights to one’s self – the internal human contract in international
law as a primary source of law."
1700 Research report:
Eleni Velivissaki “Accommodating Islamic law: The Case of Greece “
1715 Close
1930 Evening meal for conference participants
Friday 18th December 2009
0930 Panel 2: Legal Applications and Legal Practice
0930 “Can a non Muslim establish a waqf? Examples from 20th Century Egypt.”
Randi Deguilhem
1000 Women Muftīs: Gender and traditional religious authority
Shuruq Naguib
1030 Modernity and Islamic finance: the Creation of a Hybrid Jurisprudence
Jonathan Ercanbrack
1100 Tea/coffee
1130 Panel 3: Intersections of Islamic and Non-Islamic Laws
1130 Amān as a Principle in the Byzantine Customary Law of War
Frank Trombley
1200 Muslims in Non-Muslim Lands: Islamic Jurisprudence and Peaceful Abidance
in the Abode of War
Mustafa Raza Khan
1230 Lunch
1330 Panel 4: Minority Fiqh
1330 The role of Islamic law in the treatment of minorities in majority-Muslim states
Mustaza Hassan Shaikh
1400: Approaching Minority Fiqh Through Online Fatwas
Jens Kutscher
1430 Short Break
1440 Panel 4: Shari’a courts
1440 On the Sources of Dynamism in Shari'a Courts: A Neo-Institutional Perspective
Ido Shahar
1510 Illegitimate authority? Twelver Shiʼas and secular courts.
Alexander Hainy
1540 Closing Remarks and Future Plans for the Network
1600 Close