Aspects of Islamic Law in the Pre-Modern Period (Research Group Conference)
Tue, 11/01/2000 to Thu, 13/01/2000
Law and the State in Classical Islam
Miklos Muranyi
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Bonn University
Miklos is a professor in the Institute for Oriental Languages at Bonn University. His research interests are: the history of Islam; Qurʾānic exegesis and tradition; history of Islamic law in North Africa and Islamic Spain; manuscript studies and collection of early materials on Mālikī law.
Nimrod Hurvitz
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Nimrod is a professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests are: the mutual influence between intellectual trends and social context; role of the Hanbali school of law in early Abbasid society.
Yohanan Friedmann
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yohanan is a professor in the Department of Arabic and Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jonathan Brockopp
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Bard College
Jonathan is a professor in the Department of Religion at Bard College. His research interests are: early Islamic legal texts; Islamic law of slavery; Islamic ethics; comparative religious law; Egypt and North Africa in the eighth and ninth centuries CE.
Nurit Tsafrir
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Tel Aviv University
Nurit is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are: the Muslim legal system in its formative period; Muslim schools of law; legal scholars and the state in medieval Islam; Muslim jurisprudence and legal literature.
Ella Landau-Tasseron
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ella is a professor in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are: early Islamic history; pre- and early Islamic society, political structure and institutions; Islamic tradition/Ḥadīth; Islamic historiography; Jihad.
Maribel Fierro
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Spanish National Research Council
Maribel is a professor in the Department of Arabic Studies at CSIC, Madrid. Her research interests are: history of al-Andalus and the Islamic West; Islamic law (Mālikī school); heresy in Islamic societies; early Islam; Muslims in Europe.
Camilla Adang
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Tel Aviv University
Camilla is a professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are Classical Islamic theology and law, especially in al-Andalus.