Roundtable on Islamic Legal History and Historiography

Harvard Law School published this video item, entitled “Roundtable on Islamic Legal History and Historiography” – below is their description.

The growing field of Islamic law was the focus of the recent Roundtable on Islamic Legal History and Historiography, a discussion organized by Harvard Law School Professor Intisar Rabb, director of the school’s Program in Islamic Law. The roundtable, which grew out of the Islamic Law Blog co-edited by Rabb and University of Toronto history professor Mariam Sheibani, convened more than a dozen leading Islamic law scholars, and looked at some of the key issues and debates surrounding the evolution of this relatively new area of scholarship.

Read more at https://today.law.harvard.edu/at-harvard-a-growing-focus-on-islamic-law/

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