Legal Canons—In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons

Posted on February 23, 2022
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PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb, gave the 43rd Annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture on interpreting Islamic law, which was recently published by the Villanova Law Review.

Read “Legal Canons—In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons, 1265–1519” (Villanova Law Review 66, no. 5 (2022)), which traces the origins of Islamic law canons, with a focus on how those canons were utilized in Islamic courts as well as educational settings.