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Join us next month on April 16th at 12pm EST via Zoom for the Roundtable on Knowledge in the Islamic Court which will conclude the series of essays on the ISLAMICLAWblog! The Roundtable explores questions such as: What counts as proof in an Islamic court? How does a judge rule between competing claims to truth? How does technological advancement impact notions of evidence? How our understanding of Islamic law writ large can change if we center its rules of adjudication. And what constitutes an “Islamic” court or judge in the first place? The participants of this roundtable seek to address these questions through five respective case studies and propose that attention to evidence, proof, and procedure will help us better understand both the adjudicative process and juristic intent of Islamic legal rules. Focusing primarily on the modern and contemporary world, the five contributions center varying conceptions of proof amidst rapid social and technological changes in Islamic judicial contexts.

Convened by Nurul Hoda Mohd. Razif (University of Bergen) and Ari Schriber (University of Erfurt), the Roundtable features contributions from Aya Bejermi (University of Bordeaux), Léon Buskens (Leiden University), Dominik Krell (University of Oxford), Irene Schneider (Göttingen University), and Mashal Saif (Clemson University). Register today!