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Presentations at DOT, Berlin 2022

CanCode had seven presentations, six of them in two Cancode-panels at the 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag in Berlin, 12.-17.09 2022 at Freie Universität Berlin. Read more about them here.

Conference prensenation
Nijmi Edres presenting and Christian Mauder as chair.
Photo:
E Hovden

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At the DOT we had two CanCode panels:

CANONIZATION, CODIFICATION, AND CHANGE IN ISLAMIC LAW (I)

Eirik Hovden: Pre-modern standardization of Zaydi law

Mohamed Aidarus Noor: ‘Becoming a Canon’: History, Process and Context in the Canonization of Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn along the Western Indian Ocean Coast in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Christian Mauder: Playing with the Canon: Ḥanafī Legal Riddles of the Mamluk Period

CANONIZATION, CODIFICATION, AND CHANGE IN ISLAMIC LAW (II)

Nijmi Edres: Modern codification of Islamic law: Israel as a case study

Monika Lindbekk: Filling Gaps in Legislation: Islamic judicial politics in Egypt

Olav Elgvin: Canonization of Islamic texts in contemporary Europe: Using translation as a lens

 

In addition, Elgvin also presented here:

Panel: MUSLIM ORGANIZATIONS AND THE STATE INEUROPE

Olav Elgvin: Squeezing too hard: The Islamic Council of Norway and the challenge of representing Islam in Europe