Conference participation at NSMES 2022
The six members of the CanCode team travelled to Reykjavik to take part in the 12th Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies (NSMES) called “The Middle East in Myth and Reality” University of Iceland, 22-24 September 2022.
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Several researchers travelled from Bergen, also from CMI and the Mprint project. The CanCode project had to panels:
Canonization, Codification, and Change in Islamic Law (I of II)
Chair: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (University of Copenhagen)
Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen): “Pre-Modern Standardization of Zaydi Law”
Ebrahim Mansoor (University of Bergen): ”History of Pre-Ottoman Zaydi Fiqh”
Monika Lindbekk (University of Bergen): “Codifying Family Relations: Islamic Judicial
Politics in Egypt”.
Canonization, Codification, and Change in Islamic Law (II of II)
Chair: Anne Bang (University of Bergen)
Knut S. Vikør (University of Bergen): “A Community Canon or a Minority Code? Views on Marriage and Divorce Among the Ibāḍīs of Sahara”.
Christian Mauder (University of Bergen): “Playing with the Canon: Ḥanafī Legal Riddles of the Mamluk Period”.
Mohamed Aidarus Noor (University of Bergen): “‘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”.
