Mukhtaṣar and matn: agency and change in the pivots of the Islamic legal schools
In this CanCode workshop we plan to compare and contrast the authorship and reception history of important cases of matns and mukhtaṣars in Islamic legal history.
Hovedinnhold
The texts of the legal genres of matn and mukhtaṣar are seen as stable entities from the medieval period serving as educational primers and base texts for commentaries. They have code-like features and some became canonical over time. In this workshop we will focus two understudied and related issues: The agency and innovation in the authorship of various explamples of matn/mukhtaṣar, as well as the reception history and re-use.
The workshop will take place in Leiden, 27.-28. Sept. and the aim is to prepare a series of articles for a theme issue.
The workshop is a spin-off from this conference helf in Bergen, June 2022 (link)
Speakers and titles
Confirmed presenters and preliminary titles are:
Hakki Arslan (U. of Münster): The Function of late Mukhtasars in the Hanafi tradition: Mulla Khusraw’s (d. 1480) Ghurar al-aḥkām and Ibrahim al-Halabi's (d. 1549) al-Multaqā in comparison
Mohammad Gharaibeh (Humboldt University of Berlin): Canonization, Codification and Education - Ḥanbalī Jurisprudence in Damascus in the 13th century
Eirik Hovden and Ebrahim Mansoor (U. of Bergen): The Kitāb al-azhār by Ibn al-Murtaḍā (d.837/1436-37), its method of standardization and reception
Katharina Ivanyi (U. of Vienna): A Ḥanafī mukhtaṣar in context: Abū al-Barakāt al-Nasafī‘s (d. 710/1310) Kanz al-daqāʾiq
Mahmood Kooria (Leiden and Bergen): “If al-Ghazālī is a Prophet, the Wajīz is His Miracle”: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s Codification of Shāfiʿī Law
Mohamed Noor (U. of Bergen): The Reception and Canonisation of Minhāj al-ṭālibīn on the Swahili Coast in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Delfina Serrano (Spanish Research Council CSIC): An odd Mālikī Mukhtaṣar: The Tuḥfat al-ḥukkām by Ibn `Āṣim of Granada (1359-1426)
Matthew Steele (Harvard): On Methods, Abridgements, and Authority in the Late Mālikī School: Recovering Khalīl’s Approach to the Mukhtaṣar
Commentators (physical/zoom): Robert Gleave (U. of Exeter) and Mohammed Fadel (U. of Toronto)
Logistics
TBA