Private Law in Context Across Asia and North Africa

As part of the lecture series “Private Law in Context Across Asia and North Africa”, outstanding scholars regularly speak on the family and succession law systems of Arab and Islamic countries as well as on related topics.

Ayad Yasin Husein Kokha (Salahaddin University-Erbil): The Legal Status of Children Born to ISIL Fighters under Iraqi and Yazidi Family Laws

Date: Feb 4, 2025
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law (until 2024)

Shéhérazade Elyazidi: A New Theory of Family Law – Polygyny in Iraqi Kurdistan

Date: Nov 5, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Dr. Ahmed Rabie (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies/Al-Azhar University): Egyptian family law; analytical perspective

Date: Jun 19, 2024
Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Dr. Dominik Krell (University of Oxford): A Court of Many Languages: Islamic Law and Multilingualism in The Gambia

Date: May 16, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Dr. Béligh Elbalti (Osaka University): 'Conflict of Laws’ in the Islamic Legal Tradition – Between the Principles of Personality and Territoriality of the Law

Date: Apr 25, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Prof. Nathan J. Brown (George Washington University/HIAS Hamburg): Does Studying Islam Change It? How Universities Structure Religion

Date: Feb 22, 2024
Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Ari Schriber (Utrecht University): Sharīʿa, droit musulman, and Colonial Legality: The Conflict of “Paternity Claim” (istilḥāq) in Colonial-Era Moroccan Courts

Date: Nov 30, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Prof. Dr. Latifa Elbouhsini (Université Mohammed V, Rabat): Le double référentiel féministe pour la réforme du code de la famille au Maroc

Date: Aug 24, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino (University of Bern): Intersectionality Matters - New Perspectives on the Study of Islamic Legal Sources

Date: May 25, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Federica Sona (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle): Unilateral Repudiation or Divorce? Ṭalāq Betwixt and Between Diverse (Extra-)Judicial Environments?

Date: Apr 20, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Hoko Horii (Leiden University): Is Child Marriage an Islamic Practice?

Date: Feb 23, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Dr. Bahman Khodadadi (University of Münster): The Theocratic Agency of the Iranian Legal System at the Legislative and Judicial Levels

Date: Jan 19, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

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Ido Shahar (University of Haifa, Israel): Rupture or Continuity in Muslim Family Law: A New Look at the ‘Interpretative Viability’ of Codified Sharīʿa

Date: Dec 8, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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PD Dr. Manfred Sing (University of Freiburg): Islamic Bioethics: Development, Characteristics, Challenges

Date: Oct 6, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: hybrid event

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Professor Mark Fathi Massoud (University of California, Santa Cruz): Shari‘a, Inshallah - A New Book Discussion

Date: Sep 29, 2022
Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Professor Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago): Is Islamic law ethical?

Date: Aug 25, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Prof. Dr. Johanna Pink (University of Freiburg): The Global Qur’an. Transnational dimensions of Qur’an translation

Date: Jun 9, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen): Waqf in Zaydi Yemen

Date: Apr 28, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Dr. Samira Soleymanzadeh (University of Tehran): Maternal Lineage and Nationality – The Perspective of Iran's New Act

Date: Mar 3, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Nils Fischer (Vinzenz Pallotti University): Islamic Bioethics

Date: Feb 17, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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Prof. Soraya Tremayne (University of Oxford) and Prof. Marcia C. Inhorn (Yale University): Infertility and Assisted Conception in the Muslim World: Social, Religious, and Legal Considerations

Date: Jan 27, 2022
Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: online

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