Theme issue in Oxford Jounal of Law and Religion
The min bulk of CanCode results are currently in the pipeline. Here you can read about the first theme issue from Cancode, just published (Aug 2024).
Main content
By following this link, you will be taken to the introductory article by Hovden and Mauder.
Eirik Hovden and Christian Mauder: Editorial: The Transmission of Canonised Islamic Legal Knowledge: Practices, Genres, and Institutions. (open access)
Eirik Hovden: Understanding and Framing Change in Islamic Law: Potentials and Possible Pitfalls of the Concepts of “Canonisation” and “Codification” (open access)
Mariam Sheibani: A Tale of Two Ṭarīqas: The Iraqi and Khurasani Shāfiʿī Communities in the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries’
Elias Saba: Canonizing al-Furūq: Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī’s Text on Legal Maxims
Christian Mauder: Playing with the Canon: Ḥanafī Legal Riddles of the Mamluk Period
Mohamed Aidarus Noor: Transmission and Canonisation: The Role of Swahili Scholars in the Canonisation of Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn (open access)
Aria Nakissa: Islamic Universities in Egypt and Indonesia as Tools of Liberal Governance: How States Use them to Canonize Reformed Versions of Islam
Asma Sayeed and Nour-Eddine Qaouar: Mastering Mālikī Law: A Moroccan Case Study
Olav Elgvin: From Transmitting Authority to Quiet Adaptation: Social Change and the Translation of Islamic Knowledge in Norway (open access)
The articles by Elgvin, Hovden and Noor are open access.