The Law of Waqf: Origins to Ottoman-Era Maturity

Friday, May 26, 2006 - Sunday, May 28, 2006
Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School

• Welcome and Introduction
  by Frank E. Vogel, Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program
• Johannes Pahlitzsch
  "Is God the Owner? The Issue of Ownership of Foundations in Byzantium and Islam"
• Alejandro García Sanjuán
  "Stability and Adaptability in the Law of Waqf through the Islamic Jurisprudence from al-Andalus"
• Miriam Hoexter
  "Interaction of Law and Practice: Exchange of Endowed Property"
• Q&A and Discussion

• Murteza Bedir
  "The Law of Waqf as Expounded by a Bukharan Jurist: Burhan as-Sharia al-Bukhari (616/1219)"
• Timothy J. Fitzgerald
  "A New Legal Order: Waqf and the Ottoman Conquest of Aleppo"
• Babak Rahimi
  "The Isfahani Waqf: A Study of the State Legal-Administration of the Waqf Institutions in the Isfahani Stage of the Safavid Rule, 1590-1629 C.E."
• Aharon Layish
  "Waqf of Awlad al-Nas in Aleppo at the End of the Mamluk Period as Reflected in a Family Archive"
• Q&A and Discussion

• Ana Maria Carballeira-Debasa
  "Legal Aspects of Pious Endowments in al-Andalus: Mobility or Immobility of hubs?"
• Sabine Saliba
  "On the Legal Practices of Christian Waqf: A Case Study of a Convent in Pre-Modern Mount Lebanon"
• Sükrü Özen
  "Legitimacy of Innovations and Modifications in Waqf Law During the 16th-17th Centuries of the Ottoman Era"
• Tahsin Ozcan
  "The Legitimization Process of the Cash Foundations: An Analysis of the Application of Islamic Law of Waqf in the Ottoman Society"
• Q&A and Discussion

• Stefan Knost
  "The Alienation of Waqf Property between Shari`a and Local Custom: A Comparative Study of Ottoman Aleppo, Damascus and Jerusalem (18th c.)"
• Randi Deguilhem
  "Regulating Waqf Wealth: Shari`a, Customary Law and Family Waqf Revenues. Fatwas and Court Cases from 18th-Century Damascus"
• Musa Sroor
  "The Khulû Contract and the Privatization of Waqf Property in Jerusalem During the 18th Century"
• Pascale Ghazaleh
  "Waqf on Rights: An Examination of Merchant Waqfs in Early 19th-Century Cairo"
• Q&A and Discussion

• Syed Khalid Rashid
  "Analyzing the Level of Maturity Attained by the Law of Waqf in Mughal India as Shown in the Fatawa al-Alamgiriyya"
• Christoph Werner
  "Legal Handbooks and Court Verdicts: The Application of Waqf Law in Qajar Iran"
• Q&A and Discussion
• Summing-Up
  by Randi Deguilhem, CNRS/IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence

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