Browsing by Subject "Islamic Law"
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A Sea of Debt: Histories of Commerce and Obligation in the Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1940
(2012)This dissertation is a legal history of debt and economic life in the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. It draws on materials from Bahrain, Muscat, Bombay, Zanzibar and London to examine how ... -
Hermeneutics of Desire: Ontologies of Gender and Desire in Early Ḥanafī Law
(2016)This dissertation examines the construction of gendered legal subjects in the influential legal works of the eleventh century Ḥanafī jurist, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sarakhsī (d. 483 A.H./1090 C.E.). In particular, I explore ...
