Aleem v. Aleem: recognition, public policy and property
The Maryland judgment belongs to a particular procedural history. Its treatment of an overseas divorce cannot be understood from the word talaq alone.
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Dallah: who agreed to arbitrate?
The 2010 enforcement dispute concerned the identity of the party bound by an arbitration agreement and the court’s own examination of jurisdiction.
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What IFSB-10 meant by a governance system
The historical 2009 principles describe roles, competence and review. Their publication and their adoption in a jurisdiction are separate events.
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The asset in infrastructure finance
Lease-based financing becomes more concrete when ownership, use and payment are drawn as separate relationships.
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Islamic finance in the IMF’s 2015 overview
A working paper connects financing structures with monetary policy, regulation and stability. Its categories are useful; its historical setting also matters.
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The Cairo Genizah and the history of legal transactions
A Jewish documentary collection can illuminate a shared regional setting without becoming a single archive of Islamic legal practice.
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FIHRIST: Arabic script is not a subject category
A union catalogue offers a route across collections. Its organizing script should not be mistaken for a common language, genre or religious content.
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Princeton’s Islamic manuscripts and the history of a collection
The route from a collected manuscript to a digital image includes acquisition, cataloguing and selection.
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A volume can contain more than one legal text
The distinction between a physical volume and the works it carries changes how a manuscript enters a bibliography.
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The Mingana Collection beyond a single manuscript
A collection famous for one object also offers a multilingual setting for the study of texts, catalogues and legal history.
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Yemeni legal manuscripts and the work of digitization
An initiative to document manuscripts in private libraries makes preservation, access and the history of ownership part of the research question.
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Gender and legal opinions in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Judith Tucker’s In the House of the Law puts legal thinkers and their treatment of family relationships at the centre of an historical inquiry.
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