Algerian women and the making of colonial legal categories
Sarah Ghabrial’s account of her research identifies a project on women, local courts and overlapping legal orders in Algeria between 1870 and 1930.
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Women judges: comparing institutions and working lives
The 2017 collection edited by Nadia Sonneveld and Monika Lindbekk separates public debate about women judges from evidence of judicial practice.
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An official school of law in the Ottoman Empire
Guy Burak’s work makes the formation of an Ottoman legal establishment a question of institutions and periodization.
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Law, empire and secularism in modern South Asia
Julia Stephens’s Governing Islam makes the organization of religion within colonial law part of the historical problem.
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Editors, print and the making of Islamic classics
Ahmed El Shamsy’s history of print culture brings the editor and the production of editions into the account of intellectual authority.
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