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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Case comments, document notes, books and research guides.
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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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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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Writing and authority in The Calligraphic State
Brinkley Messick’s account of highland Yemen follows texts through the practices and institutions that gave them authority.
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What a history of legal formation has to explain
Wael Hallaq’s Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law provides a starting point for separating the history of texts from the development of legal institutions.
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Two provincial courts in Ottoman Anatolia
Boğaç Ergene’s study of Çankırı and Kastamonu offers a comparison of legal practice through two bounded bodies of court records.
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