Land sales in a Bahrain register, 1913–1921
The Qatar Digital Library’s record IOR/R/15/2/2017 offers a compact lesson in how a register’s arrangement shapes its use as evidence.
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Articles
Case comments, document notes, books and research guides.
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Legal documents in the Arabic Papyrology Database
Receipts, leases, sales and petitions put documentary writing alongside the better-known literature of jurisprudence.
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Islamic law and colonial negotiation in Hussin’s account
The Politics of Islamic Law compares India, Malaya and Egypt while tracing how institutions and political vocabularies were made.
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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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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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