A group dedicated to supporting scholarship and teaching on the period from c. 1400 – c. 1650. All regions of the world and disciplines welcome!
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Ijtihād against Madhhab: Legal Hybridity and the Meanings of Modernity in Early Modern Daghestan,” Comparative Studies in Society and History (2015) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThis article explores the interface of multiple legal systems in early modern Daghestan. By comparing colonial engagements with legal plurality with indigenous genres of Daghestani legal discourse, I aim to shed light on the plurality of legal systems that preceded as well as informed legal discourse under colonialism. The Daghestani turn to…[Read more]
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