Amir Toft: Freeing the Kadi’s Justice: Max Weber and Methodology in Islamic Legal Studies

Dear colleagues,

Please join us on Thursday, January 31st for a presentation by Amir Toft (NELC PhD) on “Freeing the Kadi’s Justice: Max Weber and Methodology in Islamic Legal Studies”.

Description: In this paper, I rethink Weber’s Kadi-justice, ignoring its substantive merit as a statement about Islamic legal practice and returning it to its original context of his Sociology of Law. I show that, properly read, Kadi-justice was deployed primarily to attack Anglo-American law. I argue that, because the concept’s original purpose undermines its utility for examining Islamic law, the term muddies the waters of Islamic legal studies, and scholars in this field ought to summarily abandon it.

The paper will be sent out upon individual request. Please contact the coordinators and/or the presenter directly.

Time/location: 2-3:30 at Swift 400

Light refreshments will be served.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Best,

Zahra Moeini & Allison Kanner

ISW coordinators 2018-19

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