New session of the cycle dedicated to sharia, with this conference by Intisar Rabb, professor at Harvard Law School.

The conference is also available on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSEPDYub_Ik

Intisar Rabb’s lecture examines the history of crime and punishment in Islamic societies, comparatively. In most studies of Islamic criminal law, the principles, practices, and justifications for punishment typically operate in siloes separated by a wide plain. This lecture explores the ground where they meet. This lecture focuses on the criminal law principles and practices in Umayyad Syria, ʿAbbasid Iraq, and Mamluk Egypt. In the process, she illustrates the most striking feature of medieval Islamic criminal: it featured a jurisprudence of doubt and lenity in contrast to political practices of control and severity.

Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law, a Professor of History, and the faculty director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. She teaches and publishes on Islamic law and American criminal law in historical and modern contexts, with special focus on criminal law, comparative law of constitutional and statutory interpretation, and Islamic legal canons (qawāʿid fiqhiyya). Her publications including the monograph, Doubt in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press 2015). She also serves as the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Islamic Law (journalofislamiclaw.com), the Islamic Law Blog (islamiclaw.blog), and SHARIAsource (beta.shariasource.com)—an online platform for facilitating new research on Islamic law using data science tools. She received a BA from Georgetown University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University. She has conducted research in Egypt, Iran, Syria, and elsewhere.

Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/shari%E2%80%99a-and-criminal-law-in-medieval-and-modern-times