IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 1001: Medieval Sicily, I: Muslim Jurists and Legal Sources

Sponsor:	Salem Kolleg
Organisers:	John Aspinwall, Salem Kolleg, Überlingen Alex Metcalfe, Department of History, University of Lancaster
Moderator/Chair:	John Aspinwall, Salem Kolleg, Überlingen
Paper 1001-a	The Image of Sicily and Al-Andalus in Early Muslim Sources: A Comparative Approach (Language: English) Mateusz Wilk, Wydział Nauk o Kulturze i Sztuce, Uniwersytet Warszawski Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Literacy and Orality and Religious Life
Paper 1001-b	Muslim Legal Sources in the Historiography of Sicily (Language: English) Alex Metcalfe, Department of History, University of Lancaster Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies and Law
Paper 1001-c	The Mālikī Sources of Law in Muslim Sicily (Language: English) Hossameldin Ali, Fach Geschichte, Universität Konstanz Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - General and Islamic and Arabic Studies
Abstract	This session shall offer a platform to discuss recent research into the history of Muslim rule in Sicily. By offering a focused overview of recent scholarship in the fields of archaelogy, textual studies, and material culture, it will seek to challenge established narratives, redefine the parameters of current historical discourse, and offer new insights into questions of legal culture, historiography, trade, connectivity, and commerce.