meetings
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
4:30 pm, 254 Barrows
"Producing Memory and Identity one case at a time: The Islamic Law Court and the Ottoman Social Imaginaries"
Beshara Doumani, University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract
Readings:
B. Doumani (2003): "Adjudicating the Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860" in Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender, edited by B. Doumani, SUNY Press
Discussants:
Ron Hendel, Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
hendel@berkeley.edu
Faiz Ahmed, graduate student, Dept. of History