Talal Al-Azem

Ph.D., 2011, Oxford University

talal.alazem@bogazici.edu.tr
Research Interests: 

Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate education, Muslim law and jurisprudence, Sufism, social and cultural history in Syria-Egypt, formations of the self.

Teaching: 

HIST 49U: History of Knowledge, Learning and Education in Islamicate Societies

HIST 58F: Learning and Education in Islamicate Societies: Sources and Methods

LAW 209: Legal History

Selected Publications: 

Rule Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition: Ibn Quṭlūbughā’s Commentary on the Compendium of Qudūrī (Leiden: Brill, 2016).

‘The Practice of Engagement: Research and Teaching as Conversations with an Other’s Tradition’ (with with Johan Rasanayagam) in Dialogues: Anthropology and Theology, special issue of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, edited by Adam Reed and Naomi Haynes, 28/1 (2022): 297–347.

‘Conscience and Action in the Madhhab-Law Tradition’, in Emily Corran and Morgan Clarke (eds.), Rules, Ethics and Conscience: Perspectives from Anthropology and History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).

‘The Transmission of Adab: Educational Ideals and Their Institutional Manifestations,’ in Philosophies of Islamic Education: Historical Perspectives and Emerging Discourses, edited by Mujadad Zaman and Nadeem A. Memon, 112–26 (New York and London: Routledge, 2016).

‘A Mamluk Handbook for Judges and the Doctrine of Legal Consequences (al-mūjab)’, Bulletin d’Études Orientales 63 (2015): 205–226.


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