Position:
Mohammed Noah Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Faculty / College Address:
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Email:
talal.al-azem@oxcis.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Islamic law, jurisprudence, and legal systems
- Medieval Muslim education and learning
- The historical transformation of institutions and concepts from the late medieval into the early modern period
Current Projects:
- Education in late Mamluk/early Ottoman Damascus
- Legal precedent in the madhhab-law tradition
Recent Publications:
- "A Mamluk Handbook for Judges and the Doctrine of Legal Consequences (al-mūǧab)", Bulletin d'études orientales 63 (2014), 205–226.
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"The Transmission of Adab: Educational Ideals and their Institutional Manifestations”, in Nadeem A Memon and Mujadad Zaman (eds.), Philosophies of Islamic Education: Historical Perspectives and Emerging Discourses (Routledge: New York and London, 2016)
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Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition: Ibn Quṭlūbughā's Commentary on the Compendium of Qudūrī (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2016)
