Great to have Ahmad Atif Ahmad at CAIS today

Great to have Ahmad Atif Ahmad at CAIS today
Thursday 20 September 2018

CAIS staff and students were privileged to have Professor Ahmad give an informal discussion on his work. In his own words:

"I have been in love with law and legal epistemology for a long time. The questions of what law is, what it is for, where its legitimacy comes from, how it could be known, and how it evolves over time are exciting to me in their universal form. In my research and teaching, I focus on medieval Islamic law and modern Egyptian law. Law and religion in the Islamic tradition are hard to separate. And, since the establishment of the Egyptian National Courts in 1883, the government has not shied away in its legal activities from establishing religion. Being in this department has exposed me to an array of views on the intersections among law, philosophy, and social knowledge, which does not allow my excitement to run out."

Ahmad Atif Ahmad studied at Harvard and is a professor of religious studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is the author of ‘Islamic Law: Cases, Authorities, and Worldview (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), ‘The Fatigue of the Sharia’ (NYC: Palgrave, 2012), and ‘Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law’ (Leiden: Brill, 2006), Ahmad teaches courses on Islamic legal reasoning in medieval Islam and early modern Egypt.

Professor Ahmad is at ANU to take part in the After the rule: A symposium on alternative traditions of law, norms and rules which was convened by The ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, in collaboration with the ANU Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, with support from the ANU Gender Institute and the Humanities Research Centre.

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