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Category: CALD

CALD scientific aspects / Documents: Archives and Collections / Editorials

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A chrono-spatial survey of Arabic legal documents in CALD

Historians love sources and base their studies on them. Historians of Islamic societies are probably no exception. Historical studies are always limited in time and space, something that also applies to “world history studies”. The documents in the CALD database are a first step towards creating a corpus of sources for the study of the practice of Muslim courts, spanning the 8th to 16th centuries from Central Asia to the Iberian Peninsula. This wide dispersion of legal documents, (more…)

CALD introduction

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CALD: a very short introduction

The database CALD constitutes a new research tool for the comparative study of legal documents in Islam. First developed by the ERC-AdG-project Islamic Law Materialized (ILM), CALD contains meta-data, Arabic text and images of documents from the 7th to the 16th centuries CE from various regions of the Muslim world.

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CALD introduction

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The short inventory number (SIN)

With the short inventory number (SIN) for each document, CALD uses a specific reference that adapts to the requirement of displaying documents in lists and of mass citations: The SIN combines information on place and holding institution, eventually on particular collections within an institution and the inventory number of each specimen.

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CALD introduction

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Mapping content by sequence numbers (SQN)

Sequence numbers are the backbone of scientific study of legal documents in CALD. They are attributed to each textual sequence according to content (or function), the default value being 660 for non-identified content. As such, they reflect the documents’ content in an abstract form that neglects individual details.

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CALD technical

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List of documents published in CALD

This list includes all the documents that are available in the CALD database or will be published soon. It refers to each document by CALD’s short inventory number (SIN), the hiǧrī-year (AH), typology and to conventional editions. The last two columns refer to a publication by “Meta data” and to the fact that the Arabic text is also included.

This list is regularly updated. To see the latest updates, click here.

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CALD discussions on typology / Islamic Law in Granada (15th c.)

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Conquerors validating Arabic legal documents in Granada

Only two items in CALD bear the typology 49933 as they derive from a very specific legal procedure that only took place in Granada after the Conquest in 1492 by the Castilian authorities using Arabic. This two items were preserved in the collection of Arabic documents in the Archivo Municipal de Granada. The structure of both items is clearly that of a question on the validity of the Arabic text written down in the recto of the paper, dated in Rabī‘ II 904/August 1499.

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