A brief selection of studies on Arabic legal documents and Islamic law
Establishing legal evidence in Islamic Law
- Müller, Christian, “Écrire pour établir la preuve oral en Islam. La pratique d’un tribunal à Jerusalem au XIVe siècle”. In A. Saito and Y. Nakamure (eds.), Les outils de la pensée. Études historiques et comparatives des “textes”, París, Les editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2010, pp. 63-97. Müller_2010_EcrireMSH
- Müller, Christian, “The Power of the Pen : Cadis and Their Archives. From Writings to Registering Proof of a Previous Action Taken”, in Manuscripts and Archives. Comparative Views on Record-Keeping, eds. Alessandro Bausi and alii, (Studies in Manuscript Cultures 11), De Gruyter Berlin 2018, 361-385. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110541397-013
Judges and witnesses
- Müller, Christian, Der Kadi und seine Zeugen: Studie der mamlukischen Haram-Dokumente aus Jerusalem, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2013.
Legal thinking (fiqh): the shariatic turn
- Müller, Christian, “Islamische Jurisprudenz als Gottesrecht: Die schariatische Wende des 12. Jahrhunderts”, in Islamische und westliche Jurisprudenz des Mittelalters im Vergleich, Ch. E. Lange, W. P. Müller & Ch. K. Neumann (eds.), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2018, 57-83.
- Müller, Christian, “La fabrique de la charia en Islam : actes notariés et épistémologie juridique à l’épreuve de l’histoire”, in 80 ans de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Francois Bougard and Michel Zink (eds.), Paris, 2019, 51-62.
Signatures
- Zomeño, Amalia and Carro Martín, S., “Identifying the ‘udūl in 15th-century Granada” in M. van Berkel, L. Buskens and P. M. Sijpesteijn (ed.), Legal Documents as Sources for the History of Muslim Societies. Studies in Honour of Rudolph Peters, Leiden, 2017, 109-128. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004343733_007
Studies on specific collections
- Müller, Christian, “The Haram al-Šarif Collection of Arabic Legal Documents in Jerusalem: A Mamluk Court Archive?”. Al-Qanṭara, 32 (2) (2011), pp. 435–459. https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2011.v32.i2.263.
- Zomeño, Amalia, “From Private Collections to Archives: How Christians Kept Arabic Legal Documents in Granada”, Al-Qanṭara, 32 (2) (2011), pp. 461–479. https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2011.v32.i2.265.
