The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the American Society for Legal History's (ASLH) 2025 Annual Meeting, to be held November 13–15, 2025 in Detroit, MI. Are we missing a session that you'd like to see here? Send us a note.
November 13, 2025 @ 9:00am
Student Research Colloquium
Faculty Directors: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University and Emily Prifogle, University of Michigan
Conveners: Omar Abdel-Ghaffar, Harvard University and John Wertheimer, Davidson College
Athina Pfeiffer, Princeton University
Law's Allure: Notaries and Legal Practices in the Islamicate Mediterranean (10th-13th Cent.)
November 14, 2025 @ 8:30am
Indebted to the State: The Affective and Economic Lives of Imperial Belonging
Chair & Commentator: Lisa Ford, The George Washington University
Commentator: Nora Barakat, Stanford University
Youssef Ben Ismail, Amherst College
Autonomous Subjects: Genealogies of Equality and Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire
Nora Barakat, Stanford University
Collective Tax Debt, Class Relations and Belonging in the Late Ottoman Empire: Views from Palestine and Syria
Camille Cole, Illinois State University
Debt, Loyalty, and "Good Subjecthood" in Late Ottoman Basra
Lale Can, The City College of New York, CUNY
Convicts and Exiles: Crime, Punishment, and Labor in Late Ottoman History
November 14, 2025 @ 10:15am
Legal Records as Artifacts: Considering the Material Turn in Legal History
Chair: Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins University
Commentator: Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia
Tobias Scheunchen, Yale Law School
Seals, Witness Attestations, and Illiteracy: Validating Arabic Legal Documents in an Age of Judicial Expansion
Athina Pfeiffer, Princeton University
Paper Trails and Debt Tales: The Notary's Craft in Medieval Egypt
Popular Debt and Empire (part 2) (Roundtable)
Chair: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon
Joshua White, University of Virginia
Mudaraba Contracts and Maritime Labor in the Premodern Ottoman Empire
November 15, 2025 @ 4:00pm
New Histories of Ottoman Belonging: Property, Debt and Warfare
Chair & Commentator: Samy Ayoub, University of Texas School of Law
Berke Torunoglu, Bilkent University
"Naked and Penniless in Foreign Lands": Denaturalization of Ottoman-Greeks During the Crimean War (1853-56)
Hazal Ozdemir, University of Michigan
Women's Mobility as a Legal Battlefield: Gendering Armenian Property in the Late Ottoman Empire
Aviv Derri, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Jurisdiction of Debt: Tax-farmers, Indebted Peasants, and Concealed Nationalities in the Late Ottoman Empire
Kate Dannies, Miami University
"A Valid Practice for Half A Century": Breadwinner Soldiers and the Militarization of Islamic Law in the Late Ottoman Empire
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