09:30-10:00 Introduction by Christian Müller (Paris)
Approaches
10:00-10:30 Baudouin Dupret (CJB Rabat):"Sharīʿa and the concept of law"
10:30-11:00 Christian Müller (Paris): "Šarīʿa–fiqh and 'Islamic legal system' from the perspective of legal documents"
11:00-11:30 Coffee
Documents and Islamic Law
11:30-12:00 Yossef Rapoport (London): "Taxes and Shariʿah in the medieval village: The Evidence of the Fayyum Tax Register, 1243 AD"
12:00-12:30 Amalia Zomeño (Madrid):"Public Treasury as heir in 15th century Granada"
Lunch
Wednesday13th November : Legal Litterature
14:30-15:00 Éric Chaumont (Aix-Marseille):"L'autorité des textes au sein du šāfi'isme ancien"
15:00-15:30
Jessica Mutter (Chicago): "Ibn Abī Zayd's Risāla and the Medieval Mālikī Pedagogical Canon"
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:30 Bsissa Dhaou (Tunis):"Al-Fatāwā bi-Tūnis bayn 1574 wa 1601:siyāq i ntāğihā wa-ahdāfihā"
Discussion
Thursday14th November Umayyad law?
09:30-10:00 Lena Salaymeh (Berkeley): "Fiqh is applied law: the case of medieval Islamic courts"
10:00-10:30 Steven Judd (New Haven/Connecticut): "Al-Awzāʿī and the 'theory-practice dichotomy'"
10:30-11:00 Coffee
Doctrinal development
11:00-11:30 Mariam Sheibani (Chicago): "Before the Qawāʿid Fiqhiyya:TheSystematization of Legal Precepts"
11:30-12:00 Elias G. Saba (Pennsylvania) : "Highlighting an Creating Difference: The Early History of Legal Distinctions (al-furūq al-fiqhiyya)"
Lunch
Thursday14th November : Interaction between fiqh and legal documents
14:00-14:30 Moez Dridi (Paris): "L'obligation juridique (al-iltizām) dans le droit musulman : ses diverses ramifications à partir des documents légaux et les avis juridiques (fatāwā)"
14:30-15:00 Lahcen Daaif (Paris): "L'istibdāl dans la justice mamelouke: les documents légaux examinés à l'aune des règles du fiqh"
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15h30-16:00 Stefan Knost (Beirut): "The Alienation of Waqf Property between 'theory' and 'practise': A Comparative Study of Aleppo,Damascus and Jerusalem in the Ottoman period"
16:30-17:00 Presentation of the database "Comparing Arabic Legal Documents" (CALD)
Discussion
Friday15th November Substantive law aspects
09:30-10:00 Valentino Cattelan (Oxford):"Contractual doctrines and legal devices (ḥiyal) in classical Islamic law: dominance of commercial practice or materialization of legal theory(-ies)? A comparative study of Sunni madhāhib in the light of fiqh normative pluralism"
10:00-10:30 Janina Safran (Pennsylvania):"Fiqh Discourse and Legal Practice in al-Andalus: The Religion of Children Follows the Father"
10:30-11:00 Coffee
Beyond dār al-islām
11:00-11:30 Jean-Pierre Molénat (Paris):"Peut-on voir une application de la Loi islamique dans les documents arabes chrétiens de Tolède des XIIe et XIIIe siècles?"
11:30-12:00 Mohamed Ouerfelli (Aix-Marseille):"Entre la règle et la pratique: les fuqahā' maghrébins et les relations avec le monde chrétien"
Lunch
Friday 15 th November : Judicial and juridical practices
14:00-14:30 Borham Atallah (Alexandria):"The application of fiqh in Sicily from the ninth till the twelfth century AD"
14:30-15:00Ayang Utriza Yakin (Jakarta):"The Qadi Records (sijill) of "Kiyahi Pĕqih Najamuddin" of the Sultanate of Banten (Indonesia) in the XVIII th Century"
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15h30- 16:00 Ismail Warscheid (Berlin):"Négocier l'application de ce qui est 'in-négociable' : la justice islamique dans le grand Tuwāt (Sahara algérien) à l'époque moderne (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)"