Muslim Everyday Practice and Islamic Legal Dogma

On 9 and 10 November 2018 a conference entitled “Law, Islam and Anthropology” was held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Social anthropologists, legal experts, and Islamic scholars discussed the role of Islamic legal understanding and moral expectations in the everyday life of Muslim believers; presentations drew on empirical studies on topics such as conflict regulation, family law, and credit financing.

On 9 and 10 November 2018 a conference entitled “Law, Islam and Anthropology” was held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Social anthropologists, legal experts, and Islamic scholars discussed the role of Islamic legal understanding and moral expectations in the everyday life of Muslim believers; presentations drew on empirical studies on topics such as conflict regulation, family law, and credit financing.
Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, welcomes the participants of the conference "Law, Islam and Anthropology" at the MPI ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Hatem Elliesie, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, welcomes the participants and introduces the theme of the conference "Law, Islam and Anthropology" ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Dörthe Engelcke, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Dominik Müller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Kai Kreutzberger, Berlin (from left to right) ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Yafa Shanneik, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom ■ Chair of the first panel ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ■ Title of her talk: Anthropologists in the Field of Islam: An Auto-Ethnographic Note on Ethics, Integrity and Academic Freedom ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Carolin Görzig, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Iris Sportel, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands ■ Title of her talk: Muslim Family Law Across Borders – Law in the Everyday Life of Transnational Families ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Vishal Vora, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Chair of the second panel ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Imad Alsoos, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Björn Bentlage, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ■ Chair of the third panel ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Bertram Turner, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of his talk: Anthropology of Code Switching: Navigating Religion and Normativity in Rural Morocco ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Hatem Elliesie, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Presentation of the Festschrift on the occasion of Hans-Georg Ebert’s 65th birthday ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Hans-Georg Ebert, Institute of Oriental Studies, Universität Leipzig ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Peter Scholz, Freie Universität Berlin / Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, chairperson of GAIR’s board of trustees, presents the Association’s dissertation award to the prize-winner Serdar Kurnaz, University of Hamburg ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Serdar Kurnaz, Universität Hamburg ■ GAIR-Dissertation Award Presentation: The Theory of Bayān and its Relation to the Methods of Deriving Norms (istinbāṭ al-aḥkām) from Qur’an and Sunna in Islamic Legal Thinking ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Dörthe Engelcke, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law ■ Title of her talk: Adjudicating Christian Family Law in Jordan: Legal Borrowing Across Religious Lines? ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Kai Kreutzberger, Berlin ■ Chair of the third panel ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Mouez Khalfaoui, Universität Tübingen ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Reik Kirchhof, Berlin ■ Title of his talk: Disintegration within Integration – The Impossibility of Islamic Law: Realigning Field Observations of Islamic Normativity with New Theoretical Concepts of Normative Orders and Law ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Dominik Müller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Title of his talk: The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Participants of the conference entitled “Law, Islam and Anthropology” held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 9 and 10 November 2018 ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology