Mamluk Studies Resources
The Middle East Documentation Center at The University of Chicago
Eleventh Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
Queen Mary University of London
U. K.
May 8-10, 2025
Themed Day Paper Proposal
The deadline for paper proposals is October 31, 2024.
Themed day: Law and Justice in the Mamluk Sultanate (May 8, 2025)
The first day of the conference will be themed and dedicated to the history of law and justice in the Mamluk Sultanate. The Mamluk era saw an unprecedented production of Islamic legal texts, professionalization of legal cadres and distillation of legal doctrines, and intense legal pluralism that went beyond the confines of the Islamic law. This first day of the conference will offer a broad view of law and justice as they affected the entire population of the Sultanate and those who visited it. In terms of legal systems, we welcome studies of Islamic law in the Mamluk context, autonomous laws of non-Muslim communities, and customary non-religious laws of rural and urban communities. A broad definition of law also includes royal decrees and regulations of fiscal administration, including rules concerning the iqṭāʿ land regime. In terms of the history of the judiciary, the themed day is open to studies of the courts of qāḍīs, non-Muslim judges and the provision of justice by government officials and magistrates.
A maximum of 12 paper proposals will be selected. Should a greater number of proposals be received, the authors of those which are not selected for the conference may be offered the possibility to publish their contribution in the proceedings. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes, plus ten minutes for discussion.
Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.
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