The Sharia: A Contested Legacy of the „Arab Revolutions“?

Legal Cultures and Change in the Arabic World

The Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" is organizing an international conference on September 20 entitled “The Sharia: A Contested Legacy of the 'Arab Revolutions'? Legal Cultures and Change in the Arabic World“. This very topical subject will be addressed inter alia by philosopher of Syrian descent Dr. Sadik Al-Azm, Islamic studies scholars Prof. Dr. Asma Afsaruddin and Prof. Dr. Jamal Malik, renowned Indian legal scholar Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Upendra Baxi, as well as former prime minister of Jordan and judge at the International Court of Justice Awn Schawkat Al-Khasawneh.

Deutschlandfunk report on the conference “The Sharia: A Contested Legacy of the ‘Arab Revolutions’? Legal Cultures and Change in the Arabic World”

Deutschlandfunk published the report “Sehnsucht nach Religion. Re-Islamisierung und Scharia nach der ‘Arabellion’” on the international conference “The Sharia: A Contested Legacy of the ‘Arab Revolutions’? Legal Cultures and Change in the Arabic World” organized by the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" on September 20, 2012. To the report.