Elizabeth Lhost
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Lhost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lhost |
| SIGNATURE | LHOST E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Research Libraries |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6101-0489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inheritance in the Archive
Law has a strange way of dealing with the everyday. To substantiate its authority, law renders the unclear clear, makes the fuzzy precise, and turns the ordinary into the juridical. It erases context and contingency, and it privileges theory over practice. These patterns are no less prevalent in the domain of Islamic law, where prolific writings on theory have led some scholars to question the existence of practice. Intervening in the theory/prac…
Fingerprints And Fragments
To narrate law’s past, legal history depends on archives. Yet law’s archive, developed to serve law, necessarily dictates history’s terms. Critical legal history challenges this relationship. Inspired by trends in subaltern and postcolonial studies, critical legal historians push back against the dominance of doctrine. They bring the complexities of context and the vagaries of society, economy, and politics to bear on law’s story, framing law as …
Moumtaz, Nada. God’s Property
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. They petitioned the East India Company for employment, lobbied imperial legislators for recognition, and built robust institutions to serve their communities.…
Of Horizontal Exchanges and Inter-Islamic Inquiries
In 1924, the government of Afghanistan wrote to the Jam‘iyat ‘Ulama-yi Hind looking for legal justifications to support Emir Aman Allah Khan's (r. 1919–29) proposed reforms—particularly those relating to female education. Known for securing Afghanistan's independence from the British, and now recognized as a pioneering modernizer and renegade constitutional monarch, Aman Allah introduced a series of reforms during his reign that Faiz Ahmed has re…
To Flower and Fructify
Known primarily for his popular and moralizing novels, Nazir Ahmad’s (1830–1912) accomplishments as a scholar of Islam are often omitted from his biography. Yet in addition to working for the British Government of India, participating in Muslim social, political, and educational initiatives on the subcontinent, and demonstrating his linguistic and legal acumen by translating the law codes of British India into vernacular Urdu, Nazir Ahmad also tr…
From Documents to Data Points
In 1880, the British Government of India passed an act for appointing individuals to the office of qazi to perform and record Muslim marriages. The act, a product of legislative collaboration, framed marriage registration as a solution to countless problems related to marriage. As a result, qazi s and their assistants ( nāʾib s) in places like Meerut recorded thousands of marriages using enumerative categories mirroring those found in colonial re…
Writing Law at the Edge of Empire
When judicial department officials at Bombay began to enforce the British East India Company’s (EIC) authority over the production and authentication of certain types of legal documents in the late 1830s, qāẓī s (Islamic judges) like Sayyid Aḥmad Ḥusain of Bharuch, objected to their loss of authority. In petitions sent to the Governor in Council from the edges of empire, these legal intermediaries objected to the Company’s interference with their…
Political Cartooning, 1870s-Present (India)
Kenan Malik. From Fatwa to Jihad
Writing Law at the Edge of Empire
When judicial department officials at Bombay began to enforce the British East India Company’s (EIC) authority over the production and authentication of certain types of legal documents in the late 1830s, qāẓī s (Islamic judges) like Sayyid Aḥmad Ḥusain of Bharuch, objected to their loss of authority. In petitions sent to the Governor in Council from the edges of empire, these legal intermediaries objected to the Company’s interference with their…
From Documents to Data Points
In 1880, the British Government of India passed an act for appointing individuals to the office of qazi to perform and record Muslim marriages. The act, a product of legislative collaboration, framed marriage registration as a solution to countless problems related to marriage. As a result, qazi s and their assistants ( nāʾib s) in places like Meerut recorded thousands of marriages using enumerative categories mirroring those found in colonial re…
Kenan Malik. From Fatwa to Jihad
Political Cartooning, 1870s-Present (India)
Writing Law at the Edge of Empire
When judicial department officials at Bombay began to enforce the British East India Company’s (EIC) authority over the production and authentication of certain types of legal documents in the late 1830s, qāẓī s (Islamic judges) like Sayyid Aḥmad Ḥusain of Bharuch, objected to their loss of authority. In petitions sent to the Governor in Council from the edges of empire, these legal intermediaries objected to the Company’s interference with their…
To Flower and Fructify
Known primarily for his popular and moralizing novels, Nazir Ahmad’s (1830–1912) accomplishments as a scholar of Islam are often omitted from his biography. Yet in addition to working for the British Government of India, participating in Muslim social, political, and educational initiatives on the subcontinent, and demonstrating his linguistic and legal acumen by translating the law codes of British India into vernacular Urdu, Nazir Ahmad also tr…
From Documents to Data Points
In 1880, the British Government of India passed an act for appointing individuals to the office of qazi to perform and record Muslim marriages. The act, a product of legislative collaboration, framed marriage registration as a solution to countless problems related to marriage. As a result, qazi s and their assistants ( nāʾib s) in places like Meerut recorded thousands of marriages using enumerative categories mirroring those found in colonial re…
Of Horizontal Exchanges and Inter-Islamic Inquiries
In 1924, the government of Afghanistan wrote to the Jam‘iyat ‘Ulama-yi Hind looking for legal justifications to support Emir Aman Allah Khan's (r. 1919–29) proposed reforms—particularly those relating to female education. Known for securing Afghanistan's independence from the British, and now recognized as a pioneering modernizer and renegade constitutional monarch, Aman Allah introduced a series of reforms during his reign that Faiz Ahmed has re…
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. They petitioned the East India Company for employment, lobbied imperial legislators for recognition, and built robust institutions to serve their communities.…
Moumtaz, Nada. God’s Property
Fingerprints And Fragments
To narrate law’s past, legal history depends on archives. Yet law’s archive, developed to serve law, necessarily dictates history’s terms. Critical legal history challenges this relationship. Inspired by trends in subaltern and postcolonial studies, critical legal historians push back against the dominance of doctrine. They bring the complexities of context and the vagaries of society, economy, and politics to bear on law’s story, framing law as …
Inheritance in the Archive
Law has a strange way of dealing with the everyday. To substantiate its authority, law renders the unclear clear, makes the fuzzy precise, and turns the ordinary into the juridical. It erases context and contingency, and it privileges theory over practice. These patterns are no less prevalent in the domain of Islamic law, where prolific writings on theory have led some scholars to question the existence of practice. Intervening in the theory/prac…
Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Law (4 works)