Omar Anchassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 713093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omar Anchassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omar |
| FAMILY NAME | Anchassi |
| SIGNATURE | ANCHASSI O |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Islamic Law in Context
This volume surveys the diversity of Islamic legal thought and practice, a 1500 - year tradition that has been cultivated throughout the Islamic world. It features translations of Islamic legal texts from across the spectrum of literary genres (including legal theory, judicial handbooks, pamphlets) that represent the range of temporal, geographic and linguistic contexts in which Islamic law has been, and continues to be, developed. Each text has …
The Churning in the Flogging of ʿUmayra
This article traces juristic debates on the ethics of masturbation from the formative period of Islamic law to the early nineteenth century. I document the appearance of discussions of the practice in the earliest extant sources and explore how masturbation figures in the Sunnī and Šīʿī ḥadīṯ corpora with attention to regional patterns of dissemination. I also address the terminology used by jurists and point to material in encyclopaedias, adab a…
Against Ptolemy
This article explores how mutakallimūn engaged with competing visions of the cosmos-traditionalist and Aristotelian-Ptolemaic-to the beginning of the sixth/ twelfth century. Drawing on works of kalām, Quran commentary, and items from other genres, I demonstrate that rationalist theologians remained divided on such questions as the shape of the earth to the end of this period. These disagreements, moreover, cannot be explained in terms of school a…
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
ʿAṭāʾ [
Status Distinctions and Sartorial Difference
This article explores how jurists articulated the distinction between free and enslaved Muslim women through sartorial norms in the formative and early post-formative periods of Islamic law. Drawing on works of fiqh (positive law), tafsīr (Qurʾān commentary) and ḥadīth (Prophetic and non-Prophetic reports), I posit that this distinction attests to the tensions between “proprietary” and “theocentric” sexual ethics, as noted by Hina Azam. Specifica…
In Quest of Justice
Historians have been preoccupied for some time with the question of how Islamic law came to be transformed in the last two hundred or so years and the role this has played in the emergence of modern Middle Eastern states. All too frequently, this conversation has lacked granularity; it has taken place without reference to the vast archival records that document this transition in intimidating detail
Modern Things on Trial
The late writer and intellectual George Ṭarābīshī (d. 1437/2016) observes that when the tomato first made its appearance in late nineteenth century Aleppo, locals took to denouncing it as ‘the Devil’s arse’ (mu’akhirat al-shayṭān) on account of its colour. The muftī of the city, who remains curiously unnamed in this account, is said to have issued a fatwa on its prohibition.1 Unsurprisingly, no source is given for this anecdote, but the point is …
Status Distinctions and Sartorial Difference
This article explores how jurists articulated the distinction between free and enslaved Muslim women through sartorial norms in the formative and early post-formative periods of Islamic law. Drawing on works of fiqh (positive law), tafsīr (Qurʾān commentary) and ḥadīth (Prophetic and non-Prophetic reports), I posit that this distinction attests to the tensions between “proprietary” and “theocentric” sexual ethics, as noted by Hina Azam. Specifica…
In Quest of Justice
Historians have been preoccupied for some time with the question of how Islamic law came to be transformed in the last two hundred or so years and the role this has played in the emergence of modern Middle Eastern states. All too frequently, this conversation has lacked granularity; it has taken place without reference to the vast archival records that document this transition in intimidating detail
Modern Things on Trial
The late writer and intellectual George Ṭarābīshī (d. 1437/2016) observes that when the tomato first made its appearance in late nineteenth century Aleppo, locals took to denouncing it as ‘the Devil’s arse’ (mu’akhirat al-shayṭān) on account of its colour. The muftī of the city, who remains curiously unnamed in this account, is said to have issued a fatwa on its prohibition.1 Unsurprisingly, no source is given for this anecdote, but the point is …
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
ʿAṭāʾ [
Status Distinctions and Sartorial Difference
This article explores how jurists articulated the distinction between free and enslaved Muslim women through sartorial norms in the formative and early post-formative periods of Islamic law. Drawing on works of fiqh (positive law), tafsīr (Qurʾān commentary) and ḥadīth (Prophetic and non-Prophetic reports), I posit that this distinction attests to the tensions between “proprietary” and “theocentric” sexual ethics, as noted by Hina Azam. Specifica…
The Churning in the Flogging of ʿUmayra
This article traces juristic debates on the ethics of masturbation from the formative period of Islamic law to the early nineteenth century. I document the appearance of discussions of the practice in the earliest extant sources and explore how masturbation figures in the Sunnī and Šīʿī ḥadīṯ corpora with attention to regional patterns of dissemination. I also address the terminology used by jurists and point to material in encyclopaedias, adab a…
Against Ptolemy
This article explores how mutakallimūn engaged with competing visions of the cosmos-traditionalist and Aristotelian-Ptolemaic-to the beginning of the sixth/ twelfth century. Drawing on works of kalām, Quran commentary, and items from other genres, I demonstrate that rationalist theologians remained divided on such questions as the shape of the earth to the end of this period. These disagreements, moreover, cannot be explained in terms of school a…
Islamic Law in Context
This volume surveys the diversity of Islamic legal thought and practice, a 1500 - year tradition that has been cultivated throughout the Islamic world. It features translations of Islamic legal texts from across the spectrum of literary genres (including legal theory, judicial handbooks, pamphlets) that represent the range of temporal, geographic and linguistic contexts in which Islamic law has been, and continues to be, developed. Each text has …
Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Theology (3 works)