Friday, 09 November 2018
Venue: Main Seminar Room, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome Address
Marie-Claire Foblets (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department ‘Law & Anthropology’, Halle, Germany)
Irene Schneider (Chairperson of the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (GAIR), Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany)
Susan Rutten (Chairperson of the Vereniging tot bestudering van het recht van de Islam en het Midden-Oosten (RIMO), Professor of Islamic Family Law in a European Context and Private Law at Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
10.30 Anthropologists in the Field of Islam: An Auto-Ethnographic Note on Ethics, Integrity and Academic Freedom
Annelies Moors (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Chair: Yafa Shanneik (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
11.15 Coffee break
11.45 Muslim Family Law Across Borders – Law in the Everyday Life of Transnational Families
Iris Sportel (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Chair: Vishal Vora (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
13.15 Lunch
14.30 Anthropology of Code Switching: Navigating Religion and Normativity in Rural Morocco
Bertram Turner (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
Chair: Björn Bentlage (Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg, Halle, Germany)
15.15 Coffee Break
15.45 Presentation of the Festschrift on the Occasion of Prof.
Dr. Hans-Georg Ebert’s 65th Birthday
Chair: Irene Schneider (Chairperson GAIR, Germany)
16.00 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
Serdar Kurmaz (Hamburg University, Germany)
Chair: Irene Schneider (Chairperson GAIR, Germany)
16.30 The Sachsen-Anhalt Ṣukūk and Real Estate Acquisitions of ‘Islamic’ Investors
Martin Bünning (Ashurst LLP, Frankfurt, Germany) Chair: Kai Kreutzberger (Berlin, Germany)
17.15 GAIR: Meeting of members
Main Seminar Room
RIMO: Meeting of members
Small Seminar Room
18.30 Meeting of the GAIR Working Group ‘Islamic Legal Teaching’
Small Seminar Room
19.00 Informal get-together / Dinner at a local restaurant on own expenses
Saturday, 10 November 2018
Venue: Main Seminar Room, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
09.00 GAIR’s Executive and Consultative Board Meeting Small Seminar Room
10.00 Filling Gaps in Legislation: The Use of Fiqh by Contemporary Courts (Morocco, Egypt, and Indonesia) Baudouin Dupret (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Chair: Federica Sona (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
11.30 Coffee break
12.00 Disintegration within Integration – The Impossibility of Islamic Law: Realigning Field Observations of Islamic Normativity with New Theoretical Concepts of Normative Orders and Law
Reik Kirchhof (Berlin, Germany)
Chair: Jörn Thielmann (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
12.45 The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia
Dominik Müller (DFG Emmy Noether Research Group/MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
Chair: Jörn Thielmann (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
13.15 Informal get-together / Lunch at a local restaurant on own expenses
13.30 Meeting of the MPI-Director and the Executive Boards of RIMO and GAIR, Small Seminar Room