AIS faculty member Felicitas Opwis presents at Istanbul University

Professor Felicitas Opwis presented a paper, “Between Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa and Tashrīʿ Islāmī: Ibn ʿĀshūr’s Navigation of the Secondary Rules of Law,” at a conference at Istanbul University.

The conference, titled Reformulation and Hermeneutics: Researching the History of Islamic Legal Theory, took place from February 21-24th, 2016. It was organized by the Faculty of Theology, Istanbul University and the Islamic Reformulations Project, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.