Ismail Warscheid
Islamic Jurisprudence and the Making of Social Order in the Central and Southern Sahara between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century (Far South of Algeria, Mauritania, Northern Parts of Mali)
Ismail Warscheid studied History, Classical Arabic and Social Anthropology at the University of Geneva and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2013, he completed his Ph.D. in History at the EHESS. His doctoral dissertation focuses on Islamic legal practice in the Algerian Tuwāt oasis during the eighteenth century. It is based on the analysis of local jurisprudence corpora (nawāzil) as well as other Arabic manuscripts. The documentation was mostly collected during several field research stays in Algeria. These still mainly unexplored works reflect nothing less than the perpetual social negotiation concerning how Islamic normativity should be applied in situ.
Islamic Jurisprudence and the Making of Social Order in the Central and Southern Sahara between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century (Far South of Algeria, Mauritania, Northern Parts of Mali)
As a Rechtskulturen Fellow, Ismail Warscheid aims to widen the field of investigation from the Algerian materials to jurisprudence collections originating from Mali, Mauritania and southern Morocco. He will particularly consider the question of how Islamic legal reasoning intervened in the construction of pre-modern Saharan social hierarchies. His aim is to present an innovative contribution towards the historization of normative orderings in West and North Africa before 1900.
All fellows
