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Islamic law in South Asia: the Fatawa Alamgiriyya project

This project will produce an interactive website offering the first annotated edition of the Fatawa Alamgiryya in Arabic alongside an English translation.
Project status
Ongoing
Programmes
Academy Research Projects: Ongoing and past awards

Professor Nandini Chatterjee

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University of Oxford

The Fatawa Alamigiryya (henceforth FA) is one of the most comprehensive works of Islamic law ever produced. Compiled in India in the late seventeenth century by a team of Islamic jurists sponsored by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir (reigned 1658-1707 CE), this text travelled far and wide soon after its completion, and continued to be regarded as a major work of reference ever since.

This project will produce an interactive website offering the first annotated edition of the FA text (in Arabic), with line-by-line translations to English alongside. It will identify all places mentioned, legal issues discussed, and works of scholarship cited in the text, and offer further information on each of these. It will also offer mapping and computation such that users will be able to identify patterns of legal authority and argumentation, and visualise a global landscape of Islamic legal thought centred on early modern South Asia.

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