Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable
Mohammad Fadel (Professor of Law, University of Toronto) and Connell Monette (Vice President of Academic Affairs, American Academy Casablanca) organized a PIL Forum Roundtable on the recent publication of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ – Recension of Yahya b. Yahya al-Laythī (d. 234/848) by Mālik b. Anas, distributed through Harvard University Press. This translation is based on the recently published Royal Moroccan Edition of the Muwaṭṭaʾ (Casablanca: Maṭbaʿat al-najāḥ al-jadīda, 2013/1434), and was commissioned by the Moroccan Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs. A team of Moroccan translators, under the supervision of Mohammad Fadel and Connell Monette, editors, working over the course of several years, prepared the translation.
Below are the essays contributed to the Roundtable on the ISLAMICLAWblog. Leading scholars which scholars comment on various aspects of the translation; some engage substantively with particular topics or themes in the Muwaṭṭaʾ, others comment on the translation and its style, and some combine elements of both.
Part of the Online Companion for Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Royal Moroccan Edition: The Recension of Yaḥyā Ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī.
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The Handmaiden’s TaleBy Kecia Ali, Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion Department at Boston University |
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Mālik, the Muwaṭṭaʼ and Sunni IdentityBy Jonathan Brown, Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University |
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Zakāt, Wealth Tax and Extreme InequalityBy Mahmoud El-Gamal, Professor of Economics and Statistics, and Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance, and Management at Rice University |
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Al-Shāfiʿī’s Recension of Mālik’s MuwaṭṭaʾBy Ahmed El Shamsy, Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago |
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Medina, the Mashriq, and the Maghrib in the recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʼ by the Cordoban Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī
By Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the National High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid (Spain) |
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The Virtues of TranslationBy Jocelyn Hendricks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of Alberta |
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Who Are We Writing for When We Translate Classical Texts?By Marion Katz, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU |
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Journey of the Muwaṭṭaʾ in different periods of the history of South Asia: Shāh Walīyullāh’s Pursuit of MālikBy Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of Islamic studies in Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and Department of History. |
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Debates on free will and predestination in the 12th century Islamic West: Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī's Kitāb al-Qabas fī Sharḥ Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik Ibn AnasBy Delfina Serrano-Ruano, PhD Tenured Researcher at the National High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid (Spain) |
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Which is Superior: Medina or Mecca? The Muwaṭṭaʾ on the Unique Status of Medina and Its Scholarly CommunityBy Mariam Sheibani, Research Fellow at Harvard Law School |
