Dr. Ahmed M. F. Abd Elsalam
Scholarship holder 10/2005 - 03/2008
Dissertation defense: 28.06.2010
Predicate: magna cum laude
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stefan Leder, Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg
Outline
The relationship of the Bedouin to the Islamic Law in social and historical context: legal concepts, institutions and practice
My dissertation project deals with the legal norms and practices of the Arab Bedouins in the first half of the 20th in the Middle East (Jordan, Palestine, Sinai, Libyan Desert of Egypt and Cordovan in Sudan).
The project focuses on legal praxis and similarities and differences concerning procedural legal aspects and legal norms observed by the Bedouins (especially in according to Criminal Law). The project also looks at the influences of sedentarization on the transformation of Bedouin Law within the context of the legal pluralism debate (customary law versus religious law). It is predicted that an analysis of the historical development of some sanctions will contribute to the understanding of the role of customary law in the formation and development of Islamic law.
Curriculum Vitae
| 10/2005 - 03/2008 | Scholarship of the Graduate School "Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems" of the MLU for the Dissertation "The relationship between Bedouin law and Sharia within social and historical context" |
| 2004 - 2005 | Staff member in the SFB 586 Differences and Integration, the subproject "Contested Autochthony: Land and water rights and the relation of nomadic and sedentary people in South Kordofan, Sudan" |
| 2004 - 2005 | Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the MLU |
| 2004 | M.A. in Islamic Studies (Topic: The Mamluk muh.tasib- office: An Islamic institution in context of socio-political change) |
| 2001 - 2005 | Staff member in the "MENALIB"-project as part of the Special Subject Collection "The Middle East, Including Northern Africa" of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Halle (DFG-Project) |
| 2001 | DAAD-Award at the Martin-Luther-University for foreign students |
| 1998 - 2001 | Collaboration in the project "Pfarrerbuch der KPS" at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies in Pietism at the MLU |
| 1998 - 2003 | Studies: Institute of Oriental Studies at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Arabic, Islamic Studies) |
| 1992 - 1997 | Tour Guide and Tour Operator |
| 1990 - 1992 | Education as Professional in Tourism |
| 1991 | B.A. in German Language |
| 1991 | Awarded by the Faculty of Languages(al-Alsun), Ain-Shams University, Cairo |
| 1987 - 1991 | Studies: Faculty of Languages (al-Alsun), ʿAin Shams University, Cairo (German, Portuguese) |
| 1969 | Born in Damanhur, Egypt |
Publications
- The Practice of Violence in the hisba-Theories. In: Iranian Studies 8,4 (2005), 547-554.
Research Reports
- Kurzbericht zum Forschungsaufenthalt in Ägypten/Sudan (2006)
Study Day Contributions
- Die Autorität des Kontextes bei der Bildung der AHKAM: am Beispiel der Auslegung des koranischen Begriffs "QASAS"
- Anmerkungen zur Anwendung des Begriffs "Allegorie" bei James Clifford in "On Ethnographic Allegory"