Contemporary representations of Islamic and Jewish law (B04)

• Subject Area: Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies ; Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403589434

Building on our recent research on responsa and fatwas in Jewish and Islamic law, the project investigates how these genres have changed over the past decades owing to the influence of (a) new media and (b) the integration into positive law on a national level. We have observed that the traditional genres “responsa” and “fatwa” have dissolved to some extent and have come to mix and interfere with new forms of representation, some of them pop-cultural, such as podcasts, videos, TV series, but also law reports and other genres of secular origin. Therefore, the project addresses the entire range of these functionally interrelated forms of representation.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1385: Law and Literature
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Regina Grundmann; Professor Dr. Norbert Oberauer