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Amir Toft
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Islamic Law
Ottoman Studies
Arabic
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Islamic World
Egypt
North America
Specialties
Islamic Legal Theory And Practice
Arabic Letters
Ottoman And Modern Mid East History
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Urdu (elementary)
Education
MA | 2014 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
BA | 2005 | Economics | Northwestern University
Abstracts
The construction and function of precedent in Hanafi jurisprudence Sacred and Secular Justice in the Ottoman Empire: The Execution of Râziye and Its Aftermath (c. 1590)