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Rechtskulturen workshop, BerlinIslamic normativity and the making of legal culture in rural contexts, 27 May 2014 at Humboldt Law School, room E23Convener: Ismail Warscheid (RECHTSKULTUREN Fellow 2013-14)Program09.00 OpeningWords of welcome Round of introduction9.15-10.45 Law and literacy in Muslim rural societiesIsmail Warscheid (RECHTSKULTUREN Fellow 2013-14, Berlin/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)Law as an agent of acculturation? Some reflections on Islamic scholarship in the Sahara before 1800Thibaut d’Hubert (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-14, Berlin/University of Chicago) Fiqh and the figure of the qadi in premodern Bengali literature11.00-12.30 The question of normative pluralismMartha Mundy (London School of Economics and Political Sciences) Arendtian triad: against Islamic LawRuud Peters (University of Amsterdam)Sharia in the Desert: Legal documents from the Dakhla Oasis in Ottoman Egypt&#160;14.15-15.45 Islamic legal thought and community institutions in the MaghribHouari Touati (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)The responsa of Abū ʿImrān al-Fāsī (d. 430/1048) and the question of rural dissidenceJudith Scheele (All Souls College, University of Oxford)The sharî‘ah and the multitude: local councils in rural Algeria16.00-17.30 The Imperial state as an instance of recourseAstrid Meier (Orient Institut Beirut/Universität Halle)“Bedouins” in the Ottoman courts of Damascus and HamaBasak Tug (EUME Fellow 2013-14, Berlin/Bilgi University Istanbul)Petitioning and Sexual Crime in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia17.30-18.00 Wrap-up and final discussion