This interview with Sabine
Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, was
conducted by Haytham Samir and Ahmad Shaker and originally
published in Arabic as“al-Dirāsāt al-islāmiyya fī
Princeton,” Markaz Namāʾ li-l-Buḥūth wa-l-Dirāsāt...
It has been nearly sixty years that I have been engaged in an
active scholarly life. My first article came out fifty-eight years
ago, and there are still now two or three studies in the process of
being printed or ready to appear on the Internet. In...
From the very beginning of its existence, the Muslim world
practiced and developed an elaborate legal system meant to control
and to judge all aspects of life . . . This system, known as
sharia, was based on the Qurʾān, an immutable divine...
From the very beginning of its existence, the Muslim world
practiced and developed an elaborate legal system meant to control
and to judge all aspects of life . . . This system, known as
sharia, was based on the Qurʾān, an immutable
divine...
