Program, Conference on "Constitutional Experiences in the Middle East & North Africa,” Orient-Institute Beirut (Lebanon), 6-7 Nov. 2014

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This conference aims at exploring concepts and practices related to constitutional experiences prior and parallel to the occurrence of written constitutions. Combining political, intellectual, legal and social history across the region, the conference combines papers on legal and organizational frameworks, administrative bodies, associations, councils, corporate structures, customs, as well as discourses of rule, power and statehood aimed at containing authority.

Education

Constitutional Experiences in the
Middle East and North Africa
(from approx. 18th to 20th century)
Conference at the Orient-Institut Beirut
Beirut, 6-7 November 2014

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday, November 6-2014
10.00 – 10.15 Stefan Leder
Welcome and Introduction
10.30-13.00 TheEmergenceof ModernConstitutions andTheirContexts
Chair: Nadine Méouchy (Institut français du Proche-Orient, Beirut)
Zülâl Muslu
(Ouest Nanterre La Défense University, Paris / Max-Planck-Institute
for European Legal History, Frankfurt)
The fundamental law of 1876: The constitution of the Ottoman changing
sovereignty
Coffee break
Nora Lafi
(Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Constitutional debates in their context in late Ottoman Tunis (1857-1881):
Reinterpreting the roots and development of political modernity
Michelle Brunelli
(Bergamo State University)
The ideological roots of the constitutional revolution in Persia. Different
souls for one goal
Lunch
14.00-17.30 ContainingAuthority: Norms andFrameworks of Legal Thought
Chair: Martha Mundy (The London School of Economics and Political
Science)
Bettina Dennerlein
(University of Zurich)
Negotiating political authority. Contention and compliance in pre-colonial
Morocco
Ismail Warscheid
(German Historical Institute, Paris / Institut des mondes africains
(CNRS), Paris)
The ğamāʿa and its jurists: Islamic legal thought and community structures
in pre-modern Saharan societies (1600-1800)

Coffee Break
Malek Sharif
(Beirut/ Münster)
Debates and deliberations of Ottoman Syrians during the first constitutional
period
Hassan Hallak
(Beirut Arab University)
The Ottoman constitutional process, interior and exterior instigations
Lecture in Arabic, translation provided
Friday, November 7-2014
9.30-13.30 Legal PracticeandDiscourseintheVicinityandWakeof Constitutions
Chair: Astrid Meier (Orient-Institut Beirut)
Will Hanley
(Florida State University, Tallahassee)
Sharing hegemony: Constitutional pluralism in practice in late nineteenth
century Egypt
Ghina Mourad
(Université Libanaise, Tripoli)
Local authorities and institutions and their transformation in constitutional
law
Lecture in Arabic, translation provided
Baṣak Tuǧ
(Istanbul Bilgi University)
Constitutional experiences in Ottoman legal practice, 18th & 19th centuries
Coffee Break
Huseyin Yilmaz
(George Mason University, Fairfax)
From Kanun-i Kadim to Kanun-i Esasi: Law and constitutionalism in late
Ottoman
Farouq Hoblos
(Université Libanaise, Tripoli)
The Tripoli Sharia Court in the context of political administration and
juridical institutions
Lecture in Arabic, translation provided
Lunch

14.30 -17.00 Legal andIdeological Dimensions of Constitutional Processes
Chair: Stefan Leder (Orient-Institut Beirut / Martin Luther
University of Halle-Wittenberg)
Elizabeth F. Thompson
(University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
Rashid Rida & the 1920 Syrian Constitution: The last stand of Islamic
liberalism
Maaike Voorhoeve
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
The first constitution of the Arab world: The Tunisian Qanun al-dawla
between fact and fiction?
Coffee Break
Hafidha Chekir
(Association Tunisienne des Femmes Démocrates, Tunis)
L’histoire constitutionnelle de la Tunisie: une histoire singulière marquée
par des réformes modernes et des contestations sociales
17.00 – 17.15 Stefan Leder
Conclusion
Address
Orient-Institut Beirut
Rue Hussein Beyhum, Zokak el-Blat
P.O.Box 11-2988
Beirut – Lebanon,
Tel.: +961 (0)1 359 424-427
Fax: +961 (0)1 359 176
Uwww.orient-institut.orgU

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