Invited Researcher of Atlas Programme Stay in France from October 1st to November 30th, 2020
Dhaou Bsissa in a Tunisian historian with special research interests in the History of Muslim Judicial Institution on modern and Contemporary Tunisian society. He is currently a researcher at the National Archives of Tunisia and He is interests are in the history and anthropology of Muslim societies in Maghreb , with a strong emphasis on the study of Islamic legal texts.
Title: The role of Mufti in Tunisia in the After math of the 19th Century Reforms and During te French Protectorate (1881 – 1956)
Keywords: Law and Society, The Judicial Institutions, Islamic Muftis, Fatwā, Muslim scholarship, Islamic Law
Selected publications
2010 : «Attārif Bi Nasāb āl- ousrā āl- Bayramia»[Identification of the Ancestry of the Bayram Family]. Publisher: Arabesques Tunis, 2010.
2012 : «The Register of Notaries in the Province of Jandouba, 1875 – 1921». In History and Archives.
October 2020:āl-Fatwā wā Sināāt āl-Fatwā bi iyālāt Tounis fi Kāren 16 » « Fātwās and Their Production in Tunisiaat the end of the 16th Century, » Publisher , dār kilmā Tunisia,2020.
Research topics
Islam
law
Muslims
Tunisia
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