Conference participation at NSMES 2022
The six members of the CanCode team travelled to Reykjavik to take part in the 12th Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern ý (NSMES) called “The Middle East in Myth and Reality” University of Iceland, 22-24 September 2022.

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Several researchers travelled from Bergen, also from CMI and the Mprint project. The CanCode project had to panels:
Canonization, Codification, and Change in Islamic Law (I of II)
Chair: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (University of Copenhagen)
Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen): “Pre-Modern Standardization of Zaydi Law”
Ebrahim Mansoor (University of Bergen): ”History of Pre-Ottoman Zaydi Fiqh”
Monika Lindbekk (University of Bergen): “Codifying Family Relations: Islamic Judicial
Politics in Egypt”.
Canonization, Codification, and Change in Islamic Law (II of II)
Chair: Anne Bang (University of Bergen)
Knut S. Vikør (University of Bergen): “A Community Canon or a Minority Code? Views on Marriage and Divorce Among the Ibāḍīs of Sahara”.
Christian Mauder (University of Bergen): “Playing with the Canon: Ḥanafī Legal Riddles of the Mamluk Period”.
Mohamed Aidarus Noor (University of Bergen): “‘Becoming a Canon’: History, Process and Context in the Canonization of Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn along the Western Indian Ocean Coast in the 19th and 20th Centuries”.