Professor Ismail Cebeci is Head of Research and Encyclopaedias Department at 'The International Islamic Fiqh Academy' and Islamic Law lecturer at Marmara University, Istanbul. He completed his MA in Islamic Law at Marmara University, with a dissertation on the “Sheikh al-Islams’ Fatwas in the Late Ottoman Period” (2001), and his PhD with his dissertation, titled “A Critical Analysis of Murabaha Debates in Modern Islamic Economics” (2010). During his graduate study, he spent two years at Jordan University in Amman, where he took graduate-level classes on Islamic economics, fiqh al-muamalat and legal studies. Between 2010 and 2012 he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) and a Visiting Scholar at Islamic Legal Studies Program (ILSP), Harvard Law School. He also worked as a researcher at The Centre for Islamic Studies (ISAM). Cebeci taught many lectures on different areas of Islamic Law. He has many publications in different languages. 

The presentation aims to discuss the methodology of collective reasoning (ijtihad) activity in the face of contemporary jurisprudential issues in the Islamic world. It will first provide theoretical information on collective ijtihad, and contemporary fiqh problems, before moving on to examine the decisions of some institutions of collective ijtihad in the Islamic world.

This seminar will begin at 5pm in the Centre's Cordoba Room. Prior booking is not required. All welcome.