Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar Series

Imperial Waqfs: Global Islamic Law in the 19th Century
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University

Thursday, October 8
12 to 1:30 p.m.
Weiser Hall, 10th floor

Nurfadzilah Yahaya is an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. She received her BA (2003) and MA (2006) from the National University of Singapore, and her PhD (2012) in History from Princeton University. Before coming to Yale, she taught at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Yahaya specializes in history of Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean history, legal history, history of infrastructure, and environmental history. Her first book, Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) demonstrates how colonial subjects entrenched European colonial legalities in British and Dutch territories in Southeast Asia by playing several jurisdictions against one another from the mid-nineteenth century onwards

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