Book Launch: Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia by Dominik Krell

Name: Book Launch: Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia by Dominik Krell
Start: 2025-12-01
End: 2025-12-01

Speaker(s):

Dominik Krell

Series:

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Associated with:

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Notes & Changes

For the full schedule of seminars, please refer to the CSLS Seminar Series Michaelmas Term Card. If you are unable to attend in person, you can join via the Zoom link provided.

About the event

Event date:

1 December 2025

Event time:

11:30 - 13:00

Oxford week:

MT 8

Audience:

Anyone

Venue:

Hybrid - Manor Road Building - Seminar Room G & Online - Zoom

Registration:

Zoom link

Organised by:

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Who to contact:

We would like to invite you to the book launch: Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia by Dominik Krell (BRILL 2025).

The book offers an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the twenty-first century. Drawing on Saudi legal literature and court judgments, as well as interviews with leading members of the judiciary, the author addresses two central questions: first, what is the Saudi jurists’ understanding of an Islamic judiciary? And second, how is this understanding reflected in the Saudi legal system, its laws, institutions, and court practices?

The event will feature three speakers who will comment on the book: