The Islamic Legal
Studies Program,
Harvard Law School,
presents

The Islamic Salam Contract Workshop

The salam is a forward contract that has been used as a major tool for capital investment in unequal exchange. It has also played an important role in the transition of some Near Eastern economies to modern capitalist forms.

The workshop will focus on the analysis of the function assigned to this contract in the diffusion of the textile industry in the Muslim world from the 8th to the 12th centuries, as well as in the transition to a capitalist agriculture in 19th-century Egypt and to a concentration of capital and political power in the hands of Palestinian entrepreneurs in the 19th-20th centuries. The workshop features presentations by Baber Johansen (Harvard Divinity and Law Schools), Kenneth Cuno (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Beshara Doumani (University of California, Berkeley).

Pound 332
Harvard Law School

SPACE IS LIMITED; if you are interested in attending, please send an email by February 13 to ilsp@law.harvard.edu with your academic affiliation.