Iremam - UMR 7310 - 1. Law: Sources, Practices and Customs

Contributors: Ghislaine Alleaume, Isabelle Grangaud, Brigitte Marino, Michel Tuchscherer.

This theme is a continuation of research that has been conducted for a few years at the Iremam on urban history, inventories after death and ownership. It is based around three programs:

• “Local Belonging in the Mediterranean: Social relations, law, claims”: The activities of this program aim in particular to compile a dictionary of words related to belonging (Isabelle Grangaud).
• “Disposing of Property, Passing on an Inheritance”. It is through the parallel study of two legal instruments, the foundations (waqf) and the wills (wasiyya) that are articulated, for Damascus in the Ottoman era, the researches on the transmission of the patrimonies and their incomes (Brigitte Marino).

“Ottoman and Early Modern Alexandria”: Coordinated since 2001 by the Centre for Alexandrine Studies (CEALex) in collaboration with IREMAM, this program carries out research on the treatment, analysis and sharing of the enormous collection of legal acts, in particular the acts of waqf, compiled up to the present day on the city of Alexandria. More...