Sharia and Kinship in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean

Nada Moumtaz is an assistant professor in the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research stands at the intersection of Islamic legal studies, the anthropology of Islam, and studies of capitalism, and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries in the Levant. She is currently preparing her book “Remaking Islamic Charity: Economy, Religion, and Law in Modern Beirut” for publication.