Academic Bio
Amir Toft is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Thought and also holds an M.L.S. from the University of Chicago Law School. His primary research interests are in Islamic jurisprudence and Ottoman legal history, and secondarily in legal contacts between Muslims and non-Muslims in the premodern world. His dissertation, which examines homicide in the early modern Ottoman Empire, aims to further improve scholarly understanding of how institutions of law and government worked in premodern Islamicate societies. In the 2017–18 academic year, Amir Toft is a research fellow at the Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law & Civilization at Yale Law School.