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within the Hanafi school were carefully reproduced in the texts of generations

  of Hanafi jurists throughout the Islamic world. (Cf. Mullā Khusraw 1877:

  128; al-Marghīnānī 1937: 903.)

  47. See for example Sarakhsī 1970–79, 24: 156–84.

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  48. Ahmed al-Mostari: 51b.

  49. al-Mar

  ghīnānī claimed that Muammad al-Shaybānī (d. 809), the celebrated

  student of Abū anīfa, reported that this latter had said: “When 120 years have

  passed from the day of his birth, we declare him to be dead.” al-Marghīnānī

  says that some other Hanafi jurists held that this period should be 100 (Abū

  Yūsuf) or 90 years. (Cf. al-Marghīnānī 1937: 905.)

  50. Ahmed

  al-Mostari: 52a. Osman Lavić has claimed that Mu‘īn al-Quāt was

  a manual for judges composed by Muammad b. Sulaymān. Unfortunately,

  no other information is available about this author. (Cf. Dobrača et al. 1996–

  2004, 10: 445.)

  51. Ahmed al-Mostari: 52b.

  52. al-Mar

  ghīnānī 1937: 903.

  53. Ahmed al-Mostari: 52a.

  54. al-Sarakhsī 1970–79, 21: 236.

  55. al-Mar

  ghīnānī 1937: 904.

  56. Mālik b.

  Anas 1989: 266.

  57. While

  Mālik b. Anas does not explain the circumstances that led ‘Umar b.

  Khaāb to determine that the wife of a missing husband had to wait fours

  years before she could begin the waiting period between two marriages, both

  al-Sarakhsī and al-Marghīnānī claim that ‘Umar b. Khaāb determined that

  the wife of a man who had been carried away from Medina by jinn s had to

  wait for her husband for four years and then commence the waiting period of

  a widow. (Cf. al-Marghīnānī 1937: 903–904; al-Sarakhsī 1972: 36–37.)

  58. al-Shāfi‘ī

  2001: 609; Ibn Qudāma 1986–90: 11: 245–46. Also, for the opinion

  of Ibn anbal on this problem, see Spectorsky 1993: 113–14.

  59. Zayla‘ī 1996: 717–18.

  60. Ahmed

  al-Mostari, al-Fatāwā al-Amadiyya al-Mūstāriyya 

      2 

  61. The

  stipulation of the amount of mahr was one of the main conditions for the

  legality of a marriage contract. (See Schacht 1964: 163–64.)

  62. Ahmed

  al-Mostari, al-Fatāwā al-Amadiyya al-Mūstāriyya 

      2 

  63. T

  ucker 1998: 84.

  64. Ahmed

  al-Mostari, al-Fatāwā al-Amadiyya al-Mūstāriyya, Gazi Husrev Beg

  Library, Sarajevo, MS 2226: 13b, margin.

  5 

               

           

              anbul to

  take up their cases to the highest legal institution in the Empire, the Imperial

  Council. Most of the cases that Bosnian women brought to the attention of

  the Imperial council were concerned with property. See   

    155         

          1

  254

  Zečević, Missing Husbands, Waiting Wives

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  LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

  Olga Augustinos is currently at work on a study of the representation of Greek

  women in philhellenic literature during the Greek revolution. She holds a Ph.D. from

  Indiana University, and has been a member of the Foreign Languages Department

  at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of French Odysseys: Greece

  in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era, which was

  awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, and has contributed chapters to

  works on the interactions between Hellenism and philhellenism.

  Patricia Fann Bouteneff is corporate archivist and editor at Citigroup. She

  received her D.Phil. from the sub-faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek at

  Oxford University, and was visiting scholar in the Department of Folklore at the

  University of Pennsyl
vania. Her principle research interests are Pontic Greek

  folklore, seventeenth-century European cabinets of curiosity, and the history of

  financial services. Her publications include Exiles on Stage: The Modern Pontic

  Theater of Greece and “Greek Folktales from Imera, Pontos,” as well as articles

  on the Pontic Greek theater in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of

  Refugee Studies, and Modern Greek Studies Yearbook.

  Amila Buturović is Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies

  and the Noor Fellow in Islamic Studies at York University (Toronto), where she

  teaches courses in Islamic literatures, the Qur’an and its interpretations, identities

  and cultures in the Balkans, and world religions. Her research interests focus on

  the intersections of religion and literature, especially in the context of Islamic

  cultures in the Balkans, and on Islamic intellectual history. She is also interested in

  the theories and practice of translation. Her publications include articles and essays

  on these subjects and a monograph entitled Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombstones,

  Landscape and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar. She is currently

  working on an anthology of Balkan short stories in English translation.

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  Kerima Filan is Professor of modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and Linguistics

  in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Sarajevo. She holds a

  M.A. from the University of Belgrade in comparative Turkish and Serbo-Croatian

  linguistics, and a Ph.D. from Ankara University in Ottoman Turkish linguistics.

  She has also served as Visiting Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of

  Zagreb and of Turkish language and literature at the University of Tuzla. Her main

  areas of research include Ottoman Turkish in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century

  Bosnia, linguistic loans between Bosnian and Turkish, and the cultural history of

  Bosnia. Her recent publications include a series of articles on the language of Mula

  Mustafa Bašeskija’s chronicle in Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju and the award-

  winning translation into Bosnian of Ferit Edgü’s A Season in Hakkâri.