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Omar Abdel-Ghaffar

Omar Abdel-Ghaffar graduated in 2025 with a J.D. from Harvard Law School and is currently a PhD candidate in History and Middle East Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on Islamic law in the fourteenth century, examining the relationship between courts and peasants. He is also interested in the relationship between law, documentary practices, and social structures.