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Serena Tolino<\/h3>

Serena\u00a0Tolino is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and a co-director of the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (SACS) at the University of Bern, where she also co-leads the Middle East and Muslim Societies (MOMuG) area. She is the PI of the project TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources<\/em>, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In the project, her research focuses on the concept of the umm al-walad<\/em>.

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\"Omar<\/div>

Omar Anchassi<\/h3>

Omar Anchassi is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern. He was previously an Early Career Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and at the KFCRIS in Riyadh. His contribution to TraSIS focuses on the historical development of the legal categories of the umm al-walad<\/em>, the muk\u0101taba<\/em> and kaf\u0101la<\/em> in non-Sunni juristic thought.

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