Experiments in Mapping Islamic Legal Canons: Reports from the SHARIAsource Lab (Fall 2024)

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By SHARIAsource Lab* The SHARIAsource Courts & Canons (CnC) Annotation Suite leverages data science tools to explore questions in Islamic law and society historically through mapping the controversies and values … Continue reading Experiments in Mapping Islamic Legal Canons: Reports from the SHARIAsource Lab (Fall 2024)

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “The Taliban’s continued imposition of strict interpretations of Islamic law and Afghan culture has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on women and girls, the UN envoy for the country warned [recently].” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.” … CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Fatwās on Jihād from Premodern Morocco” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 31 (2024)), Jocelyn Hendrickson (University of Alberta) “provides an Arabic critical edition of one section of an important but unpublished source for the history of late fifteenth-century Morocco: al-Jawāhir al-mukhtāra fī-mā waqaftu ʿalayhi min al-nawāzil bi-Jibāl Ghumāra (Selected jewels: Legal cases I encountered in the Ghumāra Mountains)… CONTINUE READING

Is Independent Legal Reasoning Incompatible with Following Earlier Jurists? Rethinking the Claim of Jurists’ Disloyalty to Taqlīd

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By Muhammad al-Marakeby This essay aims to explore the concepts of taqlīd (following the legal opinions of earlier jurists) and ijtihād (independent legal reasoning) during the Ottoman period. Although numerous … Continue reading Is Independent Legal Reasoning Incompatible with Following Earlier Jurists? Rethinking the Claim of Jurists’ Disloyalty to Taqlīd

Experiments in Annotating Islamic Legal Canons

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By SHARIAsource Lab* The SHARIAsource Courts & Canons (CnC) Annotation Suite leverages data science tools to explore questions in Islamic law and society historically through mapping the controversies and values … Continue reading Experiments in Annotating Islamic Legal Canons

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “Iran has carried out an unprecedented number of amputations for theft over the past three years, a punishment based on [the state’s strict interpretation of] Islamic law that breaks international human rights laws.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup:… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Populist Secularism” (Minnesota Journal of International Law 33 (2024)), Seval Yildirim (University of Buffalo, SUNY), “[u]sing Turkey as a case study,” argues that “religion and secularism are best viewed as parts of a symbiotic relationship, informing each other’s identity, and defining characteristics through an ongoing process of negotiation.” In “Why Bitcoin is the Most… CONTINUE READING

Men Can Be Excluded, Women Cannot: Family Endowments and the Preferential Treatment of Women in Khalīl’s Mukhtaṣar

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By Muhammad al-Marakeby The use and validity of family endowments (waqf ahlī) have been a contentious issue since the nineteenth century. Many argue that family endowment was often used as … Continue reading Men Can Be Excluded, Women Cannot: Family Endowments and the Preferential Treatment of Women in Khalīl’s Mukhtaṣar

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “For the past years of its existence, the NYSC [National Youth Service Corps, Nigeria] scheme has been mandating prospective female corps members who are married to change their father’s name (or family name) to that of their husband’s. This has not gone down well with Muslims among the female prospective corps members. This is because, in… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “‘Nowhere but Everywhere’: The Principle of Legality and the Complexities of Judicial Discretion in Iran” (Iranian Studies, November 27, 2024), Bahman Khodadadi (Harvard Law School) argues that “the Iranian theocratic system has exempted religious sins from th[e] principle [of legality of crime and punishment] by blurring the distinction between crime and sin and criminalizing… CONTINUE READING