Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Real estate and business fixed assets in the early Islamic economy from a Zakah perspective” (International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, March 13, 2024), Zaid Al-Aifari, Mehmet Bulut and Monzer Kahf (Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University) “confirm the[ir] hypothesis that real estate for investment purposes and business fixed assets were quasi-non-existent during the lifetime of… CONTINUE READING

Legal language in al-Qaʿnabī’s recension of the Muwaṭṭaʾ

By Raza Baqai, Zainab Hermes and Ahmed El Shamsy Previous studies of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ have relied primarily on the recension of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī (d. 234/848) to understand Mālik’s … Continue reading Legal language in al-Qaʿnabī’s recension of the Muwaṭṭaʾ

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Malaysia‘s Minister of Religious Affairs, Datuk Mohd Na’im Mokhtar, recently stated that the teachings of the Ahmadi religion “go against . . . Islamic law.” Describing America‘s halal food market, one commentator noted that “[i]t’s challenging to find halal meat in the U.S. Halal meat certification isn’t standardized yet, with numerous organizations enforcing their own… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Dynamics of Islamic Law in Indonesia During the Reformation Period” (Marga: Journal of Innovation and Creativity 1, no. 1 (2024)), Wildan Habib Azhari (Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia) and others explore the development of Islamic law in Indonesia’s history, with a focus on “opportunities and challenges for Islamic law amidst the plurality… CONTINUE READING

Al-Qaʿnabī’s recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ: Paths and vectors of transmission

By Kainat Jalaluddin, Yousef Aly Wahb, Hamza Baig and Ahmed El Shamsy Shuhda In the year 490/1096, an eight-year-old girl named Shuhda accompanied her father, the renowned ḥadīth expert Abū … Continue reading Al-Qaʿnabī’s recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ: Paths and vectors of transmission

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “The head of Sharia police in northern Nigeria‘s Kano state announced his resignation on Friday after the governor accused his force of abusive raids and crackdowns on social media influencers.” “Afghanistan‘s ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country’s southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Legitimating Sultanic Rule in Arabic, Turkish and Persian—Late Mamluk Rulers as Authors of Religious Poetry” (in Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World, eds., Maribel Fierro et al. (Brill, 2024)), Christian Mauder (Free University of Berlin) “outlines the multilingual poetic production of . . . Mamluk Sultans, explores the religious and political significance of… CONTINUE READING

Al-Qaʿnabī’s recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ: The single surviving copy

By Hamza Baig, Adam DeSchriver, Ammar Farra and Ahmed El Shamsy The Muwaṭṭaʾ of Mālik b. Anas (93–179/711–95) is one of the earliest surviving works of Islamic law, containing ḥadīth … Continue reading Al-Qaʿnabī’s recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ: The single surviving copy

Welcome to our March Guest Blogger: Ahmed El Shamsy & Seminar Participants

Ahmed El Shamsy

The essays for this month arise from a seminar on Arabic philology taught by Professor Ahmed El Shamsy at the University of Chicago. Each essay is jointly authored by Professor … Continue reading Welcome to our March Guest Blogger: Ahmed El Shamsy & Seminar Participants