Islamic Law at MESA 2024! (A PIL Guide)

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The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of panels from the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) 2024 Annual Meeting schedule that are related to Islamic law and … Continue reading Islamic Law at MESA 2024! (A PIL Guide)

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “The Taliban‘s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has introduced new restrictions on Afghan women, mandating that they refrain from performing Takbir—an Islamic expression of faith—and from reciting the Quran aloud, even in the presence of other women, according to Virginia-based Afghan news channel Amu TV.” For more content and context on… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Dark Deeds, Broken Bodies: Medieval Islamic Narratives of Violence against Corpses” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists 32), Taryn Marashi (Augsburg University) “addresses the narrative power of corpse violence in Greater Iraq during the mid-third/ninth and early fourth/tenth centuries, investigating the political meanings inscribed on bodies unmade by others.” In “The Controversy… CONTINUE READING

Islamic Law at ASLH 2024! (A PIL Guide)

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The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations from the American Society for Legal History's (ASLH) 2024 Annual Meeting schedule that are related to Islamic law, … Continue reading Islamic Law at ASLH 2024! (A PIL Guide)

Learning from the document: Part 2

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By Zahir Bhalloo* In this third and final essay, I provide a commentary on one of the Persian fatwā papers from the NLI Afghan Genizah collection (for the text, translation … Continue reading Learning from the document: Part 2

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting, “Amina J. Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, stated that support for the rights of Afghan women must be expanded.” “The Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on this; however, it has consistently denied allegations of violating women’s rights in the country, asserting that all women’s… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In Society of the Righteous: Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania (Indiana University Press, 2024) Kimberly T. Wortmann (Wake Forest University) argues that “[a]lthough the rule of the Omani sultanate in Tanzania came to an end following the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, the legacy of its empire still exists today, along with its distinctive religious… CONTINUE READING

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) [in Malaysia], Datuk Dr Mohd Na’im Mokhtar, has clarified that the fatwas (edicts) enacted under Mufti Bill (Federal Territories) 2024 are binding only on Muslims and limited to the jurisdiction of the states.” “Amnesty International . . . called for Iraqi lawmakers to drop proposed amendments to the… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Veiling Laws Throughout Iranian History: The Relationship to Religion, Before and During Islamic Law” (SSRN, September 20, 2024), Nicolas Garon (Southern University Law Center) questions “whether Islam is, or is not, the connection to the origin of clothing restrictions for women, and if Zoroastrian Persia still maintained religious dress laws for women, or if it… CONTINUE READING