Islamic Law Blog

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Perpetuating Property and Kinship: Matrilineal Family Waqfs in 20th-Century Colonial Malabar, South India” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Abdulla Niruvan Chalil (Jamia Millia Islamia) “examines family waqf practices among matrilineal families in Malabar during the British colonial period by analysing waqf deeds written in Malayalam” and argues that “family… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Reconfiguring Political Islam: A Discursive Tradition Approach” (American Journal of Islam and Society), Abbas Jong (Freie Universität Berlin) “reconceptualizes Political Islam through the analytic lens of discursive tradition, restructured within the framework of social configurations. Departing from essentialist, universalist, nominalist, and reductionist readings, the study foregrounds the epistemological contingencies and internal pluralities that characterize… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran” (Constitutional Discourse), Batuhan Aydın (University of Szeged) “traces the origins of Iran’s constitutional identity crisis from the Qajar period to the present, trying to engage legal scholarship in the midst of current geopolitical developments.” In “Doctrinal change in Mālikī law: the case of judicial… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Religious Elites and the Management of Islamic Affairs in Sarawak: A Mixed Scorecard” (Fulcrum), Mohd Faizal Musa (ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute) argues that “political rather than religious authority still calls the shots in multi-religious Sarawak.” In “Ahmad al-Sharaa Is Building the State Abu Mohammed al-Golani Promised” (Lawfare), Sara Harmouch (H9 Defense) argues that the “new… CONTINUE READING