Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Posted on by
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Beyond the Secular Binary: Bargaining with God in Modern Constitutions” (International Society of Public Law Blog), Ali Shirvani (Northwest University) observes that “few questions have haunted modern constitutional theory as persistently as the relationship between divine authority and popular sovereignty. While this tension is a global phenomenon present in various religious traditions, it has… CONTINUE READING

::Roundtable:: Modern Forensic Technology and the Evolution of Islamic Criminal Law in Saudi Arabia

Posted on by
Dominik Krell Headshot

By Dominik Krell 1. Introduction It might be difficult for us to imagine how criminal offenses could be prosecuted without the technical possibilities we take for granted today. DNA and … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Modern Forensic Technology and the Evolution of Islamic Criminal Law in Saudi Arabia

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

Posted on by
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in strikes carried out by the United States and Israel…a development that is set to shake the foundations of clerical rule in the Islamic Republic.” “The executive and the legislative arms of the Nigerian government have been urged to take concrete steps to end the ambiguity created by… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Posted on by
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: “John Tolan’s Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present (Princeton University Press) offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Though it lacks in-depth exploration of some claims and underplays Sufi contributions to the religion’s development, Haider Ali [Jamia Millia Islamia] finds it an engaging and… CONTINUE READING

::Roundtable:: Material Proof: Some Notes on Legal Documents in Morocco as Physical Objects

Posted on by
Headshot of Léon Buskens

By Léon Buskens[1] Changes in the physical appearance of legal documents from twentieth-century Morocco offer important clues to reconstruct a “biography” of their social life.[2] Their appearance in the souvenir … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Material Proof: Some Notes on Legal Documents in Morocco as Physical Objects

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

Posted on by
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “Saudi youth couldn’t date openly a decade ago. Now Tinder Is booming.” A “transformation has been taking hold in [Southeast Asia]’s two big Muslim-majority countries, Malaysia and Indonesia. Islam is asserting itself not through violence but peacefully through politics, laws, consumer culture and social pressure.” “Islamic legal traditions and the modern framework of international humanitarian… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Posted on by
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In Slavery and the Shaping of the Muslim Family (De Gruyter), Cristina de la Puente (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo), Karen Moukheiber (University of Balamond) and Serena Tolino (University of Bern) delve “into the wide-ranging and complex subject of slavery within the familial sphere of Islamic societies. For too long, secondary literature has… CONTINUE READING

::Roundtable:: Kashf Ṭibbī: Forensic Expertise as Probative Knowledge in Ḥajr Decisions of 20th-Century Egypt

Posted on by
Aya Bejermi headshot

By Aya Bejermi In most Muslim-majority countries, Islamic normativity underwent a process of “positivization” that reshaped both the content of norms and the modes of their production.[1] In Egypt, two … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Kashf Ṭibbī: Forensic Expertise as Probative Knowledge in Ḥajr Decisions of 20th-Century Egypt

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

Posted on by
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Bangladesh, “Jamaat-e-Islami, banned until August 2024, not only pulled off its highest seat tally and vote share yet, but also surpassed Jamaat offshoots in the Indian Subcontinent.” In the same election, “only six of the 30 candidates put up by the National Citizen Party, which was formed by student leaders last year, won seats….Students… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Posted on by
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In an episode of Unlocking Academia, “host Raja Aderdor speaks with Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Associate Professor at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics and Director of the Master’s program in Applied Islamic Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Together, they explore Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics (Brill, 2024), a groundbreaking edited volume that… CONTINUE READING