Islamic Law Blog

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

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “When the Internet Goes Dark: What Medieval Islamic Philosophy Reveals About Legal Personhood” (JURISTnews), AmirAli Maleki, “an international law and philosophy researcher based in Iran, argues that al-Fārābī’s medieval concept of the ‘stranger’—one who exists within a political order but is denied the capacity for ethical participation—illuminates how contemporary international law transforms human beings… CONTINUE READING

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