Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Intellectual Practice and Manuscript Culture in Early Islamic North Africa” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā), Clément Salah (University of Oxford ) “examines the figure of Abū al-ʿArab al-Qayrawānī (d. 333/945) as a scribe-scholar in early Islamic North Africa, situating his manuscripts within the broader history of intellectual and material practices in Ifrīqiya.” The article argues that “the… CONTINUE READING

Expanding Muslim Women’s Right to Divorce: Judicial Khulʿ in Saudi Arabia’s Personal Status Law and Muslim Personal Law in South Asia

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Editor’s Note: In the previous three essays of this series, Dominik Krell explored codification, muftis, and legal change in contemporary Saudi Arabia. In this final essay, Muhammad Zubair Abbasi takes … Continue reading Expanding Muslim Women’s Right to Divorce: Judicial Khulʿ in Saudi Arabia’s Personal Status Law and Muslim Personal Law in South Asia

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “Stakeholders are promoting Islamic microfinance as a solution to financial exclusion in the Philippines, following a capacity-building workshop at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology.” “Morocco’s Justice Minister, Abdellatif Ouahbi, has sparked controversy after saying that a woman’s testimony should carry the same legal weight as that of a man under Moroccan law.” In Nigeria,… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Dominik Krell (University of Oxford) shows that “that while the debate on the family waqf in other parts of the Arab world was dominated by the… CONTINUE READING

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “While Islamic law recognizes that war may sometimes become necessary, particularly in self-defense, it places strict limits on how war may be conducted.” Halal tourism “provides services and facilities in accordance with Islamic law so Muslim travelers can observe their faith without compromising their travel experience.” In Indonesia, the “Ministry of Hajj and Umrah and… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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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