Islamic Law Blog

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Rethinking marriage—and divorce—in Muslim Indonesia” (University of Colorado Boulder Blog) “CU Boulder sociologist Rachel Rinaldo’s research uncovers how Indonesian women are re-shaping marriage and its end within Islamic law, with implications far beyond Southeast Asia.” In “Inhabiting the Threshold (Dihlīz): The Madrasa Between Inheritance and Interrogation” (Hashiya), Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame) asks… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In a recent episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, Shehnaz Haqqani (Mercer University) and Edith Szanto (University of Alabama) “explore specific Muharram practices, including self-flagellation, the wedding of Qasim, and other ritualized forms of mourning, as well as gendered dynamics in who participates and why. [They] discuss what these practices looked like on the… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press), Omar Youssef Cheta (Syracuse University) observes that “when Egypt’s markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting commercial sphere reflected… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press), Marielle Risse (Dhofar University) “examines how middle-class Muslim men and women in Dhofar, Oman, make and negotiate marital choices, tracing every stage of marriage through their own personal accounts.” In “Echoes of Empire: Persian Kingship in the Medieval Islamic World” (The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast),… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Three lives, one vision: how Dunant, Demidoff and Abdelkader shaped modern humanitarianism” (ICRC Blog) International Committee of the Red Cross experts Anastasia Kushleyko, Cédric Cotter, and Ahmed Al-Dawoody “revisit the contributions of Swiss businessman Henry Dunant, Russian philanthropist Anatole Demidoff, and Algerian scholar and leader Emir Abdelkader. Through their efforts to protect prisoners of war,… CONTINUE READING