This report assesses the attempts of a major oil company, East Cameron, to operate a large oil and gas company with respect to Islamic finance principles (so-called sharīʿa compliance). The bankruptcy proceeding that follows hints … Continue reading REPORT:: East Cameron Gas Sukuk: The Dawn of a New Frontier
Fellowships at the HLS Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource Policy Fellow Applications Now Open, 2017-2018
The SHARIAsource Research Fellowship Program provides opportunities for post-doctoral and faculty-level scholars to conduct research on policy-related aspects of Islamic law, which we interpret broadly, during the 2017-2018 academic year. … Continue reading Fellowships at the HLS Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource Policy Fellow Applications Now Open, 2017-2018
IN SUMMARY:: Policy Roundtable: Understanding Sharīʿa: Implications for Policy and Conflict Resolution
Policy Roundtable :: Understanding Sharia: Implications for Policy and Conflict Resolution | Tues, Dec 13 | 12.00 noon-1.45p. Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource and the … Continue reading IN SUMMARY:: Policy Roundtable: Understanding Sharīʿa: Implications for Policy and Conflict Resolution
Commentary :: The Dissolution of Sharīʿa in the 1965 Moroccan Court Unification Law
During a time when there are global questions about stable Muslim-majority states that have combined Islamic law with state law, SHARIAsource editor Ari Schriber convincingly demonstrates that Morocco's 1965 Court … Continue reading Commentary :: The Dissolution of Sharīʿa in the 1965 Moroccan Court Unification Law
Summary of Khizr Khan’s “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law”
Before Khizr Khan graduated with an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1986, he published an article in the Houston Journal of International Law. Entitled “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law,” … Continue reading Summary of Khizr Khan’s “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law”
The Long Shadow of England’s Privy Council Cast on the Islamic Law of Trusts in British India
South Asia editor Zubair Abbasi surveys the influence of England’s Privy Council – also known as the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – on awqāf (Islamic endowments, or trusts). As the highest court of appeal in the British … Continue reading The Long Shadow of England’s Privy Council Cast on the Islamic Law of Trusts in British India
CASE: Abul Fata Mahomed Ishak v Russomoy Dhur Chowdury (1894)
This case exemplifies the complex influence of the British Privy Council on Islamic law (called “Muhammadan law”) in India during colonial rule. While the British rulers instituted their legal system … Continue reading CASE: Abul Fata Mahomed Ishak v Russomoy Dhur Chowdury (1894)
REVIEW:: Classical Islamic Law and Modern Bankruptcy (A Review of Abed Awad, “Classical Islamic Law and Modern Bankruptcy” (2010))
In their paper Classical Islamic Law and Modern Bankruptcy (2010), U.S. editor Abed Awad and his co-author Robert E. Michael compares bankruptcy in classical Islamic law to American bankruptcy pre and post … Continue reading REVIEW:: Classical Islamic Law and Modern Bankruptcy (A Review of Abed Awad, “Classical Islamic Law and Modern Bankruptcy” (2010))
IN SUMMARY :: MESA Panel on Islamic Law as Early International Law
At the MESA Conference on November 20, SHARIAsource Editor Will Smiley served as discussant for a thematic conversation on "International Law, Sovereignty and Subjecthood in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Building … Continue reading IN SUMMARY :: MESA Panel on Islamic Law as Early International Law
Is Sharīʿa Incompatible with the Modern Administrative State?
Anver Emon's (Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and SHARIAsource senior scholar) new paper Codification and Islamic Law: The Ideology Behind a Tragic Narrative in … Continue reading Is Sharīʿa Incompatible with the Modern Administrative State?