By Alicia Daniel Citation: Anver Emon, Religious Minorities and Islamic Law: Accommodation and the Limits of Tolerance, in Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground? 323–43 … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Anver Emon on What We can Learn from Debates about Religious Minorities in Islamic Law
The Transformation of Anglo-Muhammadan Law: Muslims on British Benches
On April 25th, SHARIAsource Fellow, Dr. Sohaira Siddiqui, at the Islamic Legal Studies Program used the 1881 case of Fidayat ul-Nissa and others v. Muhammad Ismail Khan (India) to frame her discussion of … Continue reading The Transformation of Anglo-Muhammadan Law: Muslims on British Benches
Job Opening: Associate Director Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies & Mediterranean Studies Forum Stanford Global Studies Division
The Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Mediterranean Studies Forum (both part of the Stanford Global Studies Division) are academic hubs that foster academic events, research, … Continue reading Job Opening: Associate Director Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies & Mediterranean Studies Forum Stanford Global Studies Division
Trailblazer Lecture Series: A Discussion with Raheemah Abdulaleem ’01
Review :: Powers on the Role of Endowments, waqf, in Inheritance
Centuries before the trust was developed in English common law, Islamic law developed the waqf, or endowment. The waqf allowed a property owner to separate the title to a property from the … Continue reading Review :: Powers on the Role of Endowments, waqf, in Inheritance
Review :: Clark Lombardi on Sharīʿa as a Source of Legislation
The constitutions of many Muslim-majority countries contain clauses that declare sharīʿa a source of legislation. These “sharīʿaclauses” may name sharīʿa as “a chief source,” “the chief source,” or “the only source,” among others, of … Continue reading Review :: Clark Lombardi on Sharīʿa as a Source of Legislation
Review :: Fadel on the Function of the “Interest Ban” in Islamic Finance
Islamic finance creates financial products specifically aimed at Muslims that are sharīʿa compliant. Many scholars have condemned Islamic finance for condemning ribā (interest) on the one hand, particularly where usurious, but then many others … Continue reading Review :: Fadel on the Function of the “Interest Ban” in Islamic Finance
Islamic Law Lexicon :: Ijtihād: the direct interpretation of scripture
This entry provides a definition and analysis of the term ijtihād, drawing on works by SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Sherman A. Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion … Continue reading Islamic Law Lexicon :: Ijtihād: the direct interpretation of scripture
Islamic Law Lexicon :: Ḥadīth
Ḥadīth = “the corpus of traditions from the Prophet”; reports of words and sayings attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad (for Sunnīs) as well as to a series of Imams who succeeded … Continue reading Islamic Law Lexicon :: Ḥadīth
Shah Waliullah Dehlavi and His Neglected Views on Islamic Law
Islamic Legal Studies Program SHARIAsource / Fulbright Fellow Dr. Mubasher Hussain introduced the work of Shah Waliullah Dehlavi to the Harvard community on 17 April 2017. Hussain discussed Shah … Continue reading Shah Waliullah Dehlavi and His Neglected Views on Islamic Law