SHARIAsource U.S. Editor Abed Awad was recently awarded the “Outstanding Scholar Award” by the New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association for his work on complex matrimonial cases and Islamic family law. … Continue reading SHARIAsource Editors and Senior Scholars’ Round Up: July 30th
SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Ahmed El Shamsy recently published an article in the Journal of the American Oriental Society on the historical development of Islamic legal theory. “Bridging the Gap: Two … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: El Shamsy on Islamic Legal History
A recent article in The Huffington Post profiled Dr. Amra Bone, the first female “sharīʿa court” judge in the UK. As a member of the Sharia Council at Birmingham Central … Continue reading In the News: Sharīʿa Courts in the UK
By Marta Wojtowicz Description: The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court ruled on the unconstitutionality of the Revolutionary Leadership Council’s decision no. 120 (1994) in a decision from March 8, 2017. [1] … Continue reading Iraqi Constitution: Supreme Court refrains from ruling on Islamic Law application
SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Wael Hallaq has written a new book: Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge. The book “reevaluates and deepens the critique of Orientalism,” and “exposes the depth … Continue reading SHARIAsource Senior Scholars’ Round Up: July 23rd
SHARIAsource Pakistan and Maldives Editor Adnan Zulfiqar recently published an article in the West Virginia Law Review about how changing views of jihād as an individual duty versus a collective … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Zulfiqar on Jihād
By Marta Wojtowicz Description: In May 2003, the most widely followed Shīʿī religious authority in Iraq, ʾAlī al-Sīstānī, issued a fatwā regarding the protection of Iraqi antiquities, in the wake of … Continue reading ʾAlī al-Sīstānī: Protecting Antiquities through Islamic Law
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Prof. Faisal Chaudhry recently wrote an article in Law and History Review discussing legal modernization in nineteenth-century India: “Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century Domestication of the Sharīʿa: Marriage and Family in the … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Chaudhry on Islamic Legal History
Last week’s New York Times article on “The Case of the Purloined Poultry: How ISIS Prosecuted Petty Crime” describes the implementation of Islamic criminal law in Iraq under ISIS. According to Mara Revkin of … Continue reading In the News: Revkin on ISIS’s Legal System
By Marta Wojtowicz Description: The Advice and Guidance to the Fighters on the Battlefields[1] was issued by ʾAlī al-Sistānī in February 2015 and directed to the fighters involved in the … Continue reading ʾAlī al-Sīstānī: Guiding Conduct of Pro-Government Militias in Iraq
