Last week, US constitutional law professor and SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Asifa Quraishi-Landes wrote about the midterm elections, asking whether Muslim American voters should be guided by sharīʿa or the public … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round Up: Nov 12th
The Atlantic Council think tank recently published a report called The Islamic Tradition and the Human Rights Discourse—"a collection of thought provoking articles that aim to elevate the conversation on … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Fadel on Human Rights
In August, the SHARIAsourceBlog featured a roundtable discussion on the Akhter v. Khan case, concerning the legal status of Islamic marriages and divorces under UK law. The London School of … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Akhter v. Khan
Two weeks ago, the UN Human Rights Committee (which oversees compliance with the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) declared that France’s ban on full-face veils violates freedom … Continue reading In the News: Islamic Veils in France
By Aaron Spevack Source: Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī, Ḥāshiya al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī ʿalā Sharḥ al-ʿAlāma Ibn al- Qāsim al-Ghazzī ʿalā Matn al-Shaykh Abī Shujāʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutūb al-ʿIlmiyya, 1999. The excerpt that … Continue reading Hāshiyat al-Bajūrī
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Austria had the right to convict a woman for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The woman had argued that the Austrian … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Analysis of European Court of Human Rights Free Speech Ruling
Last month, Equal Times (a Brussels-based news site) published an article discussing the increase in paternity lawsuits and calls for DNA testing in Egypt. The Egyptian government estimates there are … Continue reading In the News: Paternity Lawsuits and DNA Testing in Egypt
Former Islamic Legal Studies Program Visiting Fellow Hauwa Ibrahim was selected as one of the 2018 Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. In addition, SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Clark … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round Up: Oct 29th
Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema and SHARIAsource South Asia Editor Zubair Abbasi have written a paper on the role of the 150-year-old Lahore High Court—which has jurisdiction over Pakistan’s most populous province … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Cheema and Abbasi on Islamic Family Law in Pakistan
The following book reviews are contributed by Ari Schreiber. *** Muhammad’s Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622-950 by Jonathan E. Brockopp (Cambridge University Press, 2017) Editor’s note: Jonathan … Continue reading Islamic Law in “Plain English”
