Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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Maryam Saeed discusses the constraints in Islamic insurance (takāful) and its impact on the performance of takāful operators in “Challenges of Islamic Insurance (Takaful) Globally,” COMSATS Journal of Islamic Finance, 2019. (This article was also featured in this week’s issue of SSRN’s Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal).
In “Islamic Financial Intermediation of Indonesian Economic Growth in 2003: Q1-2015: Q4,” published in the International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, Raditya Sukmana, Khoirul Zadid Taqwa, and Tika Widiastuti assess the effects of Islamic financial performance in the intermediation function. The authors do so by examining representative Islamic banking instruments and the Islamic capital market (JII) on Indonesia’s economic growth from 2003 to 2015. (This article was also featured in this week’s issue of SSRN’s Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal).
Galym Zhussipbek and Zhanar Nagayeva posit that there is epistemological crisis of conservative Islamic scholarship in “Epistemological Reform and Embracement of Human Rights. What Can be Inferred from Islamic Rationalistic Maturidite Theology?,” Open Theology. The authors argue that this epistemological crisis is exemplified by an insufficient level of human rights protections under sharīʿa. (This article was also featured in this week’s issue of SSRN’s Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal).
In “Underwriting the Empire: Nizamiye Courts, Tax Farming and the Public Debt Administration in Ottoman Syria,”Islamic Law and Society, Nora Barakat investigates the role of the Ottoman Nizamiye Court of First Instance in conflicts over capital between public revenue agencies and tax farmers in the Syrian district of Homs at the turn of the twentieth century.
Justin Jones examines how female qāẓīs in India adjudicate family conflicts in “‘Where Only Women May Judge’: Developing Gender-Just Islamic Laws in India’s All-Female ‘Sharī‘ah Courts,” Islamic Law and Society.
In “Filling Gaps in Legislation: The Use of Fiqh by Contemporary Courts in Morocco, Egypt, and Indonesia,” Islamic Law and Society, Baudouin Dupret, Adil Bouhya, Monika Lindbekk and Ayang Utriza Yakin examine cases that illustrate how judges seek a solution in the body of fiqh when asked to authenticate a marriage.

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