Jāmi‘ al-Riyāsatayn[1] Akşehirī Hasan Fahmi Efendi was born in 1796 in Ilgın, a district in Konya. He went to Konya to study at the important madrasas of the region and … Continue reading Jāmi‘ al-Riyāsatayn Shaykh al-Islām Hasan Fahmi Efendi
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Eva Brems offers an analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights at the intersection of women’s rights and religious freedom in "Hidden Under Headscarves? Women … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Halevi on “Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935”
Leor Halevi (Vanderbilt University) recently published Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935 (Columbia University Press, 2019). "A description from the press: In … Continue reading Halevi on “Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935”
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Monika Zalnieriute and Catherine Weiss analyze the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s (HRC) consideration of legal prohibitions on Islamic face-coverings in Yaker v. France and Hebbadj v. France in "Reconceptualizing … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
A Literary Bureaucrat Scholar and Shaykh al-Islām: Ahmad Ārif Hikmet Bey Efendi
Studies on the Ottoman Shaykh al-Islāms are largely focused on a few names, their fatwās, and their relations with the state. It is a fact that the fatwā constituted a … Continue reading A Literary Bureaucrat Scholar and Shaykh al-Islām: Ahmad Ārif Hikmet Bey Efendi
Shamim Ara and the “Judicialization” of Divorce
Case Summary Shamim Ara v. State of U.P. & Anr. is a family law case decided by the Supreme Court of India in 2002. In 1979, petitioner Shamim Ara filed … Continue reading Shamim Ara and the “Judicialization” of Divorce
Ottoman Shaykh al-Islāms of the Nineteenth Century and their Intellectual Biographies
Foundational studies on Islamic legal history in the modern era have largely ignored Ottoman legal thought and experience. This approach, which dominated the historiography of Islamic law written in the … Continue reading Ottoman Shaykh al-Islāms of the Nineteenth Century and their Intellectual Biographies
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Radhika Kanchana addresses citizenship access to “outsiders” in Muslim-majority states in "How do Muslim States Treat their 'Outsiders'?: Is Islamic Practice of Naturalisation Synonymous with Jus Sanguinis?", Islamic Law & … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Welcome to our January Guest Blogger: Necmettin Kizilkaya
It's a pleasure to introduce our guest blog editor for January: Necmettin Kizilkaya, Associate Professor of Islamic Law and Economics at the Faculty of Divinity, Istanbul University. He is director of the … Continue reading Welcome to our January Guest Blogger: Necmettin Kizilkaya
PIL Fellowship Applications for 2020-2021 [Now Closed]
The Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School invites applications to its 2020-2021 Fellowship Program (due Jan. 31, 2020). Research Fellowships are designed to provide an intellectual home to … Continue reading PIL Fellowship Applications for 2020-2021 [Now Closed]