Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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6 years ago

Nurfadzilah Yahaya, SHARIAsource editor and scholar of Islamic legal history, discusses the history of Malay people in this podcast episode titled “Learning Malay History” (The More Better Podcast (2020)).
In “Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: the Iranian Discourse” (Iranian Review for UN Studies 2, no.1 (2019)), Pouria Askary and Amirsaed Vakil explore the ways Iran has referred to different interpretations of some international norms of human rights, relying on the notion of cultural diversity.
Saadiya Suleman analyzes India’s Muslim Women Act of 2019 and outlines what she calls misconceptions by mainstream media outlets in the article “Mainstreaming Misconceptions- Demonizing Muslim Personal Law: A Comment on the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act 2019” (Delhi Journal of Contemporary Law 2, (2020)).
The International Society for Islamic Legal Studies announces their relaunch of a new webpage.
In “Professor Mohammad Fadel on Muslims, Islam, and Bostock”, Mohammad Fadel, senior editor at SHARIAsource, explores Muslim perspectives on religious freedom pertaining to the Supreme Court’s recent decision on equal protection in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020).