In “Civil Law Principles in Fiqh of Islamic Law” (Tematics Journal of Law 14, no. 12 (December 2020)), Ayub Mukhammadiev (The Military-Technical Institute of the National Guard of the Republic of Uzbekistan) provides a brief overview of some general principles of Islamic law.
In “Re-Assessing the Evidentiary Threshold for Zinā’ in Islamic Criminal Law: A De Facto Exemption Proposal” (Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, (2021) (forthcoming)), Hassan Ahmad (University of Toronto) considers the four eye witness threshold under Islamic law to be convicted for fornication, arguing that the adoption of this “internal” evidentiary standard would prevent convictions based on shaky grounds that garner international outcry from time to time.
