- In “Some Critical Reflections on al-Jāḥiẓ’s Notions of Ṭabʿ and Ṭibāʿ (Innate Dispositions)” (The Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 6, no. 2 (2021)) Zaid Alamiri critically reflects on al-Jāḥiẓ’s (d. 868) understanding of innate disposition and its relation to free will.
- In “Law and Vision A Reading of Islamic Culture and the Socio-Spatial Structure of Traditional Settlements” (The Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 6, no. 2 (2021)) Majdi Faleh (University of Western Australia) sheds light on rules of vision (naẓar) and building (bunyān) in Islamic law by reference to two medieval manuscripts: “Ibn al-Qaṭṭān al-Fāsī’s book Iḥkām an-naẓar fī aḥkām an-naẓar bi-hāssat al-baṣar (Scrutinising the Rulings Concerning Seeing with the Sense of Vision) and Ibn al-Rāmi’s Kitab al-I’lan Bi-Aḥkām al-Bunyān (The Book of Pronouncing Judgments in [Matters of] Building).”