In her book review of Mohammed Fadel and Connell Monette’s translation of Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ,Adday Hernández (ILC-CSIS) welcomes the translation and describes it as a work that will become “one of the main reference sources” in the field of Islamic legal studies.
In his PhD dissertation thesis entitled “Beyond the Realm of Religion: The Idea of the Secular in Premodern Islam,” Dr. Rushain Abbasi (Harvard University) challenges the prevailing view among scholars and non-scholars that the secular versus religious dichotomy emerged only recently and as a result of the introduction of the concept of modern states into the Islamic world through his “excavation of the diverse and intricate ways in which the religious and secular interacted” in premodern Islam.
