- In “Litigious Zeal” (Inquest, November 22, 2022), SpearIt (University of Pittsburgh) explores how Muslim prisoners in the United States “sue religiously” and argues that Muslim prisoner litigation has resulted in reforms for prisoner rights in the country.
- In “General Principles of Business Contracts in Islamic Law” (in Institutional Islamic Economics and Finance, ed. Ahsan Shafiq, 2022), Muhammad Tahir Mansoori writes that “Islamic law in the field of muamlat [sic] is generally concerned with laying down general principles and broad guidelines for business transactions without indulging in details.”
- In “Breaking the Silence: An Islamic Legal Approach to Facilitating Reporting and Testimony by Muslim Victims and Witnesses of Sexual Crimes” (Religions 13, no. 11 (2022)), Julie Lowe (independent researcher) argues that “although the jurists’ prosecution of sexual assault as a discretionary offence (taʿzīr) is compatible with reporting and testimony, their prosecution of rape as coerced illicit intercourse (zinā), usurpation (ghaṣb), or banditry (ḥirāba) silences victims and witnesses.”
- In “Homosexuality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Approaches: Study of Huzaemah Tahido Yanggo’s Thought” (Al-‘Adl 15, no. 2, 2022), Amri Amri and Athoillah Islamy engage in an in-depth discussion of a Muslim jurist’s views on same-sex intimacy from an Islamic law perspective.