- In “The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt” (Law and History Review (2022)), Adam Mestyan (Duke University) and Rezk Nori (Center for Contemporary History of Egypt) “explore the ‘probate regime,’ an administrative field of government activity of legally transferring, taxing, and administering bequests” and how it manifested itself in 19th century Egypt.
- In “Controls Of the Marriage Contract in The Personal Status Law in Sharia” (resmilitaris 13, no. 1 (2023)), Anoud Madloul Sobhan Saeed (AlKut University College, Iraq) and others describe the Iraqi legislature’s approach to devising rules of personal status law based on Islamic law.
- In “Jurisprudential and legal analysis of Hawala Bari from the perspective of Islamic jurisprudence” (Motaleat-e Taghribi Mazaheb-e Eslami), Babak Salimi (Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran) “aims to use the theories and arguments of jurists to solve conflicts and find the answer to the question whether Hawala Bari is correct or not.”
- Commenting on the recent controversy following the dismissal of a professor at Hamline University for showing a visual depiction of the Prophet, Omid Safi (Duke University) said: “The fact of the matter is that these kinds of images have been an important part of the Islamic tradition.”