Islamic Law Scholarship Roundup

  • In “Iran Isn’t the Only Country With Morality Police” (Council on Foreign Relations (January 11, 2023)), Kali Robinson (Council on Foreign Relations) writes that it is not only Iran, but that “[m]ultiple countries have special police that enforce Islamic moral codes.”
  • In “Islamic Economics: Comparisons” (Annual Review of Islamic Finance (January 5, 2023)), Belal Ehsan Baaquie (School of Graduate Studies, International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance) argues that “Islamic economics is currently only a theoretical construct with no Muslim majority country practicing it.”
  • In “Civil liability of physicians in terms of Imami jurisprudence and Iranian law” (Political Sociology Research 5, no. 11), Javad Maboudi (Islamic Azad University, Iran) and others discuss “civil liability of government employees in Iranian jurisprudence and law.”
  • Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil (Indian Institute of Technology) reviews Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts (Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale, eds., Harvard University Press 2017), describing it as “a compendium of legal history in the early Islamic period with a focus on the concepts and practices in the judicial discourse of Islam.”
  • Ana Struillou (European University Institute, Italy) reviews Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Jocelyn Hendrickson, Harvard University Press 2021), describing the book as “engag[ing] with an understudied aspect of Christian conquests over Muslim territories in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa from the early fifteenth century onwards.”

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