Islamic Law in the News

  • While attention has been paid to Iran‘s morality police due to the recent protests there, scholars have also written about how the institution of the morality police manifests itself in jurisdictions other than Iran.
  • “In a two-one majority ruling today, the Court of Appeal [of Malaysia] reversed a High Court’s previous declaration that a 37-year-old Selangor-born woman is ‘not a person professing the religion of Islam.'”
  • “Expressing concerns about the current developments in Afghanistan, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on the Taliban to reconsider the decision to ban women from working for NGOs.” In the same meeting, “[r]eligious scholars said the caretaker government should consider the consultation of Muslim nations.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.”
  • Saudi Arabia‘s Minister of Human Resources and Social Development stated the country’s intention to eliminate discrimination in the labor force, adding “that the state protects human rights in accordance with the Islamic law, and facilitates areas of work for everyone who is capable of doing it.”

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