- “Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that overturning restrictions against women is not a priority for the group.” The United Nations said that Taliban is divided on the issue.
- “Nine men were lashed in public in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday [January 17, 2023] as punishment for different crimes under the country’s new rulers, a Taliban-appointed official said.”
- Initially prohibiting the display of all mannequins, the Taliban has decreed that mannequins are permissible but that their heads must be covered. 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.”
- “The crackdown on anti-establishment protests in Iran has led prominent Shiite clerics in both Iran and Iraq to call on the Islamic Republic to halt the violence and listen to popular demands.”
- “An Iranian man has been jailed for more than eight years after decapitating his wife and displaying her head in public in a case that shocked the country, the judiciary said Wednesday.”
- “Iranian conservative politician and former diplomat Javad Larijani has defended stoning for adultery, saying it is a good Islamic law protecting ‘family values.'”
- “Prisoner Saman Nabi Garousi was executed […] at Karaj Central Penitentiary, in northern Iran, over drug-related offences.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
- Experts have argued that Indonesia is “a natural market for companies offering fintech products and services that comply with Islamic law.”
- “It is everyone’s religious and constitutional duty to develop and carry out a plan for converting Pakistan‘s financial system to one that is free of riba in accordance with Islamic law, experts said at a seminar.”
- “The [F]ederation’s counsel […] argued before the [S]upreme Court of [P]akistan that unless the court identifies the constitutional prohibition it cannot strike down the law.”
- “Renowned scholar Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani […] issued a Fatwa (decree) that any armed activity against the state of Pakistan was a ‘rebellion’, which was ‘haram’ and proscribed according to the Islamic law.”
- Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan) has started a Change.org petition in support of Dr. Erika López Prater who was dismissed from her position after showing a depiction of the Prophet to her students.
- “The Elders Consultative Forum of Supreme Council for Shariah, Oyo State chapter [of Nigeria] has called on the Oyo State Government to establish Shariah Court in the state.”
- “Despite […] adverse developments in the western world, the Islamic finance industry has […] weathered the storm exceptionally well. “