- In “Persuading the Taliban to Guarantee Education for Afghan Girls and Women” (Jurist, March 30, 2023), L. Ali Khan (Washburn University School of Law) argues that “[t]he Taliban must know that under Islamic law, no government has any lawful right to govern a Muslim nation by proactively keeping Muslim women illiterate.”
- Andrew F. March (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) reviews Samy A. Ayoub‘s Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence.
- In “Libel Law in Malaysia: An Overview” (e-note, 2023), Hasbollah Bin Mat Saad (UCSI University, Malaysia) explores the origins and current state of Malaysian libel law, with a reference to Islamic legal principles.
- In “Islamic Perspectives on Elective Ovarian Tissue Freezing by Single Women for Non-medical or Social Reasons” (Asian Bioethics Review, January 3, 2023), Alexis Heng Boon Chin (Singapore Fertility and IVF Consultancy Pvt Ltd., Singapore) and others conclude that “upon critical analysis based on Qawā’id Fiqhiyyah (Islamic Legal Maxims), Maqāṣid-al-Shariah (Higher Objectives of Islamic Law), and Maslaḥah-Mafsadah (benefits versus harmful effects on society), elective ovarian tissue freezing by healthy single women for social reasons would likely be a highly contentious and controversial issue within Muslim communities that may conflict with conservative social-religious norms.”