- In “Religion Inspired The Nation-State, But Politics Made The Difference” (Eurasia Review, April 14, 2023), James M. Dorsey (Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies) reviews new scholarship that traces the origins of the modern nation state to earlier periods during the Middle Age by arguing that religion had a major role in occasioning the emergence of the nation state.
- In “Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium: Make War Sharp Again?” (Lieber Institute, April 12, 2023), Samuel White (University of New England) argues that “Islamic law makes it abundantly clear that all fighting on the battlefield must be directed solely against enemy combatants.”
- In “Civilians Adapt To Survive As Insurgents Fight For Influence In Africa’s Central Sahel” (HumAngle, April 12, 2023), Aliyu Dahiru (HumAngle) explains that in the Central Sahel Region in Africa, including Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, insurgent groups and locals are negotiating “social contracts” on how to structure their coexistence, which sometimes relate to the way in which Islamic law is applied.
- In “Non-Fiction: Justice and Gender in Islam” (Dawn, April 16, 2023), Umer Khan reviews Ziba Mir Hosseini‘s Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam (Oneworld Academic, 2022).