Islamic Law Scholarship Roundup

  • Systemic Islamophobia in Canada: A Research Agenda (University of Toronto Press, 2023), edited by Anver M. Emon (University of Toronto Faculty of Law), “presents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for future research and inquiry. The authors consist of both scholars and professionals who encounter in the ordinary course of their work the – sometimes banal, sometimes surprising – operation of systemic Islamophobia.”
  • In “Opportunities and Challenges of the Implementation of Islamic Law in Indonesia” (International Journal of Social Science 2, no. 5 (2023)), Samsidar Jamaluddin (Universitas Islam Negeri, Indonesia) and others argue that “the opportunity to make laws based on or inspired by Islamic law through the mechanism of representative democracy in Indonesia is still wide open.”
  • In “Islamic Law Paradigm of Effort to Children Educational Protection” (International Seminar of Islamic Studies 5 (2023)), Andi Hakim Lubis (Universitas Medan Area, Indonesia) and others assert that “the implementation of children’s right to education [is] an important pillar for efforts to increase the degree of humanity and the advancement of human civilization which in Islam is known as hifz al-‘aql (maintenance of reason).”
  • In “Files from Exile: Qazi (Judge) Marzia Babakarkhail on Women and Justice in Afghanistan” (Manara Magazine, April 27, 2023), Tugela Pepin (Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum) relays the take of the now-exiled female Afghan judge Marzia Babakarkhail on female judges and the treatment of the Afghan judiciary toward women.

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