- Zak Leonard reviews Elizabeth Lhost‘s (UCLA) Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022) in the Journal of Church & State.
- In “Abū Yaʿrub al-Marzūqī and His Critique of the maqāṣid theory” (Religions 14, no. 9 (2023)), Abdessamad Belhaj (Institute of Religion and Society, University of Public Service, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary) discusses Abū Yaʿrub al-Marzūqī’s criticism of the maqāṣid theory, finding that “[h]is primary claim is that the maqāṣid theory exhibits arbitrariness.”
- In “Understanding of Legal Reform on Sociology of Islamic Law: Its Relevance to Islamic Family Law in Indonesia” (Al-Manāhij: Jurnal Kajian Hukum Islam 17, no. 2 (2023)), Ahmad Zayyadi (UIN Profesor Kiai Haji Saifuddin Zuhri Purwokerto, Indonesia) and others “analy[ze] the understanding of legal modernization in the sociology of Islamic law in Muslim countries regarding Islamic family law in Indonesia.”