Islamic Law Scholarship Roundup

  • Khairudin Aljunied (Georgetown University) reviews Mahmood Kooria‘s Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
  • In “The Role Of Islamic Banks In Improving The Indonesian Economy” (International Journal of Education, Vocational and Social Science 3, no. 1 (2024)) Tiffani Tiffani (UIN Imam Bonjol Padang, Indonesia) and others identify principles of Islamic law that banks in Indonesia implement that help to boost the country’s economy, including “the prohibition of usury, profit sharing (Mudharabah and Musyarakah), prohibition of risky or illegal transactions, transparency and openness, fairness and reasonableness, finally community and common interests.”
  • In “Islamic International Law during the Cold War” (in International Law during the Cold War, 1945-1990, eds. Matthew, Craven, Sundhya Pahuja and Gerry Simpson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)), Vanja Hamzić (SOAS) “seeks to provide a broad introduction to the problematics of an Islamic international law and its relationship with international law during the Cold War, paying attention to both juridical and political developments.”

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