Islamic Law Scholarship Roundup

  • In “Religious Policy of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars (1260–1277 AC)” (Religions 14, no. 11 (2023)), Hatim Muhammad Mahamid (Academic College for Teacher Education, The College of Sakhnin, Sakhnin 3081000, Israel) “focuses on the religious policy of the Mamluk Sultan Rukn al-Din Baybars (d. 1277), and its application throughout his rule in Egypt and Syria (Bilād al-Shām).”
  • In “Revisiting Lists in Early Islamic Historiography” (in Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World, eds. Teresa Bernheimer & Ronny Vollandt, Cambridge University Press, 2023), Teresa Bernheimer (LMU, Munich)  “re-examines lists in early Islamic historiographical works as textual practice, that is, as a form of textual communication that is integral to scholarly writing and the creation of a historical narrative.”
  • In “The economic aspect of the Mamluk princes” (Diyala Journal of Human Research 3, no. 96 (2023)), M.D. Sahira Awad Abdul Ali and Amir Saad Abdul Razzaq argue that “feudalism, which is part of the economic aspect, was common at the time, in addition to agriculture, industry, and trade,” and that “there was a discrepancy between the Mamluk princes and jurists.”
  • In “Unveiling Legal and Religious Divergence: Abandoned Husband Divorce in Indonesian and Syrian Contexts” (Jurnal Syariah dan Hukum 21, no. 2 (2023)), Dewi Rahmawati (UIN K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan Jalan Kusuma Bangsa No. 09 Pekalongan Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) and others “analyze and contrast the fiqh provisions and legal regulations pertaining to a wife’s right to seek divorce in Indonesia and Syria, specifically in cases where the husband is absent.”

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