- “Five years ago, while [a Canadian] couple were living in Pakistan, a court granted [them] adoption rights under a Sharia law known as kafala. This practice recognizes adoptive parents in most of the world’s 49 Muslim-majority countries through guardianship, which is a largely symbolic Islamic principle that maintains the tie between adopted children and their biological parents. The federal government [of Canada] . . . maintains that because kafala does not sever legal ties between adopted children and their biological parents, as Canadian adoptions do, it is not recognized under Canadian law.”
- “The Iranian Association of Islamic Finance (IAIF) held a pre-session on the 9th Islamic Finance Conference on February 4.”
- “As the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) seeks to introduce a definition of Muslim religious schools so it can better administer them and ensure they comply with requirements, [some MPs] asked several questions about the proposal.”
- “The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) . . . claimed that the Varanasi district court decision allowing Hindu prayers in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque was taken in ‘haste.'”
- “Kaduna State [Nigeria] governor, Uba Sani . . . inaugurated Muhammed Danjuma as the new Grand Khadi of the Sharia Court of Appeal for the state.”
- “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sharply criticized what he described as ‘hostility towards Sharia,’ the religious law that is part of the Islamic tradition, equating it with hostility towards Islam.”
- “The Islamic Organisation for Medical Sciences (IOMS) held a workshop [in Kuwait] under the title ‘Employing AI in improving capabilities of doctors, scholars and preachers for public speaking and media confrontation’, with the participation of 70 scholars and preachers.”