- Following King Mohammed VI‘s public statement regarding legal reform, Morocco has been reported to be working on significant family law reform, with ongoing controversies on whether the new amendments would decriminalize adultery currently subject to imprisonment.
- “The Taliban administration in Afghanistan executed two men convicted of murder in a football stadium in the eastern region of the country. . . .” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
- “Reform UK leader Richard Tice has called for Sharia Law to be made illegal.”
- “The Malaysian government has set 31 December as the deadline for individual states to harmonise Sharia (Syariah, Islamic law) with the constitution to iron out the differences between Qurʾānic rules and the country’s constitutional framework.”
- “The Indian state of Assam has repealed a colonial-era law that allowed child marriage among Muslims, in a move that is being seen as contentious just months before the country’s general election.”
- “Uttarakhand [in India] has become the first state in the country to have passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the Legislature, which makes laws on marriage, divorce and inheritance the same for every individual in the state. What this means is that personal laws regarding marriage, divorce, inheritance will not matter irrespective of whether a person is a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jain or of any other religion.”
- “The Islamic Emirate spokesperson [of Afghanistan] said that the absence of a constitution does not mean there is a legal vacuum in the country.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.”
- “Pakistan has pledged to become fully sharia-compliant in its banking services by December 2027, but still has a long way to go to create a banking sector that provides the services its customers want.”
- “According to the UAE Islamic Finance Report 2023 released by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), the main Islamic financial markets are concentrated in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Southeast Asia, and South Asia. “