- In “Real estate and business fixed assets in the early Islamic economy from a Zakah perspective” (International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, March 13, 2024),
Zaid Al-Aifari, Mehmet Bulut and Monzer Kahf (Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University) “confirm the[ir] hypothesis that real estate for investment purposes and business fixed assets were quasi-non-existent during the lifetime of the Prophet (sas) and, therefore, irrelevant from a Zakah perspective.” - “Sharia and the Modern State: How the British Empire—and its Muslim Subjects—Transformed Islamic Law” (Experts Talk Islam Podcast, February 29, 2024), examines how Sharia changed during the two centuries when the British Empire ruled over large parts of the Muslim world. Surveying two transformational centuries—from around 1750 to around 1950—[it described] what happened to Sharia as British rule fanned out from India (including what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh) to Malaya (including what is today Malaysia and Singapore) then Egypt.”
- In “Death penalty in Indonesia: between criminal law and Islamic law perspectives” (Legality: Jurnal Ilmiah Hukum 32, no. 1 (2024)), Tongat Tongat (Faculty of Law, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia) “seeks to discuss the implication of the regulation of the death penalty following the promulgation of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Penal Code which has changed the standing of the death penalty from basic punishment to special punishment seen from the perspectives of positive law and Islamic law.”