- “The Taliban’s continued imposition of strict interpretations of Islamic law and Afghan culture has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on women and girls, the UN envoy for the country warned [recently].” 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.”
- “The Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), an international autonomous non-profit organization that sets the standards in the Islamic finance space, [has been] considering new guidelines on sukuk, Standard 62, that could transform how fixed-income sukuk are structured and distributed.”
- In Iran, “the judiciary ha[s] filed a case regarding Ahmady’s concert performance, in which she performed wearing a long black sleeveless and collarless dress, but no hijab.” 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.”