- In an episode of Unlocking Academia, “host Raja Aderdor speaks with Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Associate Professor at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics and Director of the Master’s program in Applied Islamic Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Together, they explore Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics (Brill, 2024), a groundbreaking edited volume that brings together foundational texts spanning hadith, fiqh, kalam, Sufism, and Islamic medicine.”
- In “Reassessing the Family Waqf: New Insights on the Relation Between Family, Wealth, and Islamic Doctrine,” Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen) and Dominik Krell (University of Oxford ) introduce a special issue of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. The issue makes three interventions: “the family waqf is alive,” “much of what we believe to know about the family waqf has been shaped by the specific Ottoman experience,” and “the family waqf is not necessarily a patriarchal institution.”