- “The supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Hibatullah Akundzada has called on religious scholars to strengthen the implementation of Sharia and preserve the history of jihad.” 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.”
- “A televised interview with Sadık Albayrak, an in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a longtime ideologue in Turkey’s political Islamist movement, has revealed that Erdogan personally confided in him about plans to revive the Ottoman-era Meşihat, the office of the Şeyhülislam (Sheikh al-Islam or Grand Mufti), which once served as the supreme religious authority in the Ottoman Empire.”
- “Standard Life has launched the Sharia Universal Strategic Lifestyle Profile, a pension plan option which is compliant with Islamic law. The firm said it has been ‘certified from the top down’ by independent Sharia advisers, iConsult Africa.”
- “A growing number of Ghanaian Gen-Z Muslims on scoial media are strongly pushing for the right of Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men, particularly Christians.”
- “Ministry of Interior of Bahrain said it is currently examining unlawful practices, including the exploitation of various institutions by ideological and religious movements to spread misleading pro-Iranian narratives in the kingdom…in order to deepen the influence of Iran‘s Wilayat al-Faqih doctrine under a religious cover within various sectors of Bahraini society.”