South Asia editor Jeff Redding compares the British sharīʿa courts debate to similar debates going on in India. He examines the semantic approach of the current debate, and questions whether this approach fully encompasses the … Continue reading A Court by Any Other Name: State ‘Courts’ and Sharīʿa Councils
OPINION :: On Orlando, Sexuality and Sharīʿa
When news of Orlando first broke, my first instinct was that a gay man had perpetrated the atrocities that the world witnessed there. The first fragments of information that came … Continue reading OPINION :: On Orlando, Sexuality and Sharīʿa