Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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Sohaira Siddiqui explores how scholars grappled with questions of human reason and knowledge, challenging dominant ideas of Shari'a in "Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni," … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Heterodoxy Among Muslim Judges: On Attempts at Jokes and Judicial Constraints

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Guest contributor Maribel Fierro examines a scene of heterodoxy in the recently published English translation of The Ultimate Ambition. Translated from Arabic into English for the first time in full by Elias Muhanna … Continue reading Heterodoxy Among Muslim Judges: On Attempts at Jokes and Judicial Constraints