Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto Faculty of Law) reviews Rudolph Peters' Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2020) in the Journal of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Human Rights Norms from Below" (Yale Journal of International Law 48, no. 1 (2023)), Adnan A. Zulfiqar (Rutgers Law School) "argues that effective promotion … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Ari Schriber (University of Toronto) reviews Jocelyn Hendrickson's (University of Alberta) Leaving Iberia Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard University Press, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Persuading the Taliban to Guarantee Education for Afghan Girls and Women" (Jurist, March 30, 2023), L. Ali Khan (Washburn University School of Law) argues … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Moral Authority in Islamic Law: A Reflection of Khaled Abou Fadel" (GeoTimes, January 19, 2023), Rifqi Nurdiansyah, reviewing Fadel's life and scholarship, writes: "Abou … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Iran Isn’t the Only Country With Morality Police" (Council on Foreign Relations (January 11, 2023)), Kali Robinson (Council on Foreign Relations) writes that it … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts" (Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, September 26, 2022), Garrett Davidson (The College of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2022), Marion Holmes Katz (New York University) "offers a new account of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Uncommon Common Sense: What We May Never Know About Mutʿa Marriage

By Rami Koujah This post is part of a series of posts on the latest publication in our Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Hossein Modarressi’s Text and Interpretation: Imam Jaʿfar … Continue reading Uncommon Common Sense: What We May Never Know About Mutʿa Marriage

An Excerpt from Text and Interpretation on Mutʿa Marriage

By Hossein Modarressi Edited and summarized by Rami Koujah This post is part of a series of posts on the latest publication in our Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Hossein … Continue reading An Excerpt from Text and Interpretation on Mutʿa Marriage