Guest contributor Mara Revkin outlines the legal infrastructure of ISIS. She argues that the movement's barbarism and apparently wanton acts of terrorism belies a self-contained legal system based on Islamic … Continue reading The Construction and Failure of Islamic Laws of Evidence in ISIS’s State-Building Project
A Brief History of the French Burkini Ban
UK/Europe/Southeast Asia editor Rachel Mazzarella chronicles the history of the French burkini ban and its potential efficacy. She weighs the policy options of the European Court of Human Rights and how … Continue reading A Brief History of the French Burkini Ban
Does a Muslim Inmate Have a First Amendment Right to a Halal Meal?
U.S. editor Abed Awad contextualizes a recent case in which a Muslim inmate filed suit against an American prison for failing to provide a halal meal. On August 17, 2016, the American … Continue reading Does a Muslim Inmate Have a First Amendment Right to a Halal Meal?
Commentary :: New Trends in Regulating Risk in Islamic Finance
UAE editor Paul Lee details how Western courts have married Western and Islamic finance without compromising the principle of fair competition. The regulation of Islamic finance has generally been an area to … Continue reading Commentary :: New Trends in Regulating Risk in Islamic Finance
Legal Entrepreneurs in the Halal Industry: The Case of Sharīʿa in China
China editor Matthew S. Erie writes about how the Chinese government's attempts to legally respond to its Muslim Hui population's calls for greater regulation of halal food counters the original secular intentions of a … Continue reading Legal Entrepreneurs in the Halal Industry: The Case of Sharīʿa in China
Is Sharīʿa: Medieval or Modern? (NPR Interview with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl)
In a recent interview aired on NPR, senior scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl disentangles historically-grounded definitions of sharīʿa from public misunderstandings of it. The problems fueling those popular misunderstanding are … Continue reading Is Sharīʿa: Medieval or Modern? (NPR Interview with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl)
No, Newt: Anti-Sharīʿa Rhetoric Doesn’t Change the Law
US Editor Abed Awad summarizes the inaccuracy of Newt Gingrich's proposal. Newt Gingrich told Fox News in an interview last Thursday that “Western civilization is in a war. We should frankly test … Continue reading No, Newt: Anti-Sharīʿa Rhetoric Doesn’t Change the Law
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
OPINION: How Should Muslims Respond to Violence?
Roozbeh Jabbarizadeh, Iran editor, organizes his thoughts about the pressure on Muslims to respond after violent acts. Through the course of terrorist incidents and violent war episodes in which the offenders … Continue reading OPINION: How Should Muslims Respond to Violence?
Muhammad Ali’s Legacy & the Idea of “Civil Rights Shari’a” (BBC Interview with Intisar Rabb)
SHARIAsource founder and editor-in-chief Intisar Rabb discusses Muhammad Alī's legacy with the BBC at his funeral; in standing against injustice through practicing what we might call the 1960s idea of a … Continue reading Muhammad Ali’s Legacy & the Idea of “Civil Rights Shari’a” (BBC Interview with Intisar Rabb)