SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Rethinking marriage—and divorce—in Muslim Indonesia" (University of Colorado Boulder Blog) "CU Boulder sociologist Rachel Rinaldo’s research uncovers how Indonesian women are re-shaping marriage and … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In a recent episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, Shehnaz Haqqani (Mercer University) and Edith Szanto (University of Alabama) "explore specific Muharram practices, including … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press), Omar Youssef Cheta (Syracuse University) observes that "when Egypt's markets … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press), Marielle Risse (Dhofar University) "examines how middle-class Muslim men and women in Dhofar, Oman, make … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Three lives, one vision: how Dunant, Demidoff and Abdelkader shaped modern humanitarianism" (ICRC Blog) International Committee of the Red Cross experts Anastasia Kushleyko, Cédric … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Reform (Oxford University Press), edited by Emad Hamdeh (Embry-Riddle University) and Natana J. DeLong-Bas (Boston College), "provides a comprehensive examination … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Erin Braatz (Suffolk University Law School) recently reviewed Rabiat Akande's (University of Toronto) Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press). … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Integrating Energy Justice and Maqasid al-Shariah to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Malaysia" (International Review of Law), former PIL Senior Research Fellow … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In The Islamic Reform Movement of the Association of Algerian ʿUlamaʾ, 1931–1954 (Brill), Shoko Watanabe (University of Tokyo) asks, "How are we to understand the … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In a recent podcast, Amanie Antar (University of Toronto) interviews Gijs Kruijtzer (independent scholar): "How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
