Islamic law scholarship round-up

In Slavery and the Shaping of the Muslim Family (De Gruyter), Cristina de la Puente (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo), Karen Moukheiber (University of Balamond) and Serena Tolino (University of Bern) delve “into the wide-ranging and complex subject of slavery within the familial sphere of Islamic societies. For too long, secondary literature has… CONTINUE READING

In an episode of Unlocking Academia, “host Raja Aderdor speaks with Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Associate Professor at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics and Director of the Master’s program in Applied Islamic Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Together, they explore Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics (Brill, 2024), a groundbreaking edited volume that… CONTINUE READING

In “The Roots And Persistence Of Terengganu’s Hardline Approach To Islamic Law” (Eurasia Review), Mohd Faizal Musa (ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute) observes that “the Muslim populace of [Terengganu, Malaysia] remains unwavering in their demand for the full implementation of Islamic law…[so] that any incoming government must acknowledge and conform to the socio-political, Malay-Islamic cultural, and… CONTINUE READING

In “Contesting the Zaydi Political Tradition in Early Modern Yemen: an Edition of Imam Yaḥyā Sharaf al-Dīn’s Will of 18 Ramadan 933/27 June 1527” (Shii Studies Review), Ekaterina Pukhovaia (Utrecht University) presents “a unique manuscript housed in the Imam Zayd b. ʿAlī Cultural Foundation [that] preserves the earliest known copy of a will (waṣiyya) of… CONTINUE READING

In “The Succession to the Prophet in Zaydi Theology: An Editio Princeps of a Treatise on the Imamate from the Early Sixth/Twelfth Century” (Shii Studies Review), Hassan Ansari (Institute for Advanced Study) and others argue that “the Mukhtaṣar fī l-imāma is most likely authored by Zayd b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Bayhaqī al-Burūghanī (d. c. 545/1150),… CONTINUE READING

Radio ReOrient interviewed Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California) about The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press), which “provocatively challenges the assumption that the secular is external to Islam and the Islamicate.” See part 1 here and part two here. In “Aligning Islamic ethics with reproductive health policy: addressing gaps in early termination access in Saudi… CONTINUE READING

In “What Do Sources Say about Agricultural Slavery (and Why Don’t They Say More)? A Study on Legal Sources for Early Islamic Ifrīqiya” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Antonia Bosanquet (Utrecht University) “examines the evidence for agricultural slavery in early Islamic Ifrīqiya and relates it to the existing historiography on… CONTINUE READING

Jadaliyya interviewed Rosemary Admiral (University of Texas at Dallas) about Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco (Syracuse University Press), “a history of how women encountered and navigated Islamic law in premodern Morocco.” In “Integrity of Qur’anic Legislations: A Critical Review of the Debate on Abrogation” (Comparative Islamic Studies), Ahmed Ali Salem (Zayed University)… CONTINUE READING

In Early Islamic Law in Ḥadīth Texts from Basra: The Book of Prayer and The Book of Marriage by Jābir b. Zayd (d. c. 93/712-3) (Brill), Abdulrahman al-Salmi (German University of Technology) observes that “these two authentic texts, which include Islamic law topics and ḥadīth of the Prophet, date from the last quarter of the… CONTINUE READING

In “Meat and Religious Difference in Colonial India: the Courage and Contradictions of Sayyid Ahmad Khan” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) “conducts a detailed reading of the paradigmatic South Asian Muslim modernist scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s (d.1898) views on Indian Muslims dining with or… CONTINUE READING