"Property and Its Rule (in Late Indo-Islamicate and Early Colonial) South Asia: What’s in a Name?" by Faisal Chaudhry, University of Dayton - School of Law; University of Dayton, published in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. This article sets out a framework for understanding two key issues in the history of … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Chaudhry on Indo-Islamicate Land Systems
This week’s issue of SSRN’s Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal includes: "The Role of Indonesian Constitutional Court in Resolving Disputes Among the State Organs" by Khairil Azmin Mokhtar, International Islamic University Malaysia, Aberystwyth University, and Iwan Satriawan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. This paper attempts to assess the role of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia in the process … Continue reading Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal: September 6
Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids: The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd by Camilo Gómez-Rivas. From the publisher: "Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids. The Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib investigates the development of legal institutions in the Far Maghrib during its unification with al-Andalus under the … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Gómez-Rivas on the Development of Legal Institutions in the Far Maghrib
This week’s issue of SSRN’s Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal includes: "Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul" by Asli Cansunar and Timur Kuran This paper ascribes a fundamental role to prior shifts in wealth toward non-Muslims and away from conservative groups, including Muslim clerics. These shifts, all under way in … Continue reading Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal: August 23
This week’s issue of SSRN’s Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal includes: "Sharia Supervisory Boards, Governance Structures and Operational Risk Disclosures: Evidence from Islamic Banks in MENA Countries" by Ahmed Elamer, Collins Ntim, Hussein Abdou, and Chris Pyke This paper examines the impact of Sharia supervisory board (SSB) and governance structures on the extent of operational risk disclosures … Continue reading Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal: August 16
The Economics of Ottoman Justice: Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts by Metin Coşgel, University of Connecticut and Boğaç Ergene, University of Vermont published. From the publisher: "During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire endured long periods of warfare, facing intense financial pressures and new international mercantile and monetary trends. The Empire also experienced major political-administrative restructuring and socioeconomic transformations. … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Coşgel and Ergene on Ottoman Justice
Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University Qatar, recently published "Navigating Colonial Power: Challenging Precedents and the Limitation of Local Elites" in Islamic Law and Society 26:3 (13 June 2019), 1-41. "In 1869, the British allowed Muslims to sit as judges on the High Court. This article explores the legal opinions of the first Muslim judge to be appointed to the High Court, … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Siddiqui on Syed Mahmood
"Law and Other Things," a blog about India's laws and legal system, has been hosting a book discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia (2018). The book explores the colonial underpinnings of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Here is an excerpt of Professor Jhuma Sen's response: Governing Islam: Law, … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Sen Responds to Stephens’ “Governing Islam”
This week’s issue of SSRN’s LSN Law & Religion eJournal includes: "Veiled Muslim Women: Challenging Patriarchy in the Legal System" by Zainab Ramahi This essay is an attempt to abandon the white male gaze of the Canadian legal system and investigate what legal projections of veiled Muslim women might reveal about the operation of patriarchy in the western legal … Continue reading LSN Law & Religion eJournal: July 31
“Law and Other Things,” a blog about India’s laws and legal system, will host a book discussion on Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia (2018). The book explores the colonial underpinnings of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Here is Professor Rohit De‘s introduction to the book … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Rohit De Introduces Book Discussion on Julia Stephen’s “Governing Islam”
