SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence (Routledge, 2023), Abdul Wohab (North South University, Bangladesh) argues that "extremist interpretations of Islam, which … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Istanbul, Turkey, the tombs of Islamic religious figures, including Sufi notables, have continued to receive pilgrims seeking divine intervention during the summer. In a … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that 'when the Taliban enacted restrictive bans on higher education for women, governments from across the Muslim world … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Method in Understanding Hadith Through Ijmā' and Its Implications for Islamic Law in Indonesia: Studies on the Hadiths of the Month of Qamariyah" … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Aaron Rock-Singer In previous essays, I have laid out key opportunities and challenges in using media sources to tell an intellectual and social history of Islamic law, with a … Continue reading Audio and Audio-Visual Sources and Pathways Forward
By Aaron Rock-Singer In the previous essay, I argued that periodicals constitute a vital source for reconstructing the process by which particular legal rulings emerge as authoritative, as well as … Continue reading The Challenge of Absence: Writing a History of Salafī practice
By Aaron Rock-Singer The opening essay of this series provided an overview of the pros and cons of studying Islamic law from the perspective of varied media sources, with a … Continue reading Islamic periodicals and Islamic law: the case of gender segregation
By Aaron Rock-Singer The field of pre-modern Islamic history is replete with fascinating studies of social and intellectual history that rely on fatwā collections. Scholars such as David Powers, Jocelyn … Continue reading Sources for Islamic Law and Society in the modern period: A methodological reflection
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Mahmood Kooria (Universiteit Leiden and Ashoka University, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
For the month of August, we are featuring one, in-depth post by our guest editor, Professor Hossein Modarressi, of Princeton University, and will resume our regular schedule of guest editor … Continue reading Theology of Delegation and Its Impact on Islamic Legal Thought
