Islamic Law in the News: Nailah Dean, writer and activist, has introduced her "ISMS Project," comprising a series of images to demonstrate what she terms the "Muslim Marriage Crisis" in … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
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The Western Sydney community leaders in Australia, including Sydney sheikh Shadi Alsuleiman, have attempted to dispel unscientific notions about the coronavirus vaccine by posting videos of themselves getting vaccinated. Kent … Continue reading COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup
The National Association of Muslim Police, a national association in the United Kingdom that brings together more than 2,000 Muslim members of British law enforcement, recently published its annual report … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup
By Nurfadzilah Yahaya My book Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) traces changing notions of family and clan across legal cultures in the … Continue reading Family Law as Colonial Specter of Shelter
A Reuters investigation of Indonesia's banking and finance sector revealed that an increasing number of Muslims employed in that sector are "quitting traditional banks" citing concerns of incompatibility with Islamic … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
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Saudi Arabia announced that a coronavirus vaccine would be mandatory in order to participate in this year's pilgrimage (hajj). The Muslim Council of Britain recently issued its latest coronavirus best … Continue reading COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup
The rejected plan for the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast via loudspeakers from Peterborough's (UK) mosque will be reconsidered, after it was revealed that the city council website … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Saudi Arabia announced its intention to roll out judicial reforms aimed at codifying the country's fundamental laws. A city council in Peterborough (UK) rejected an application to broadcast the call … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
In "Ethno-religious socialisation, national culture and the social construction of British Muslim identity" (Contemporary Islam 14 (November 2020)), Riyaz Timol (Cardiff University) interrogates extant theories of socialization and how and … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup
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As companies continue to develop vaccines against COVID-19, questions about whether these vaccines contain pork-derived ingredients continue to occupy the minds of many Muslims. Salman Waqar from the British Islamic … Continue reading COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup
