The Islamic Law Blog publishes weekly roundups to keep our followers abreast of the latest news, developments and scholarship relating to Islamic law.
To that end, we offer five weekly roundups:
(1) Islamic Law in the News Roundup: a summary of developments in Islamic law from across the globe.
(2) Weekend Scholarship Roundup: a list of newly-published scholarship on all subjects relating to Islamic law, ranging from books and articles to shorter opinion pieces and other audio-visual mediums.
(3) Islam and Data Science Roundup: a list of scholarship, surveys, statistical studies, and other material that employ data science on any matter pertaining to Islam and Islamic law.
(4) Field Guide to Islamic Law Online: a weekly list introducing two online resources of Islamic law, ranging from e-archives to e-libraries, from digitized personal collections to online depositories of first and secondary sources on Islamic law.
(5) COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup: a list of recent COVID-19-related developments in Muslim-majority countries and among Islamic communities. Related to this particular roundup is our Mapping COVID-19 Fatwās project, which compiles and discusses various Islamic legal opinions issued all across the globe on the pandemic and how Muslims ought to conduct themselves in the fight against it.
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Sheikh Abdullah Saleh Kamel, chairman of the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Development (ICCD), affirmed that the halal economy has become a strategic pillar in … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Spaces for Women in Mosques: Past, Present and Future" (Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture), Bernard O’Kane (American University in Cairo) "explores first the historical … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Shaykh Ahmad Gumi, Mufti of the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna, Nigeria, "has urged Islamic judges and clerics to ensure that women suffering from domestic … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts” (Comparative Studies in Society and History), Tommaso Stefini (Sabancı Üniversitesi) “examines … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Saudi Arabia has officially "appointed a prominent ultraconservative scholar...as the country’s new grand mufti, the kingdom’s top religious scholar. Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, 90, … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “Between Law and Politics: Islamic Judges in the South Indian Littoral, 1808–1885” (Law and History Review), Saumyashree Ghosh (Yale Law School) “offers a fresh … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Kenya’s growing appetite for ethical and Sharia-compliant business models took centre stage at the 2nd Edition of the Sharia Compliance and Halal Business Expo" in … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Dynamics of Tradition: Islamic Theology and Law in Relation (Brill), editors Idris Nassery and Muna Tatari invite readers to “explore how Islamic theology and … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "The Malaysian government announced that it will be "digitizing the Syariah court system via the E-Syariah platform...[which] allows the public to register and track the … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “Women’s Gifting of Their Inheritance Share to Male Kin Is Void: A Study of Late Ottoman Fatwas on Social Coercion” (British Journal of Middle … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
