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 "Repeated testimonies and data show that depriving women of inheritance remains an entrenched social pattern in Syria, fed by a mix of family pressure and … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Intellectual Practice and Manuscript Culture in Early Islamic North Africa" (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā), Clément Salah (University of Oxford ) "examines the figure of Abū al-ʿArab … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Stakeholders are promoting Islamic microfinance as a solution to financial exclusion in the Philippines, following a capacity-building workshop at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology." … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia" (Journal of the Economic and Social … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "While Islamic law recognizes that war may sometimes become necessary, particularly in self-defense, it places strict limits on how war may be conducted." Halal tourism … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Perpetuating Property and Kinship: Matrilineal Family Waqfs in 20th-Century Colonial Malabar, South India" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Abdulla … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Zealous officials burned their predecessors’ romance novels. Now, young Muslim women in northern Nigeria publish their erotic books in installments on WhatsApp." In Nigeria, "the … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Reconfiguring Political Islam: A Discursive Tradition Approach" (American Journal of Islam and Society), Abbas Jong (Freie Universität Berlin) "reconceptualizes Political Islam through the analytic … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Brunei Darussalam, a recent Friday sermon "emphasised the importance of upholding Islamic law as a foundation for justice, social harmony and national stability" in … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran" (Constitutional Discourse), Batuhan Aydın (University of Szeged) "traces the origins of Iran’s constitutional identity … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
