Mansurah Izzul Mohamed, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School will discuss her current research on how some Southeast Asian countries introduce and/or implement sharīʿa law practices. She will assess the history of the region and whether this model will hold up in the face of political, economic and human rights pressure from the wider … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Southeast Asian Model of Sharīʿa Law? The Evolution and Possibility in Southeast Asian countries

Early Islamic political theory as it enjoyed currency among the scholarly classes alternated between two possibilities: legal functionalism and political anthropology.  Critical to our understanding of these intellectual trends and their conceptual contours is an understanding of a "theoretical turn" in early Islamic thought which created the preconditions for a theory of power, and the … Continue reading ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology