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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Reviewing Sherman Jackson‘s (USC) The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press, 2023), Mustafa Akyol argues that the book’s main thesis is “that Islamic law, namely the…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “Glimpses of Islamic manuscript culture in Palestine” (UCLA Library, November 7, 2024), Sohaib Baig (UCLA) describes “manuscripts [housed in the UCLA Library that] illustrate…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “A Reflection on Hadith Evidences Regarding the Validity of Official and Ordinary Documents in Islamic Law” (The Quarterly Journal of Islamic Law Research 25,…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “Dark Deeds, Broken Bodies: Medieval Islamic Narratives of Violence against Corpses” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists 32), Taryn Marashi (Augsburg University)…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Society of the Righteous: Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania (Indiana University Press, 2024) Kimberly T. Wortmann (Wake Forest University) argues that “[a]lthough the…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “Veiling Laws Throughout Iranian History: The Relationship to Religion, Before and During Islamic Law” (SSRN, September 20, 2024), Nicolas Garon (Southern University Law Center) questions…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In “Analysis of Islamic Law in the Context of Lethal Injection for Terminated Patients in Indonesia” (Perwakilan: Journal of Good Governance, Diplomacy, Customary Institutionalization and…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law (Oxford University Press, 2024), Faisal…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Simon Doubleday (Hofstra University) talked with Jerrilynn Dodds about her new book: Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia: Arts and Ambivalence (Arc Humanities Press, 2024). In…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law The Resilience of Multiculturalism: Ideas, Politics, Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), edited by Thomas Sealy, Varun Uberoi, Nasar Meer, brings together chapters that discuss Tariq Modood’s ideas…