Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Maldives-Middle East Connections” (Middle East Institute, September 20, 2022), Michael B. Bishku (Augusta University) provides a primer on the Maldives and the country’s engagement…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Islamic Law in the globalised world” (Graphic Online, September 9, 2022), Dr. Salah Muhammad Salis (Centre for Islamic Thought and Civilisation) argues that Islamic…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “U.S. Tax Law and Sharia-Compliant Financing Structures” (SSRN, August 13, 2022), Ahmed Altawyan (Saudi Electronic University) “overviews the tax rules for Islamic finance to…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Translating Islamic sources” (Great Kashmir, August 31, 2022), Furqan Majeed (Central University of Kashmir) explores the various translation movements of the Qur’ān in the…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: The recently founded “Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR) is a peer-reviewed journal covering the field of Middle Eastern and Islamicate Digital Humanities (DH). It…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Contributions of Medieval Muslim Scholars to the History of Economics and their Impact: A Refutation of the Schumpeterian Great Gap” (in A Companion to…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In a special episode of Borderlines, a legal podcast by Berkeley Law, entitled “Interpreting MetaCanons,” Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb “talk[s] about her leading research on…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: “The renowned scholar Syed Abul Ala Maududi, in a joint gathering of Sh[ī’ī] and Sunn[ī] people, delivered a speech in Urdu on the topic of…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In The Palestinian Constitutional Court : an assessment of its independence under the emergency regime (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Osayd Awawda (Hebron University) “assesses the…
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “The Battle Over Family Law in Egypt Shows Only the Personal Can Be Political, And Then Only So Far” (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,…