Dr. Muhammad Zubair Abbasi specializes in Islamic law and comparative law. His research examines the relationship between sharīʿa and state legal systems in Muslim-majority and Western societies, Muslim personal law in South Asia, and the transformative impact of generative AI on legal systems. He holds a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford and an LLM from the University of Manchester. He is based at the School of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Post History
Authored Works
- ::Roundtable:: Augmented Learning: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Islamic Inheritance Law
- Conjoined Twins: Human Rights and Islam in the Constitutional System of Pakistan
- Islamic Judicial Review in Practice (3): Sharia and State Law
- Islamic Judicial Review in Practice (2): Strategic Islamization of Laws
- Islamic Judicial Review in Practice (1): Decolonization through Islamization of Laws
- The Impact of Islamic Judicial Review in Pakistan
- Islamic Constitutionalism in Pakistan: Is it Theocratic?
- Islamic Constitutionalism in Pakistan: Does it Matter?
- Marriage as Children’s Play: Unregistered Islamic Marriages under English Law
- Commentary :: Criminalization of Triple Ṭalāq in India: A Dilemma for Religiously Divorced but Legally Married Muslim Women
- Reasserting the Authority of State: Comment on Asia Bibi v The State
- Commentary: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Islamic Endowments (Awqāf)
- In Response to the Indian Supreme Court’s Recent Decision on Triple Ṭalāq: A Legislative Proposal
- Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan on Surrogacy: From Judicial Islamization of Laws to Judicial Legislation
- Women’s Right to Divorce under Islamic Law in Pakistan and India
- The Long Shadow of England’s Privy Council Cast on the Islamic Law of Trusts in British India
Other Scholarship
- ::Roundtable:: Knowledge in the Islamic Court
- Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: Apr 8
- Recent Scholarship: Abbasi on Islamic Divorce Law
- In the News: Triple Ṭalāq Criminalized in India
- FEATURE :: Roundtable on Pakistan’s Landmark Blasphemy Case: Asia Bibi v. The State (2018)
- Recent Scholarship: Cheema and Abbasi on Islamic Family Law in Pakistan
- Round-up on Triple Ṭalāq