Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: Khairudin Aljunied (Georgetown University) reviews Mahmood Kooria‘s Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022). In “The Role Of Islamic Banks In Improving The Indonesian Economy” (International Journal of Education, Vocational and Social Science 3, no. 1 (2024)) Tiffani Tiffani (UIN Imam Bonjol Padang, Indonesia) and others… CONTINUE READING

The Endangered Sharīʿa

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By Ovamir Anjum Murder is afoot, and modernity stands accused. The victim is the Sharīʿa, and the autopsy is grim: temporal lacerations, institutional mutilations, a missing heart. Not merely a … Continue reading The Endangered Sharīʿa

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “[T]he U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva reportedly confirmed that ‘anecdotal evidence’ about [Afghan] girls being permitted to attend Islamic schools was mounting, [along with] worried about whether the girls would be able to study modern subjects in the madrassas and that a generation of Afghan girls were falling behind.” In response, “[a] Taliban official sa[id… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: Zak Leonard reviews Elizabeth Lhost‘s (UCLA) Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022) in the Journal of Church & State. In “Abū Yaʿrub al-Marzūqī and His Critique of the maqāṣid theory” (Religions 14, no. 9 (2023)), Abdessamad Belhaj (Institute of Religion and Society, University… CONTINUE READING

Madhhab as Law

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By Yavuz Aykan This is the fourth essay in a series of four essays on "Why the Ottoman fiqh? Reading Ḥanafī jurisprudence in its historical longue durée." In my previous essay, I have … Continue reading Madhhab as Law

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “The United States and human rights defenders […] renewed a call for Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to allow female students to return to universities and ensure that women have access to education at all levels.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Philanthropy in Practice: Role of Zakat in the Realization of Justice and Economic Growth” (International Journal of Zakat, December 19, 2023), Bilal Ahmad Malik (University of Kashmir) argues that “[t]he entire economic scheme developed under the guiding principles of Shari’ah (Islamic Law) envisages an internally balanced system of economy that neither accepts capitalism nor… CONTINUE READING

Modest Yet Crucial: The Work of a Provincial Muftī

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By Yavuz Aykan This is the third essay in a series of four essays on "Why the Ottoman fiqh? Reading Ḥanafī jurisprudence in its historical longue durée." In my second essay, I described … Continue reading Modest Yet Crucial: The Work of a Provincial Muftī