Playing with Islamic Law in the Undergraduate Classroom

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By Elizabeth Urban For my final essay, I want to move away from research and into pedagogy. I teach a 4/4 load at a regional university. Most of my students … Continue reading Playing with Islamic Law in the Undergraduate Classroom

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS “Speaking at a gathering held in the Academy of Science of Afghanistan, head of the Darul Iftah (a decision-making entity within the Supreme Court), Azizullah Mutaheri, said that the implementation of Sharia Hudod has its certain conditions.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup:… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “The use of Cayman Islands structures in Islamic real estate financings in the UK” (JD Supra, November 14, 2023), Walkers attorneys outline how Islamic law-compliant transaction structures such as murābaḥa are used to fund the acquisition of UK real estate. In “Taking a look at Shariah-compliant investment funds” (FootAnstey, November 17, 2023), Karl Bradford and… CONTINUE READING

Vocabularies of Enslavement & Unfreedom

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By Elizabeth Urban For the results I presented in my first and second essays, I used the search function on al-Maktaba al-Shamela to search for the key terms mawlāh and … Continue reading Vocabularies of Enslavement & Unfreedom

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s special representative on Afghanistan, recently stated: ““They say it [i.e. restrictions on women’s access to education] is Islamic. It is not Islamic. It may be the [Afghan] tribal or cultural [practice], but it is not Islamic.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Harmonizing Islam and Human Rights Through the Reconstruction of Classical Islamic Tradition” (Samarah 7, no. 1 (2023)), Tamyiz Mukharrom and Supriyanto Abdi argue that “philosophically harmonization between Islam and human rights is quite possible to be carried out through the reconstruction of classical Islamic traditions, so that a dialectic occurs that builds and complements… CONTINUE READING

Freedwomen in Ibn Abī Shayba’s al-Muṣannaf

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By Elizabeth Urban In my previous essay, I wrote about how ʿAbd al-Razzāq’s (d. 211/827) al-Muṣannaf features freedwomen in “tricky” inheritance cases; in this essay I turn to Ibn Abī … Continue reading Freedwomen in Ibn Abī Shayba’s al-Muṣannaf

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In her opening remarks at the Opening Ceremony of the International Conference on Women in Islam, the United Nations Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed stated: “Islam clearly calls on us to end all discriminatory laws and practices that hinder access to education.” “Just weeks after UAE changed its laws to permit surrogacy in the country,… CONTINUE READING

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Snapshot: succession law in Saudi Arabia” (Lexology, November 4, 2023), Belal Hashmi (Al Marbae & Partners Law Firm) provides an overview of Saudi inheritance law, noting that “[i]n Saudi Arabia, an individual’s estate for succession purposes is determined by Islamic law, specifically the principles of Shari’a.” In “Islamic Law and Customary Law in Contemporary… CONTINUE READING

Freedwomen in ʿAbd al-Razzāq’s al-Muṣannaf

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By Elizabeth Urban Scholars who have studied manumission in early Islamic contexts have usually focused on male freedmen (mawālī).[1] Conversely, scholars who have studied unfree women have usually focused on … Continue reading Freedwomen in ʿAbd al-Razzāq’s al-Muṣannaf