By Dominik Krell Introduction Saudi Arabia has a reputation for harsh criminal punishments. In 2025, a record number of 356 people were executed in the Kingdom.[1] Apart from the extensive … Continue reading The Expansion of Taʿzīr in Modern Saudi Arabia
By Dominik Krell Introduction In 2016, a short video clip circulated on the internet, in which the Saudi scholar Ṣāliḥ b. Fawzān al-Fawzān answered questions in a TV broadcast. A … Continue reading The New Grand Mufti and the Future of Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia
By Dominik Krell Introduction Over the last decade, the Saudi government has introduced foreign law on a large scale. In many areas, legislation borrowed from Europe and North America now … Continue reading Is Saudi Arabia’s Legal System Still ‘Islamic’?
Dominik Krell is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. His research focuses on the … Continue reading Welcome to our April Guest Bloggers: Dominik Krell and Muhammad Zubair Abbasi
