Islamic Law Blog

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: Jadaliyya interviewed Rosemary Admiral (University of Texas at Dallas) about Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco (Syracuse University Press), “a history of how women encountered and navigated Islamic law in premodern Morocco.” In “Integrity of Qur’anic Legislations: A Critical Review of the Debate on Abrogation” (Comparative Islamic Studies), Ahmed Ali Salem (Zayed University)… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In Early Islamic Law in Ḥadīth Texts from Basra: The Book of Prayer and The Book of Marriage by Jābir b. Zayd (d. c. 93/712-3) (Brill), Abdulrahman al-Salmi (German University of Technology) observes that “these two authentic texts, which include Islamic law topics and ḥadīth of the Prophet, date from the last quarter of the… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In “Meat and Religious Difference in Colonial India: the Courage and Contradictions of Sayyid Ahmad Khan” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) “conducts a detailed reading of the paradigmatic South Asian Muslim modernist scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s (d.1898) views on Indian Muslims dining with or… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In The Logic of al-Fanari: A Study and Annotated Translation of al-Fanari’s Commentary on the Isaghuji (Lockwood Press), former PIL Fellow Aaron Spevack (Brandeis University) “delves into the 15th-century logic text by Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 1431), a foundational work in the Ottoman seminary tradition. Rather than offering a standard annotated translation alone, Spevack also provides… CONTINUE READING

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In Mantle of the Sufi Kings: Political Sufism and the Rise of Early Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press), Hani Khafipour (State University of New York at Buffalo) “explores how loyalty, social cohesion, and power dynamics found in Sufi thought underpinned the Safavid community’s sources of social power and determination. Once in power, the Safavid state’s patronage… CONTINUE READING