Thank you, Aaron Rock-Singer, for joining us as guest blog editor in February. In case you missed his essays, here they are: Sources for Islamic Law and Society in the … Continue reading Thank you, Aaron Rock-Singer!
Thank you, Aaron Rock-Singer!
Audio and Audio-Visual Sources and Pathways Forward
By Aaron Rock-Singer In previous essays, I have laid out key opportunities and challenges in using media sources to tell an intellectual and social history of Islamic law, with a … Continue reading Audio and Audio-Visual Sources and Pathways Forward
The Challenge of Absence: Writing a History of Salafī practice
By Aaron Rock-Singer In the previous essay, I argued that periodicals constitute a vital source for reconstructing the process by which particular legal rulings emerge as authoritative, as well as … Continue reading The Challenge of Absence: Writing a History of Salafī practice
Islamic periodicals and Islamic law: the case of gender segregation
By Aaron Rock-Singer The opening essay of this series provided an overview of the pros and cons of studying Islamic law from the perspective of varied media sources, with a … Continue reading Islamic periodicals and Islamic law: the case of gender segregation
Sources for Islamic Law and Society in the modern period: A methodological reflection
By Aaron Rock-Singer The field of pre-modern Islamic history is replete with fascinating studies of social and intellectual history that rely on fatwā collections. Scholars such as David Powers, Jocelyn … Continue reading Sources for Islamic Law and Society in the modern period: A methodological reflection
Welcome to our February Guest Blogger: Aaron Rock-Singer
Aaron Rock-Singer is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a research focus on 20th century Islamic movements and states. He uses the tools of social and intellectual history … Continue reading Welcome to our February Guest Blogger: Aaron Rock-Singer
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Anna Piela (Northwestern University) argues that niqāb, the Islamic face … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
In the article “Did Premodern Muslims Distinguish the Religious and Secular? The Dīn–Dunyā Binary in Medieval Islamic Thought” (Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2020), Rushain Abbasi challenges … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: Feb 25th
Many of SHARIAsource’s Senior Scholars were recognized in Brill’s Islamic Law and Society journal as writers of the top 15 articles written in the 25 years of ILS. In celebration … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: Feb 25th