By Mahmood Kooria The postclassical commentarial literature of Islamic law, once ignored for being repetitive and inauthentic, now has been receiving considerable scholarly attention. Through the processes of canonization, codification, … Continue reading Commentarial Ocean
This is part 6 and the final post of a six-part series of posts that will examine Anglo-Muhammadan law in the courts of British India. Due to the generally unexplored … Continue reading A Few Concluding Remarks on Anglo-Muhammadan Law
This is part 5 of a six-part series of posts that will examine Anglo-Muhammadan law in the courts of British India. Court Case: Muhammadan law and Construction of Instrument of … Continue reading Shifting Tides in the Application of Islamic Law: Muslim Judges on Colonial Benches
This is part 4 of a six-part series of posts that will examine Anglo-Muhammadan law in the courts of British India. In the last two blog entries I explored how … Continue reading Overturning Islamic Law: Right of Guardianship of a Minor
This is part 2 of a six-part series of posts that will examine Anglo-Muhammadan law in the courts of British India. As noted in the introductory blog post, the application … Continue reading Anglo-Muhammadan Law and “Justice, Equity and Good Conscience”
This is part 1 of a six-part series of posts that will examine Anglo-Muhammadan law in the courts of British India. For this month’s series, I will examine the rise … Continue reading The Birth of Anglo-Muhammadan Law in India
By Dixie Morrison This post is part of the Digital Islamic Law Lab (DILL) series, in which a Harvard student analyzes a primary source of Islamic law, previously workshopped in the DIL … Continue reading Sarabai v. Rabiabai – Divorce as Evasion in Modern India
