Asifa Quraishi-Landes, who teaches both Islamic law and U.S. constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently interviewed by Wisconsin Public Television on how the media can play a … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: May 13th
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
Islamic Law Scholars’ Round Up: Dec 17th
SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Asifa Quraishi-Landes has been named the Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the College of William & Mary for spring 2019. In addition, click here to see … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round Up: Dec 17th
Recent Scholarship: Emon on Islamic Finance
SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Anver Emon is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, and recently contributed an essay on the historical and policy debates concerning Islamic finance. Excerpt: Islamic … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Emon on Islamic Finance
SHARIAsource Editors and Senior Scholars’ Round Up: Aug 20th
SHARIAsource Early Abbasid Iraq and Iran Editor Nahed Samour moderated a discussion at the Jewish Museum in Berlin on tolerance of criticism in Judaism and Islam. Meanwhile, an op-ed in … Continue reading SHARIAsource Editors and Senior Scholars’ Round Up: Aug 20th
Syllabus, University of Toronto: Introduction to Islamic Law
The Islamic Law Teaching Project houses collections of syllabi and other teaching material for Islamic law courses taught primarily in law schools of the US and UK. This syllabus is from … Continue reading Syllabus, University of Toronto: Introduction to Islamic Law
Scholarship in “Plain English”: Anver Emon on What We can Learn from Debates about Religious Minorities in Islamic Law
By Alicia Daniel Citation: Anver Emon, Religious Minorities and Islamic Law: Accommodation and the Limits of Tolerance, in Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground? 323–43 … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Anver Emon on What We can Learn from Debates about Religious Minorities in Islamic Law
Islamic Law Lexicon :: Waqf: Charitable endowment; trust
By Alicia Daniel Citation: Anver Emon, Religious Minorities and Islamic Law: Accommodation and the Limits of Tolerance, in Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground? 323–43 … Continue reading Islamic Law Lexicon :: Waqf: Charitable endowment; trust
Is Sharīʿa Incompatible with the Modern Administrative State?
Anver Emon's (Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and SHARIAsource senior scholar) new paper Codification and Islamic Law: The Ideology Behind a Tragic Narrative in … Continue reading Is Sharīʿa Incompatible with the Modern Administrative State?
Rational Actors in Sharīʿa?: An Interview with Professor Anver Emon
Editor’s Note: Professor Anver Emon is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. He is also a senior scholar with … Continue reading Rational Actors in Sharīʿa?: An Interview with Professor Anver Emon