SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Transformation of Islamic Property and Evidentiary Law in Colonial-era Morocco: The Case of Shuf'a as Préemption" (Die Welt des Islams, July 31, 2024), … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Professor Radwan El Sayed (Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities) reviews Intisar A. Rabb (Harvard Law School) and Abigail Krasner Balbale's (New York University) edited … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Ari Schriber (University of Toronto) reviews Jocelyn Hendrickson's (University of Alberta) Leaving Iberia Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard University Press, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
From the organizers: We are very excited to be kicking off our spring program next Monday, February 1, 6:00-7:30pm (EST). Ari Schriber (PhD Candidate, NELC) will present a draft dissertation … Continue reading Webinar: Paternity Claim, Lineage, and Slavery: Adjudicating Istilḥāq in Colonial Moroccan Sharīʿa Courts by Ari Schriber, Harvard University, February 1, 2021 @ 6 – 7:30 pm
Earlier this year, Tunisia lifted the 1973 ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men and is considering equalizing inheritance laws for men and women, on arguments that the mixed marriage … Continue reading Commentary :: Codifying Polygamy in the 1957 Moroccan Mudawwana
During a time when there are global questions about stable Muslim-majority states that have combined Islamic law with state law, SHARIAsource editor Ari Schriber convincingly demonstrates that Morocco's 1965 Court … Continue reading Commentary :: The Dissolution of Sharīʿa in the 1965 Moroccan Court Unification Law
Amidst the tensions raised by Islamic constitutional states as they deal with non-Muslim minorities, worth considering is how Muslim-majority states have resolved the issue in the past. Morocco editor Ari Schriber considers the … Continue reading Commentary :: The Limits of State Religion in the Moroccan ‘Baha’i Affair’
