SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dr. Tauseef Ahmad Parray (Higher Education Department, Jammu & Kashmir, India) "provides an … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto Faculty of Law) reviews Rudolph Peters' Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2020) in the Journal of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS According to data from India's Darul Qaza, or Islamic arbitration center, more divorces have been sought through khula, whereby the woman petitions a judge for … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Jocelyn Hendrickson's book, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard UP, 2021), has been shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association's … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
In "Partition of Punjab: How a Secularist Province Developed Communal Consciousness" (SSRN, August 9, 2021), Eshwar Venkataswamy (Philips Academy) discusses how Punjab, a peaceful region where inter-communal relations between Muslims, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
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Last Wednesday, Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, received an injection of the Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine. Johor (Malaysian state) ruler Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar imposed new restrictions under the Movement … Continue reading COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup
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The Indonesian Ulema Council, the country's highest Islamic authority, announced that China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines are permissible under Islamic law.
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President of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband, Arshad Madani, among the leading Islamic scholars in India, stated that the COVID-19 vaccine is permissible under Islamic law. … Continue reading COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup
In "Don’t Uncover that Face! COVID-19 Masks and the Niqab: Ironic Transfigurations of the ECtHR’s Intercultural Blindness" (International Journal of Semiot Law (2020)), Mario Ricca (University of Parma) investigates whether … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Limeng Sun 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 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Regulation on De-Radicalization
