By Elizabeth Urban Scholars who have studied manumission in early Islamic contexts have usually focused on male freedmen (mawālī).[1] Conversely, scholars who have studied unfree women have usually focused on … Continue reading Freedwomen in ʿAbd al-Razzāq’s al-Muṣannaf
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Role of Islamic Finance in the Capital Market in Uzbekistan" (European Journal of Innovation in Informal Education 2, no. 1 (2022)), Z.A. Kayimova … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS After Yul Edochie, the Nollywood actor and politician, announced that he has a second wife who has delivered a baby boy, debates about Nigeria's marriage … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
In a book review titled “Isn’t the Opposite Equally True?” written for the London Review of Books, former Program in Islamic Law fellow Lawrence Rosen (Princeton University) reviews two recent … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law is holding virtual panel discussion in their series Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law of the Research Group on Family and … Continue reading Conference: Covid-19: implications for the application of family law in MENA countries, 1 July (virtual)
The Centre of Islamic Studies and CRASSH at the University of Cambridge are hosting a joint virtual conference on the 25th of June. This event will explore the challenges and … Continue reading Conference: Fostering Ethics – Islam, Adoption and the Care of Children (25 June, Virtual Conference – University of Cambridge)
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 Shamim Ara and the “Judicialization” of Divorce
That marriage creates certain rights and obligations goes without saying. The legal definition of marriage, however, remains contentious, especially in multicultural, religiously diverse and legally pluralistic states and societies where … Continue reading Marriage as Children’s Play: Unregistered Islamic Marriages under English Law
