Thank you, Ovamir Anjum, for joining us as guest blog editor in January. In case you missed his essays, here they are: The Endangered Sharīʿa The Shape of Islamic History … Continue reading Thank you, Ovamir Anjum!
Thank you, Ovamir Anjum!
Against Impossibility
By Ovamir Anjum The conviction that the sharīʿa has been slain by modernity could be read as the resuscitation of the early classical debate on the sharīʿa’s fatigue. Yet it … Continue reading Against Impossibility
Resuscitating the Sharīʿa in South Asia
By Ovamir Anjum “The divine laws primarily and essentially consider [human] conventions [rusūm], and they are what is discussed and referred to in the heavenly injunctions. There are causes due … Continue reading Resuscitating the Sharīʿa in South Asia
The Shape of Islamic History
By Ovamir Anjum How should one imagine the shape of Islamic history? What bearing does that have on the shape of Islam’s future? The West thought the future was Star … Continue reading The Shape of Islamic History
The Endangered Sharīʿa
By Ovamir Anjum Murder is afoot, and modernity stands accused. The victim is the Sharīʿa, and the autopsy is grim: temporal lacerations, institutional mutilations, a missing heart. Not merely a … Continue reading The Endangered Sharīʿa
Welcome to our January Guest Blogger: Ovamir Anjum
Ovamir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Toledo. He is the author of Politics, … Continue reading Welcome to our January Guest Blogger: Ovamir Anjum
Thank you, Yavuz Aykan!
Thank you, Yavuz Aykan, for joining us as guest blog editor in December. In case you missed his essays, here they are: Introduction: On the Authority of the Qāḍī’s Judgment … Continue reading Thank you, Yavuz Aykan!
Madhhab as Law
By Yavuz Aykan This is the fourth essay in a series of four essays on "Why the Ottoman fiqh? Reading Ḥanafī jurisprudence in its historical longue durée." In my previous essay, I have … Continue reading Madhhab as Law
Modest Yet Crucial: The Work of a Provincial Muftī
By Yavuz Aykan This is the third essay in a series of four essays on "Why the Ottoman fiqh? Reading Ḥanafī jurisprudence in its historical longue durée." In my second essay, I described … Continue reading Modest Yet Crucial: The Work of a Provincial Muftī
The Madhhab Administration in Kurdistan and the Banal Affair of a Kurdish Tribe
By Yavuz Aykan This is the second essay in a series of four essays on "Why the Ottoman fiqh? Reading Ḥanafī jurisprudence in its historical longue durée." Before revisiting the legal drama of … Continue reading The Madhhab Administration in Kurdistan and the Banal Affair of a Kurdish Tribe