ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Among the people from whom US Senator Bob Menendez is alleged to have taken luxury gifts is "Wael Hana, the head of IS EG Halal … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In response to the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade, some Muslim American lawyers have argued that restrictive abortion laws infringe on Muslims' religious … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
This Ramadan, because the duration of the fast varies from city to city based on dawn-to-dust time, the Russian city of Murmansk has the longest fasting time - a total … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Islam and Data Science Roundup
In "Distribution of Inheritance under Islamic Law: An Appraisal of Online Inheritance Calculators" (August 16, 2020 (SSRN)), Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema (Punjab University, Law College) investigates the accuracy and efficiency of … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup
On the Disinheritance of Women
By Yossef Rapoport In his introduction to his influential and widely-cited survey on tribal law in the Arab world, Frank Stewart posits that weak pre-modern Muslim states were unable to … Continue reading On the Disinheritance of Women
Molla Sali v. Greece and Undermining the Autonomy of Greece’s Muslims in Thrace: Equality versus Community
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) in its recent Molla Sali v. Greece decision (Dec. 19, 2018) radically undermined the right of Greece’s Thrace Muslim community to preserve its … Continue reading Molla Sali v. Greece and Undermining the Autonomy of Greece’s Muslims in Thrace: Equality versus Community
Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on the Legal Hermeneutics of al-Shāfi‘ī and Ibn Qutayba
By Cem Tecimer Abstract: Joseph Lowry on the Legal Hermeneutics of Two Early Islamic Scholars: In this article, Lowry responds to Calder’s assertion that Shāfi‘ī’s Risāla was written around the … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on the Legal Hermeneutics of al-Shāfi‘ī and Ibn Qutayba
Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on Reading the Qur’an as a Law Book
By Cem Tecimer Abstract: Joseph Lowry questions whether the Qurʾān can be Read as a Law Book. Lowry argues that the Qur’ān is a text full of literary references, often … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on Reading the Qur’an as a Law Book