By Haroun Rahimi Are the Taliban modern? The answer to this question depends on what we mean by “modernity” and how we define the Taliban, neither of which is easy … Continue reading Islamic Law, the Taliban, and the Modern State
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS While attention has been paid to Iran's morality police due to the recent protests there, scholars have also written about how the institution of the … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
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
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Qāḍī Petition from the Medieval Fayyūm" (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022)), Lev Weitz … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Litigious Zeal" (Inquest, November 22, 2022), SpearIt (University of Pittsburgh) explores how Muslim prisoners in the United States "sue religiously" and argues that Muslim … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "A Saudi national has been sentenced to death for smuggling banned amphetamine tablets near the country's northern border with Jordan, the Saudi Press Agency reported … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts" (Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, September 26, 2022), Garrett Davidson (The College of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Intisar Rabb & Umut Özsu What do we know about the history of international law in the Islamic world? We asked a select group of historians and legal scholars … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: History of Islamic International Law
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Islam and Business Ethics" (Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics (forthcoming)) AK Aldohni (University of New Castle (Australia)) "explores some of the key Islamic … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In reportedly the first case in which a New Zealand court was asked to consider Islamic law, a Wellington court ordered "the payment of a … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
