The new issue of the Journal of Islamic Law at Harvard Law School (Journal of Islamic Law 2, no. 1 (2021)) has been published online. The new issue includes an … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
In her book review for Reading Religion (November 19, 2020) of Tamir Moustafa’s (Simon Fraser University) Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Nurfadzilah … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Weekend Scholarship 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
Comparative Law and the Middle East at ASCL 2020! (A PIL Guide)
The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of panels from the American Society of Comparative Law's (ASCL) 2020 Annual Meeting schedule that feature speakers whose submissions are … Continue reading Comparative Law and the Middle East at ASCL 2020! (A PIL Guide)
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Katherine Lemons’s Divorcing traditions : Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019) seeks to redefine the concept of secularism as applied in India. … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
A roundup of new academic scholarship in the field of Islamic law and legal history.
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, SHARIAsource editor and scholar of Islamic legal history, discusses the history of Malay people in this podcast episode titled "Learning Malay History" (The More Better Podcast (2020)). In … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Recent Scholarship: Patriarchy and Colonialism
The latest issue of the Journal of Women's History includes the following article examining gender, race, class, and patriarchy within the British and colonial legal systems: "Class, White Women, and … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Patriarchy and Colonialism