Hossein Kamaly details the biographies of some of the most illuminary Muslim women in Islamic history in A History of Islam in 21 Women (One World Publications). Georgetown University Qatar … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Leor Halevi's Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida 1865-1935, Columbia University Press 2019, wins the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize. In "Ideology, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
In "Polymorphous Discrimination: Rohingya Women in the Goggles of Intersectionality," Islamic Law and the Muslim World eJournal, Shadrack Bentil and Edmund Poku Adu analyze the plight of Rohingya women in the Rakhine … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Elizabeth Urban explores the ways in which new Muslims of slave origins were integrated into early Islamic society in "Conquered Populations in Early Islam; Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
In "A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India," The University of Washington Press, Jeffrey A. Redding explores India’s non-state system of Muslim dispute resolution—known as the dar-ul-qaza … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
In "The Speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 7th March 1971: A Historical Analysis," Islamic Law and the Muslim World eJournal (originally published in the Journal of Social and … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Ana Echevarría captures changes in the field around local understandings of Mudejar as a specific Iberian category to a more comprehensive approach as one of many Muslim minorities in the … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Shamshad Pasarlay discusses the Afghan Shīʿī communities’ position on the idea of constitutionalism and their vision for a modern constitutional state in "Shīʿī Constitutionalism in Afghanistan: A Tale of Two … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Sohaira Siddiqui explores how scholars grappled with questions of human reason and knowledge, challenging dominant ideas of Shari'a in "Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni," … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
In "Blasphemy Law and Its Interpretation a Pakistan’s Perspective," Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal, (originally published in Al Tafseer), Ataullah Khan Mahmood and Ijaz Ali Chishti … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
