Summarized by Rami Koujah This post is part of the Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law. It is a summary of Malika Dekkiche's contribution titled "Diplomacy in the … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: History of Islamic International Law: “Diplomacy in the Medieval Islamic World” by Malika Dekkiche
By Rami Koujah This post is part of a series of posts on the latest publication in our Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Hossein Modarressi’s Text and Interpretation: Imam Jaʿfar … Continue reading 16 Reasons Why: Forgery and the Household of the Prophet
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) by Ahmed Rashid investigates the origins and development of the Taliban movement … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Junaid Quadri* How precisely to understand the ethical material found within works of fiqh has been a recurrent question of Western scholarship on Islamic law since its earliest period. … Continue reading Ethical Perfectionism in Fiqh: The Example of Moral Exemplars
In "Innovation, Influence, and Borrowing in Mamluk-Era Legal Maxim Collections: The Case of Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and al-Qarāfī" (Journal of the American Oriental Society 140, no. 4 (October-December 2020)), Mariam … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Cem Tecimer Abstract: Joseph Lowry elaborates on the prophetic authority of Muhammad as a lawgiver. While the Qur’ān remains the undisputed ultimate source for Muslims, Lowry draws attention to … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Joseph Lowry on the Prophet as Lawgiver and Legal Authority
By Alicia Daniel Citation: Sherman A. Jackson, Kramer versus Kramer in a Tenth/Sixteenth Century Egyptian Court: Post-Formative Jurisprudence between Exigency and Law, Islamic Law and Society 8, no. 1 (2001): … Continue reading Islamic Law Lexicon :: Sunna: Reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s and other Leading Islamic Authorities’ Normative Example
Before Khizr Khan graduated with an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1986, he published an article in the Houston Journal of International Law. Entitled “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law,” … Continue reading Summary of Khizr Khan’s “Juristic Classification of Islamic Law”
