Governing & Policy

These studies by Wael Hallaq represent an important contribution to our understanding of the neglected field of medieval Islamic law and legal thought. Spanning the period from the 8th to the...

This paper seeks to demonstrate that the dynamic reconstruction process of Muslim identity in Britain has remarkable reflections in the socio-legal sphere since law is a socio-cultural construct...

Foreign ministers from Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) have launched a campaign to mobilize international support for action against Myanmar over the Rohingya refugee crisis...

This book argues that Muslims recreate, reconstruct, redefine and restructure their Muslim laws as unofficial laws even within a secular or modern framework and thus undermine and obstruct, in various ways, the claim of official law to...

Although this sentiment dominates the current digital landscape, information about Islamic law and history often remains bound to its physical form and to the price of acquiring it...

This Article explores an area of close parallel between legal doctrines in the contexts of Islamic law and American legal theory...

The fourteen studies included in this volume, at a basic level, aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of..

Iraq's top Shiite cleric, ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, has warned that "foreign influence" in the upcoming national elections could undermine the country's ability to carry out a free and fair vote...

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayyeb asserted the necessity of the Islamic world’s unity, “to remove all the obstacles and thorns that are sown from east and west,” in his speech during the opening session of the high-level consultative meeting of...

This study examines the intra-Salafī disputes in the 1990s over the legitimacy of present-day rulers in the Muslim world and their status as Muslims...