This essay investigates the reasons underlying women’s increasing use of the Islamic courts by examining the attitude of Indonesian Muslim women towards divorce and divorce law as reflected in the narratives they present when petitioning for divorce in court....
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This study argues that the discourse on hudud would not be complete unless hard questions surrounding its substance and practical procedures are....
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This Article divides modern Shi'i thought into four categories and concludes as a general matter that at least three of those categories appear possibly compatible with liberalism, and a fourth almost appears to...
Read More »Groundwork of the Moral Law: A New Look at the Qurʾān and the Genesis of Sharīʿa
In this article, I propose to put into the balance the various theories (including my own) that have been advanced about the Qurʾān as a...
Read More »Prohibiting the Pilgrimage: Politics and Fiction in Mālikī Fatwās
This study inventories and analyzes Mālikī legal opinions (fatwās) discouraging or prohibiting the pilgrimage to Mecca (the ḥajj) for Muslims in the Islamic West (al-Andalus, North Africa, and West Africa) from the...
Read More »Ayatollah Khomeini, AnjumanSharieShian and Aga Syed Hassan: A Case for Shi’i Movement in Kashmir
The resistance movement of Ayatollah Khomeini is off-spring of a massive Shi’i Usuli movement after its revival in Karbala. Kashmir is associated with Sufism when it comes to...
Read More »The Salafi Mystique: The Rise of Gender Segregation in 1970s Egypt
In this article, Aaron Rock-Singer, traces the emergence of gender segregation within contemporary Salafism, focusing on Egypt as a case study to examine the interaction between textual hermeneutics, ideological cross-pollination and...
Read More »Shiʻi Treasures in North American and European Libraries
This communication, Shiʻi Treasures in North American and European Libraries: A Zaydī Multitext Manuscript from the Glaser Collection, provides an expanded description of the contents of a Yemeni codex from the...
Read More »Twelver Shia in Edinburgh: Marking Muharram, Mourning Husayn
Research on the Shia in Scotland and of their spaces of worship and gathering continues to be under represented in the research field of Muslims in Britain. According to the 2011 census, there are...
Read More »A Minority with Diversity: The Shiʿi Community in America
This article will argue that divisions within the American Shiʿi community are often exacerbated by the establishment of ethnic institutions that act as cultural buffers...
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