Articles

This dissertation is a bio-bibliographical study of Twelver Shīʿism in southern Iraq in the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries, a period that has been called the....

This paper examines the new diasporic jurisprudence that has emerged within Shi'i juridical circles. Shi'i jurists (maraji‘) have responded to the needs of Shi‘i communities that live as minorities in the West by...

This essay focuses on recent divorce reforms in Egypt (2000) and Morocco (2004), with equal attention to the positions of men and women who end their marriages...

Little research has been done on Western women who convert to Shi‘i Islam. To fill this gap, this study was conducted on American and Canadian women who have converted to....

In this article, the writer examines how Muslim women who are religiously-married in Germany might initiate no-fault divorce in the absence of a German registered civil marriage...

The essay provides a general account of some of the main changes that Islamic law has undergone since the late 19th century: the transformation of Islamic law from a jurists’ law to a...

Wahhabis are not considered to be part of the four major madhāhib due to the great contrast between their approach in methodology and the methodologies of the Hanbalis and other madhāhib...

The dissertation is based on eighteen months of fieldwork that the writer conducted in four types of Muslim family law institutions: sharia courts (dar ul qaza institutions), women's arbitration centers (mahila panchayats), a mufti's authoritative legal advice (fatawa), and a...

This paper examines the contributions of the Ḥanafī jurist al-Sarakhsī (d. 483 AH/1090-91 CE) to the development of the Islamic tradition of war. By examining al-Sarakhsī’s treatment of the use of force by both state and non-state actors in...

The authority of the Imam – an absent authority – is a governance of souls, even of their governmentality but not a government of power politics. At least that kingdom is deferred to the parousia of the Imam when he...