Tag Archives: Islamic Law

Dr Keshavjee's exploration of the use of alternative dispute resolution services by a Muslim community in the London area is a...

A common misconception in contemporary society is that Islamic laws are at odds with the laws of the land. Indeed, the very notion that Islam advocates compliance with a country’s laws is enough to invoke a most audible harrumph among...

Written from an ethnographic perspective, the book, Applied Family Law in Islamic Courts: Shari’a Courts in Gaza, investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in...

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Humboldt University of Berlin, invites applications for a Full Professorship “Islamic Law in the Past and Present.”...

This book proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and..

This booklet describes the Islamic laws related to the will (al-wasiyyah), which are among the most important issues that Muslims must understand and implement, because they are...

A district in Indonesia’s deeply Islamic Aceh province has banned men and women from dining together unless they are married or related, according to an official who said it would...

The full-time posts are available on a fixed term basis from 1st April 2019 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for a period of 2 years in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, College of...

Human cloning is of the issues that have recently come to the fore. As examining an issue in jurisprudence is impossible before shading light on its all corners, exploring its inner and outer aspects, and defining its good and bad consequences; the religious researchers and...

Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on its utility. In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate …