The Succession in Islamic Law-Conference is being organized by the Research Group “Changes in God’s Law – An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws” at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. The conference addresses the role succession law played in Muslim communities …
Read More »Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Texts, Ideas and Practices
This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national and transregional contexts. With a focus on the production and transmission of Islamic law in the Indian Ocean, the …
Read More »Korean Scholar Calls for Better Integration of Korea’s Muslims
Yi Soo-jeong's new book "Broader Perspective for Strangers" tells a story about her 2018-2019 journey of searching for mosques and Islamic centers in Korea, Muslim communities' experiences of intolerance and...
Read More »Islamic Family Arbitration, Justice and Human Rights in Britain+PDF
This paper draws upon doctrinal research to explore the rise of a new kind of faith–based, unofficial and, privatized forms of matrimonial dispute resolution process(es) emerging within Muslim communities in Britain...
Read More »Call for Papers: Leadership, Authority & Representation in British Muslim Communities
This conference explores issues of leadership within British Muslim communities. Leadership takes many forms. It includes liturgical and ritual leadership from imams (who may be paid, unpaid, or low-paid) and educational leadership from...
Read More »Conference on Future of Muslim Minorities, Specific Opportunities & Challenges Opens in UAE
The international conference on the future of Muslim minorities, specific opportunities and challenges, running May 8 - 9 in Abu Dhabi, is intended to spread the culture of peace and tolerance among religions and cultures and to protect the children of...
Read More »Women, Leadership, and Mosques +PDF
This volume investigates the diverse range of female religious leadership present in contemporary Muslim communities in South, East and Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America...
Read More »Diversities of Sharia’s Problems in Muslim Societies
These articles aim the problems and issues that currently exist in the present communities of Muslims. Introduction Muslims are approximately 25 percent of world’s population. Beside South Asia and North Africa regions that were the primary Muslim societies, Islam is followed by a wide range of people in various and …
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