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Islamic Law

The Maliki Madhhab between Traditionalism and Dalil-ization

By Alexander Thurston  //  June 1, 2022June 1, 2022

The Maliki madhhab (school, plural madhahib) is one of the four main extant schools of Sunni Islamic law. Historically, the Maliki school exercised near-hegemony in both legal thought and practice over wide swaths of northwest…

[Book Review] Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 2018) by Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim | Reviewed by Huseyin Saglam

By Huseyin Saglam  //  September 3, 2021September 7, 2021

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim’s Child Custody in Islamic Law is an important and well-researched contribution to Islamic family law in general and to changes on the concept of child custody (hidâna) from the early modern to…

Female Agency in Marriage in the Ḥanafī School of Law: Between Damascus and Transoxiana

By Nihal Ahmad Khan  //  December 9, 2019December 9, 2019

Introduction The marriage contract according to Islamic law is preceded by a khiṭbah (solicitation of marriage), is ratified at the behest of the ijāb and qubūl (the “offer” of marriage and the “acceptance” of the…

How MBS’s “Reforms” Are Impacting Saudi Scholars: Interview with Khaled Abou El Fadl

By Faisal Ali  //  April 17, 2019April 19, 2019

“My family were persecuted by Gamal Abdel Nasser” says Khaled Abou El Fadl, an American lawyer, Muslim jurist and Professor of Islamic law at UCLA. “So, growing up, I saw first-hand the impact of political…

On the Theology of Obedience: An Analysis of Shaykh Bin Bayyah and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf’s Political Thought

By Walaa Quisay & Thomas Parker  //  January 8, 2019January 16, 2019

Introduction On December 5, 2018, the fifth annual meeting of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS) was inaugurated in Abu Dhabi. The forum was co-founded by the renowned scholar Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah…

[Conference Report] “Sharia and the Secular” | October 19-20, 2018 | University of California, Santa Barbara | by Hadi Qazwini

By Hadi Qazwini  //  December 5, 2018December 5, 2018

[Conference Report] SoCal Islamic Studies Graduate Student Consortium |“Sharia and the Secular” | October 19-20, 2018 | University of California, Santa Barbara Background, Planning, and Conference Summary With the launch of its doctoral program in Religion/Global Islam…

Redefining the “Islamic”: Insights from the Family Waqf Debates in French-Mandate Lebanon and Syria

By Nada Moumtaz  //  October 30, 2018October 30, 2018

Can giving to one’s family be an act of charity? In an age of Trumpist nepotism, this might seem like an egregious proposition. But this is the very premise of the family waqf, an Islamic…

A Cartography of Modern Muslim Theology: Mapping the Interventions and Trajectories of an Academic Muslim Theological Discourse

By Martin Nguyen  //  September 20, 2018September 21, 2018

A Cartography of Modern Muslim Theology: Mapping the Interventions and Trajectories of an Academic Muslim Theological Discourse Muslim theology is an incredibly broad and rich field of intellectual inquiry. It remains for me an area…

Scientific Literacy for Madrasa Graduates: A Project for Religious Renewal at the University of Notre Dame

By Mahan Mirza  //  September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

  The ink of scholars is holier than the blood of martyrs. -Attributed to the Prophet Muhammad Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton Peace cannot…

[Video-Lecture] Professor Yasin Dutton | The Qur’an as a Multiform Oral Text & The Utility of Early Manuscripts

By Maydan Editors  //  August 3, 2018August 6, 2018

The Maydan is proud to partner with www.islamiccourses.com to present a video-recording of Professor Yasin Dutton’s lecture titled “The Qur’an as a Multiform Oral Text & The Utility of Early Manuscripts.” The lecture was organized…

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