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Abdulkader Thomas

After a career of more than forty years in international finance, Abdulkader Thomas has returned for his doctorate at SOAS. An established author in the field of Islamic finance, Abdulkader has engaged in the process of applying fiqh to solve contemporary financial problems. Among the key areas that he has found concerns yet to be addressed effectively is the consolidation of fiqh principles for insolvency resolution. Abdulkader’s roles combine applied research, market regulation, and financial problem solving. Abdulkader is an adjunct professor of finance at IE Business School. Abdulkader holds a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His BA is in Arabic & Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago. He is a former visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

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[Book Review] Timur Kuran, Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

By Abdulkader Thomas // June 7, 2024June 12, 2024

In Freedoms Delayed, Timur Kuran attempts to reveal how Sharī’ah affects “Patterns of civic engagement, understandings of religious liberties, distributions of political power, and relative economic capabilities…” (p . 4) Kuran, a prolific scholar whose…