fiqh Archives - Maydan

[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…

Covid-19’s Impact on American Muslims: Notes from Ramadan 2020

By Mucahit Bilici // July 2, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has been disruptive to all religious communities in the US, including American Muslims. What happens to the rituals of religion—Durkheim’s “eminently social phenomenon”—when the social is withdrawn from them? Believers find themselves…

A Place for Marxism in Traditionalist Fiqh: Engaging the Indonesian Thinker Muhammad Al-Fayyadl

By Sawyer Martin French // May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

In Indonesia, like elsewhere, Islam and Marxism have an historical relationship largely characterized by opposition. Notably, there was an historical moment during the late colonial and early independence eras when a tradition of Islamic communism…