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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

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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…

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…

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