...Youssef Belal This article is devoted to the study of questions of knowledge, law, and ethics in Islamic context. Starting with a discussion of assumptions about Islamic ethical practices in recent anthropological and historical works on the fatwa, it explores procedures of truth seeking and modes...

...Erin Stiles Law and Power in the Islamic World Sami Zubaida New York: I. B. Tauris, 2005 vii, 248 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2008 Law and Power in the Islamic World Empire and in the states...

...Michael O'Sullivan Abstract Few works in recent years have enriched the study of Islamic law quite like Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires . The book presents an opportunity to interrogate prevailing historiographical debates about...

... Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires , Faiz Ahmed shows how Afghanistan could be regarded as a pivot for Islamic intellectual currents from the late nineteenth century onward, especially between the Ottoman Empire and South Asia. Afghanistan Rising makes us aware of our own...

...Junaid Quadri Abstract Taking the complexity and diversity of Islamic law ( fiqh ) as a point of departure, this article examines a series of positions advanced by Muslim jurists on the relationship between law and astronomy. Focusing primarily on the question of the appropriateness of relying...

...Yunus Doğan Telliel Abstract This essay introduces a special section on Islam and evidence with contributions by Ana Maria Vinea, Junaid Quadri, and Yunus Doğan Telliel, and an afterword by Alireza Doostdar. The contributors examine evidential inquiries in Islamic law, healing practices...

...Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular Abstract This review essay of Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires focuses on the late imperial and the postimperial context of inter-Islamic networks. It emphasizes the Ottoman, Balkan, and Eurasian exchanges...

...Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Abstract The constitutional history thread woven through Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires unites Afghan, Indian, Ottoman, Islamic, modernist, and other strands of analysis. Hanifi's essay addresses issues...

... to Queen Victoria by a Hadhrami claiming that he and his wife had been denied their proper inheritance due to them under Islamic law. The article explores the implications of the interrelations of such legal practices in relation to conflicts over wills and dispositions of properties across diasporic space...

.... With a special focus on debates over inheritance laws, this article explores the transregional and transtemporal ways in which matrilineal Muslims defended the system within Islamic legal epistemologies and maritime social systems. References Agrama Hussein Ali . Questioning Secularism: Islam...

... and codification issues and toward the political apparatuses in which Islamic jurisprudences are embedded. Drawing on ethnographic research, Landry asks how the secular state helps construct the religious laws applied in its family courts. In pursuing this question, he shows that under current conditions, judges...

... calls for further engagement with the Islamic legal tradition in the analysis of sharia court records in order to better understand the relation between state, law, and community. Finally, it elaborates on Doumani's important contributions to the anthropology of kinship. Family Life in the Ottoman...

.... , 2 : 1081 – 84 . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . Brockopp J. E. “ Slavery in Islamic Law: An Examination of Early Maliki Jurisprudence .” PhD diss. , Yale University , 1995 . Brunschvig R. “ ‘Abd .” In Encyclopaedia of Islam , 2nd ed. , edited by Bearman P...

...Chaider S. Bamualim The article discusses a particular Islamist militant movement in Indonesia, the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, or FPI). Gaining considerable following and influence in post-Suharto Indonesia, the FPI called for the implementation of Sharia law addressing...

... responses to Wahhabis. Ultimately, colonial law's gestures not only rendered unexceptional its regimes of exception. Ironically, they also reified religion, such that Islam and violence became culturally consubstantial in colonial thought. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke...

... history, legal history, and global history. Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires . By Faiz Ahmed . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 448 pp., $51.50 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 global history...

... of mutual acculturation by which Muslims absorbed and accommodated themselves to local customs that became an inseparable part of their social and legal norms. 15 Both Muslim judicial and civil authorities not only retained these pre-Islamic customs and traditions, but also adapted and Islamicized laws...

... be generalized while retaining the rich local dimension of the work. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History . By Beshara B. Doumani . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 370 pp., $29.99 , paper Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Islamic law...

...,   dence, not Islamic law. I thereby make the distinction between Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM); and the South South East the shari’a...

... is that it is a book devoid of a historical argument regarding its major claims. Ahmed's book Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam to some extent shows the historical process by which law “came increasingly to assert its self-constituted authority to subsume Islamic discourse.” 1 In What...