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Volume 52024

Number 1 (Volume 5 Spring 2024) 1-10

Essays

Mohammed Allehbi

Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue:

Reevaluating the Norms of Law and Governance in Islamic Legal History

Nihat Celik

The Ottomans and International Law:

The Russian Annexation of the Crimean Khanate in 1783 in the Light of the Documents from the Ottoman Archives

Melike Batgiray Abboud

Between Code and Custom:

Middlemen as Agents of Legal Transformation in Early Anglo-Egyptian Colonial Sudan

Omar Gebril

Recasting al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿiyya in 1920s Egypt:

Formulating a Theory of an Islamic Modern State

Ovamir Anjum

Conjuring Sovereignty:

How the “Constitution” of Medina became an Oracle of Modern Statehood

Foreword

Fatma Gül Karagöz

Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States

Symposium

Fatma Gül Karagöz

When Ottoman Land Law became Greek Law

The case of a land sale in Attica

Jelena Radovanović

Legal Translation between Empires

The Case of Çiftlik in Serbia

Milena B. Methodieva

The Ottoman Land Code in Bulgaria

Selective Interpretations

Philippe Gelez

Adaptation of the 1858 Ottoman Land Code in Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian Rule (1878-1918)

Volume 42023

Number 1 (Volume 4, Spring 2023) 11-23

Essays

Dilyara Agisheva

Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue

Scholarly Debates: Moving Past Structural Death

Brian Wright

Debating Sharīʿa in Egypt’s National Courts

Ninja Bumann

Forging a Habsburg Islamic Legal System

Legal Transformation and Local Agency in Habsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878-1918)

Rozaliya Garipova

“Emancipating” Muslim Women in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia

Ākhūnd Fathullah bin Huseyn al-Uriwi, Ḥanafī Law, and Muslim Women’s Rights

Symposium

Intisar Rabb , Umut Özsu

Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law

Introduction

Cem Tecimer

A Summary of “Ottoman Empire and Eurocentric Law of Nations”

Suleiman A. Mourad

A Summary of “War and Peace in the Medieval Islamic World, 622–1453”

Adnan Zulfiqar

A Summary of “Territory and Jurisdiction”

Mohammad Fadel

A Summary of “An Overview of Islamic International Law”

Hadi Qazwini

A Summary of “Markets and the Making of the Islamic World”

Rami Koujah

A Summary of “Dispute Settlement in the Medieval Islamic World”

Hadi Qazwini

A Summary of “Ottoman Empire: War and Peace”

Rami Koujah

A Summary of “Diplomacy in the Medieval Islamic World”

Volume 32022

Number 1 (Volume 3, Spring 2022) 24-34

Essays

Hedayat Heikal

Editor’s Introduction

Adnan A. Zulfiqar

The Immorality of Incarceration

Between Jāvēd Aḥmad Ghāmidī and Angela Y. Davis

SpearIt .

Muslims in American Prisons

Advancing the Rule of Law through Litigation Praxis

Zahra Azhar , Seyed Masoud Noori

Shīʿī Ideas of Slavery

A Study of Iran in the Qājar Era Before and After the Constitutional Revolution

Symposium

Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

A Summary of “Genre as a Tool for Understanding Islamic Law”

Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

A Summary of “Creativity in Continuity: al-rasā’il al-fiqhīyya as a Genre for Legal Change”

Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

A Summary of “Genre as a Tool for Understanding Islamic Law”

Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

A Summary of “Form, Function, and Historical Development of Uṣūl al-Fiqh as a Genre”

Omar Khale Abdel-Ghaffar

A Summary of “Form, Function, and Historical Development of Genres of Juristic Dialectic (ʿIlm al-Jadal wal-Khilāf)”

Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

A Summary of “Form, Function, and Historical Development of Ikhtilāf al-Fuqahāʾ as a Genre”

Omar Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

A Summary of “Ṭabaqāt al-Fuqahāʾ: What is a Genre?”

Volume 22021

Number 1 (Volume 2, Spring 2021) 35-51

Articles

Sohaira Z Siddiqui

Triple Divorce and the Political Context of Islamic Law in India

Tobias Scheunchen

Lost in Translation

Mahr-Agreements, US Courts, and the Predicament of Muslim Women

Case Briefs

Thomas Francis

Her Majesty's Attorney General - v - Akhter & Ors.

Islamic Marriage and Divorce in English Law

Student Notes

Cem Tecimer

Recent Case: The Turkish Decision on Hagia Sophia

Ari Schriber

Precedent for the Unprecedented

Historical Reflections on Plague, Quarantine, and Islamic Law in Morocco

Limeng Sun

China – Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Regulation on De-Radicalization

On 新疆维吾尔自治区去极端化条例, promulgated by the Standing Comm. People’s Cong. of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, Mar. 29, 2017, effective Apr. 1, 2017.

Symposium

Intisar Rabb

Methods and Meaning in Islamic Law

Introduction

Maribel Fierro

Why and What Did Legal Scholars Write in Medieval Islamic Societies?

The Case of al-Andalus

Marina Rustow

New Approaches to Islamic Law and the Documentary Record before 1500

Unsolved Problems and Untried Solutions

Ersilia Francesca

Tracing the History of Ibāḍī Law and Jurisprudence

A State of Art

Najam Haider

Future Avenues in the Study of Islamic Law

Marion Katz

The Neglected History of Furū’ and the Premodern/Modern Binary

Haider A. Hamoudi

Islamic Law from the Internal Point of View

Joseph Lowry

What is Islamic Law? How Should We Study It?

Boğaç A. Ergene , Metin M. Coşgel

Quantitative Approaches to Ottoman Fatwā Collections

Hiroyuki Yanagihashi

A Note on the Quantitative Analysis of Hadith

Intisar Rabb

Islamic Legal Canons as Memes

Volume 12020

Number 1 (Spring) 52-60

Articles

Will Smiley

Other Muslim Bans

State Legislation Against “Islamic Law”

Waheeda Amien

Judicial Intervention in Facilitating Legal Recognition (and Regulation) of Muslim Family Law in Muslim-Minority Countries

The Case of South Africa

Maurits Berger

Last Sharīʿa Court in Europe

On Molla Sali v. Greece (ECHR 2018)

Student Notes

Marzieh Tofighi Darian

Case Brief :: European Court of Human Rights Rules Against Forcing Greek Muslim Minority to Follow Islamic Law

Molla Sali v. Greece (ECHR 2018)

Dixie Morrison

Shamim Ara v. State of U.P. & Anr (Supreme Court of India 2002) and the “Judicialization” of Divorce

On Shamim Ara v. State of U.P. & Anr (Supreme Court of India 2002)

Foreword

Intisar Rabb

Foreword to the Symposium on Brunei’s New Islamic Criminal Code

The Codification of Islamic Criminal Law

Symposium

Mansurah Izzul Mohamed

Understanding the Situation on the Ground

Symposium on Brunei’s New Islamic Criminal Law Code

Dominik M. Müller

Brunei’s Sharia Penal Code Order: Punitive Turn or the Art of Non-Punishment?

Symposium on Brunei’s New Islamic Criminal Law Code

Adnan Zulfiqar

Pursuing Over-Criminalization at the Expense of Islamic Law

Symposium on Brunei’s New Islamic Criminal Law Code

Volume 5 Spring 2024

5 | 1

Volume 4, Spring 2023

4 | 1

Volume 3, Spring 2022

3 | 1

Volume 2, Spring 2021

2 | 1

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