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Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars

January 4, 2015

That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …

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Megan H. Reid on the Nature of the Academy in Medieval Islam

October 10, 2014

‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …

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Anatol Lieven on Justice in Pakistan

December 22, 2013

The Police “The problems affecting the police and the official judicial system in Pakistan are so many and so great …

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Excerpt by Wael B. Hallaq on ‘Women and divorce in pre-Modern Islam’

November 24, 2013

A longish excerpt but interesting none the less. ‘Much litigation about property related to lapsed divorce payments and inheritance settlements. …

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Faheem A. Hussain

Faheem A. Hussain

Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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