Rumee Ahmed (PhD, University of Virginia) is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and associate professor of Islamic law at the University of British Columbia. His writing and research spans religion, law, theology, philosophy, and hermeneutics. He is the author of Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Sharia Compliant: A User’s Guide to Hacking Islamic Law (Stanford University Press, 2018), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Objectives of Islamic Law (Lexington, 2018).