While Ahmed’s descriptive claim is a compelling deconstructive critique of Islamic law, I think hacking will become an untenable tool for effecting legal change once it becomes an intentional exercise.
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Crossing and conversion
Crossing legal and religious borders in Morocco
April 30, 2018
By using the records of Islamic legal institutions to do Jewish history, we gain insight into how Jews lived their lives across legal lines.
April 30, 2018
Sharia Compliant
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
April 24, 2018
Ahmed situates hacking as faithful work for the Muslim, and also as deeply anchored in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the…
April 24, 2018
Crossing and conversion
Not in the body
April 23, 2018
Does circumcision mark religious belonging onto a male body? And if so, is this marking legitimate, especially in the case of young boys?
April 23, 2018
Crossing and conversion
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
April 23, 2018
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the question of belief or sincerity alone. Instead, conversions reflect protracted controversies over…
April 23, 2018
off the cuff
Digital projects in the classroom
April 18, 2018
In this “off the cuff” discussion, we focus particularly on digital resources and their relationship to pedagogy. We invited contributors to provide a brief response describing a digital project they created or…
April 18, 2018
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