From the start, this project was both exhilarating and humbling because the co-constitutive dynamics of law, religion, politics, and society…
Constituting Religion—A reply
Malaysia
The market in the gift
What is charity today? How do new charitable initiatives recast the classic opposition between economies organized around markets and those…
The religion trap
There is a trap in the study of religion and politics. All traditions are equally susceptible to it, but as…
Constituting religion, contesting constitutional identity
It is a truth universally acknowledged that religion, in the possession of man, causes division, conflict, and even war. Well,…
Conversion and demographic anxieties
For readers interested in Islamic law and society, and especially for those who might not have thought that Malaysia is…
Constituting religion: From South Asia to Malaysia
At the start of his outstanding new book, Constituting Religion, Tamir Moustafa explains that initially his ambition extended beyond Malaysia…
Mansplaining religion
While the hot cases [in Malaysia] differ in their details from those in the United States, the structure of the…
Deepening the “zero-sum binary”
Via Islamic finance, “rites” have increased their power over “rights” in Malaysia.
Liberal rights and religious rites
While Constituting Religion provides a detailed case study of Malaysia, the argument Moustafa develops has important implications for much of…