In The New York Times, Eliyahu Stern, assistant professor of Religious Studies and History at Yale, argues that current efforts…
Arguing against anti-Shari‘a legislation
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Banning Shari‘a
Ten years after 9/11, Americans cope with insecurity in their day-to-day welfare at home, while contending with continued warnings of…
The politics of inaccuracy and a case for “Islamic law”
Since the process of understanding divine law is not a uniform or singular one, there are multiple interpretations of what…
Sea burial of Osama bin Laden prompts criticism from scholars, clerics
The Guardian reports that some Islamic scholars and clerics are claiming that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was in…
Shari’a, Family, and Democracy
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, M. Christian Green, and John Witte, Jr., principal investigators of an SSRC-funded project "Shari'a, Family, and Democracy…
“Serving Two Masters”? Not in Oklahoma…
Last week, Stanley Fish contemplated the compatibility of religious and constitutional law in the secular state, ultimately offering a short…
Muffling the conflict
Stanley Fish on John Milbank's contribution to “Shari’a in the West”.
“Niqabitches” take on Paris
French students protest burka ban by hiding face, showing legs.
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
At the end of our last post (an extension of our discussions at the IWM Summer School in Cortona), we…
The UK’s first “anti-terror” summer camp
Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri has founded the United Kingdom's first anti-terrorism camp, reports Dominic Casciani for the BBC.