2014–2015

Dörthe Engelcke (Germany)
PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
Topic: Family Law Reform Processes in Morocco and Jordan: Legal and Societal Change and Continuity in Authoritarian Monarchies

2013–2014

Fachrizal Halim (Canada / Indonesia)
Fall 2013
PhD, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada
Research Topic: The Digital Madhhab: Reformulation of Islamic Legal Authority in the New Media

Shariq Nisar (India)
Director, Research and Operations, Taqwaa Advisory and Shariah Investment Solutions
Research Topic: Application and Accommodation of Sharīʿa Financial Concepts in Secular Jurisdictions

Tahsin Özcan (Turkey)
Professor of Islamic History, Head of Turkish History Branch, Marmara University, Theology Faculty, Islamic History Department
Research Topic: Waqf and Civil Society: Management of Foundations from the Ottomans to the Republic of Turkey

Lu’ayy Minwer Al Rimawi (United Kingdom)
Spring 2014
Director of Studies, Doctoral Programme, London School of Commerce; Co-Director, MA Programme in Islamic Financial & Business Law, BPP University
Research Topic: Comparative Aspects of Prospectus Liability under Islamic General Law in Arab Countries (Sharīʿa), the United Kingdom, and the United States

Ayman Shabana (Qatar / United States)
Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Services in Qatar, Georgetown University
Research Topic: Paternity Regulations between Islamic Law and Bioethics

Serena Tolino (Italy / Switzerland)
Fall 2013
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Topic: Eunuchs in Medieval Islamic Law: Discourses on the Gender of Castrated Men

2012–2013

Olgun Akbulut (Turkey)
Assistant Professor and Associate Dean, Kadir Has University
Research Topic: The Harmonization of Islamic Religious Rights with Secular Laws: What Does the Turkish Model Provide?

Guy Burak (Israel)
Fall 2012
Post-doctoral Scholar, Ph.D. New York University
Research Topic: Towards a Connected Legal History: A Comparative Study of the Ottoman, Uzbek, and Mughal Legal Systems

Mohd Na’im Mokhtar (Malaysia)
Spring 2013
Director, Family Support Division, Department of Syariah Judiciary
Topic: Enforcement and Execution of Maintenance Order by the Syariah Court of Malaysia: Issues of Separation of Power and Conflict of Interest

Roy Mottahedeh (United States)
July 2012–June 2013, Affiliate in Research
Gurney Professor of History, Harvard University

Huma Sodher (Pakistan / United Kingdom)
PhD Candidate, Bangor University
Topic: Post-Financial Crisis Legal and Regulatory Trends: Implications on Islamic Banking Laws and Regulations

Ayang Utriza (France / Indonesia)
Spring 2013
PhD Candidate, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Research Topic: The Register of the Qāḍī Court of the Sultanate of Banten, 1754–56: Philological, Historical, and Legal Studies on the Archive of Kiyahi Peqih Najamuddin

Maaike Voorhoeve (Netherlands)
Researcher, Law Faculty, University of Amsterdam
Research Topic: The Sharia in the Constitution of Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Walter Young (Canada)
Spring 2013
PhD, McGill University
Topic: The Dialectical Forge: On the Formative Dynamic of Jadal in Islamic Law

Luqman Zakariyah (Nigeria / United Kingdom)
Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Muslims, Al-Maktoum College (Nigeria); Honorary Teaching Fellow, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)
Research Topic: Legal and Moral Questions in Contemporary Islamic Commercial Transactions: Comparative Analyses between Malaysia and the United Kingdom

2011–2012

Ismail Cebeci (Turkey)
Spring 2012
Researcher, Oxford Center for Islamic Studies
Research Topic: Producing New Contract Types: A Viable Solution for Modern Islamic Finance?

Yoram Meital (Israel)
Associate Professor of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University; Chairman, Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy
Research Topic: Tales of Courts and Jails: The Construction of Hegemony and Resistance in Republican Egypt

Qudsia Mirza (United Kingdom)
Spring 2012
Independent Scholar
Research Topic: Interrogating Islamic Equality

Tamir Moustafa (Canada)
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University School for International Studies
Research Topic: Islamic Law and Women’s Rights

Umar Oseni (Malaysia / Nigeria)
Post-doctoral Scholar and Lecturer, International Islamic University Malaysia
Research Topic: Dispute Resolution in Islamic Banking and Finance: Current Trends and Future Perspectives

Aron Zysow (United States)
Fall 2011
Independent Scholar
Topic: Itjihād: Its Nature and Function

2010–2011

Sanaz Alasti (Iran / United States)
Spring 2011
Post-doctoral Scholar, Golden Gate University School of Law
Research Topic: What Is Wrong with Capital Punishment: Contemporary Practice of the Death Penalty in Islamic Countries and the United States?

Abdurrahman Atcil (Turkey)
Fall 2010
Post-doctoral Scholar, PhD University of Chicago
Research Topic: Sultan, Bureaucracy, and Law in the Early Modem Ottoman Empire 1450–1600

James Baldwin (United Kingdom / United States)
Fall 2011
Post-doctoral Scholar, PhD New York University
Research Topic: Law and Political Struggle in Ottoman Cairo

Kambiz Behi (Iran/United States)
Spring 2011
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University
Topic: Islamic Constitutionalism

Erol Ozvar (Turkey)
Associate Professor, Marmara University
Topic: Loan Contracts in the Late Sixteenth-Century Bursa

Omri Paz (Israel)
Post-doctoral Scholar, Ph.D. Tel Aviv University
Research Topic: In a “Nanny State” of Mind: 19th-Century Criminal Procedure, Welfare Policy, and Ottoman Modernity

Maliheh Zare (Iran)
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tehran
Research Topic: Islamic Capital Markets: A Challenge of Fundamental Rules in the Modern Era

2009–2010

Guy Bechor (Israel)
Fall 2009
Lauder School of Government, Strategy and Diplomacy, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
Research Topic: The Courtroom Oath as a Legal Battlefield

Marie-Claire Foblets (Belgium)
Fall 2009
Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Law
Research Topic: Cultural Diversity and Legal Practice: Islamic Practices and Civil Law in Europe

Havva Guney-Ruebenacker (Turkey / United States)
September 2009 – June 2011
S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
Research Topic: Towards Islamic Legal Reform: A Study of Islamic Family Law as a Part of Property, Slavery, and Jihād Law and a Proposal for its Modernization

Iza Hussin (United States)
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Research Topic: Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Negotiated Muslim State

Hauwa Ibrahim (Italy / Nigeria)
Independent Scholar
Research Topic: Humanizing Sharī’a – A Memoir on the Human Face of a Legal Practice

Eugenia Kermeli (Turkey)
Spring 2010
Lecturer in History, Bilkent University
Research Topic: Custom in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Society

Gideon Libson (Israel)    
Professor, Hebrew University Law School, Jerusalem
Topic: Maimonides’ Halakhic Writing against the Background of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence of the Period

Intisar Rabb (United States)
July 2009 – June 2012, Affiliate in Research
Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Research Topics: Comparative Law and Legal History; Law of the Middle East and the Muslim World; The Internal Critique: Change in Contemporary Islamic Criminal Law

Leonard Wood (United States)
PhD Candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Research Topic: The Reception of European Law, Origins of Islamic Legal Revivalism, and Transformations in Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt, 1876–1960

Jiyoung Yang (South Korea)
Associate Director, Financial Supervisory Service, South Korea
Research Topic: Risk Management in Islamic Finance from the Regulatory Perspective

2008–2009

Ismail Acar (United States)
Fall 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Bard College
Research Topic: Stoning in the Islamic Tradition

Muhammad Ali Bahmaei (Iran)
Spring 2009
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran
Research Topic: International Commercial Arbitration, Dispute Settlement of Intellectual Property

Farhad (Cavard) Khosrokhavar (France)
Spring 2009
Sociologist, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
Research Topic: Islam in Europe; Iranian Society in the Islamic Republic

Asghar Schirazi (Germany / Iran)
Fall 2008
Independent Scholar, Berlin
Research Topic: Ethnic Conflict in the Islamic Republic of Iran

2007–2008

Kilian Bälz (Germany)
Spring 2008
Attorney-at-Law, Frankfurt, Germany
Research Topic: Sharīʿa Risk? How Islamic Finance Has Changed Our Understanding of Islamic Law

Murteza Bedir (Turkey)
Associate Professor of Islamic Jurisprudence, Sakarya University
Research Topic: Ḥanafī Wāqiʿāt Literature of the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries

Ahmed El Shamsy (United States)
September 2007 – June 2009
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Research Topic: From al-Shāfiʿī to Shāfiʿism: The Formation of Doctrine among Early Shāfiʿīs

Rudolph (Ruud) Peters (Netherlands)
Spring 2008
Professor of Islamic Law, University of Amsterdam
Research Topic: Sharīʿa and Colonial Public Policy: Criminal Law in British Indian and Colonial Nigeria

Himmet Taskomur (United States)
September 2007 – June 2009
PhD Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Research Topic: Religion, Law and Politics: Ḥanafism in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

2006–2007

Martin Lau (Germany/United Kingdom)
Reader, SOAS, University of London
Research Topic: Twenty Five Years of Islamic Criminal Laws in Pakistan: An Analysis

Şükrü Özen (Turkey)
Research Fellow, TDV Centre for Islamic Studies, Istanbul
Research Topic: Ijtihād in the Age of Taqlīd: The Ottoman Tobacco Debate During the 17th and 18th Centuries

Michael Winter
Spring 2007
Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies
Research Topic: The Status and Functions of Qāḍīs in Late Mamlūk and Early Ottoman Damascus

Aron Zysow (United States)
Fall 2006
Independent Scholar
Research Topic: Twelver Shīʿite Legal Theory

2005–2006

Engin Akarli (United States)
Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History and Professor of History, Brown University
Research Topic: Law in the Marketplace: Istanbul Artisans, 1730-1840

Eric Chaumont (Belgium / France)
Fall 2005
Researcher, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France
Research Topic: Shāfiʿī Jurist Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī

Bruce Rutherford (United States)
Spring 2006
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colgate University
Research Topic: Islamic Constitutionalism in Egypt

Emad al-Din Shahin
Spring 2006
Associate Professor, American University in Cairo
Research Topic: Contemporary Arab Political Thought: A Century of Debates

Aron Zysow (United States)
Fall 2005
Independent Scholar
Research Topic: Twelver Shīʿite Legal Theory

2004–2005

Dorthe Bramsen (Denmark)
Spring 2005
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Copenhagen
Research Topic: Ijtihād or Taqlīd? A Study of the Principles of Interpretation in Saudi Arabian Legal Thought

Nimrod Hurvitz (Israel)
September 2004–June 2006
Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University
Research Topic: The Ḥanbalī School in the 9th and 10th Centuries from a Social and Political Perspective

Samantha Knights (United Kingdom)
Barrister, Gray’s Inn, London
Research Topic: Islam, Religious and Cultural Diversity, and Discrimination in the European Union

Hisako Nakamura (Japan)
Professor of Anthropology, Bunkyo University
Research Topic: Religion, State, and Society in Post-Suharto Indonesia: A Study of Public Discourses on Islamic Law

Mitsuo Nakamura (Japan)
Visiting Scholar at CMES, Housed at ILSP
Professor Emeritus, Chiba University
Research Topic: Civil Society and Islam in Southeast Asia: Post-9/11 and Bali Bombings Perspectives

Sadiq Reza (United States)
Spring 2005
Associate Professor, New York Law School
Research Topic: Islam’s Fourth Amendment

2003–2004

Arif A. Jamal (Canada / United Kingdom)
PhD candidate, University College London, United Kingdom
Research Topic: A New Framework for Accommodating Religiosity and Secularism in Muslim Societies

Kristen Stilt (United States)
PhD candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Topic: Crimes and Punishments in Mamlūk Egypt

Selma Zecevic (United States)
Ph.D. candidate, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Research Topic: Women on the Margins of Legal Texts: Gender and Hermeneutics in Late Ottoman Bosnia

2002–2003

Hassan Abbas (Pakistan)
Independent Scholar
Research Topic: Interpretations of Jihād

Nicolas Hardy (France)
Ph.D. candidate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Research Topic: Legal Reasoning Used to Create Alternative Financial Instruments in Islamic Banking

Laya Joneydi (Iran)
Associate Professor of Private Law, University of Tehran
Research Topic: A Comparative Study of Commercial Arbitration in Islamic Law and Other Major Contemporary Legal Systems

Mohsen Kadivar (Iran)
Summer  2002
Professor of Philosophy, Tarbiat Modares University
Research Topic: Islamic Theology and Philosophy; Political and Legal Thought in Islam

Jeff Redding (United States)
Independent Scholar
Research Topic: The Islamization of Laws and Legal Systems Process in Pakistan

Yudian Wahyudi (Canadan / Indonesia)
[September 2002 – June 2004]
Post-doctoral Scholar, McGill University, Canada
Research Topic: The Problem of Psychologism in Qur’anic Legal Hermeneutics; Sharīʿa and State in Egypt, Morocco, and Indonesia: Intellectual Responses

2001–2002

Muhammad al-Atawneh (Israel)
Ben Gurion University, Israel
Research Topic: Fatwās and Iftāʾ in Saudi Arabia

Zoila Combalia (Spain)
Fall 2001
Professor of Law, University of Saragossa
Research Topic: Legal Pluralism

Eyyup Sait Kaya (Turkey)
Post-doctoral Fellow, Marmara University
Research Topic: Intra-Madhhabic Reasoning during the Formative Period in Ḥanafī Scholarship

2000–2001

Richard Freeland (United Kingdom)
Fall 2000
Barrister, Legal Journalist
Research Topic: The Treatment of Islamic Law in American Courts

Birgit Krawietz (Germany)
Lecturer, University of Tübingen
Research Topic: Demons (jinn) as Co-Creatures of Human Beings in Islamic Culture

Nejdet Ertug (Turkey)
Assistant Professor, Sakarya University
Research Topic: Istanbul Court Records

1999–2000

Elizabeth Sartain (United Kingdom)
Fall 1999
Associate Professor of Arabic Studies, American University Cairo
Topic: The Role of “Man-Made” Law (’urf) in Islamic Government

Abdullah S. Al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)
Legal Advisor, Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia
Research Topic: Crimes against the Environment in Islamic Jurisprudence

1998–1999

Muhammad A. Sid-Ahmad (Malaysia / Sudan)
Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia
Research Topic: Women’s Testimony in Islamic Law of Evidence: New Perspectives

Abdul Rahim al-Saati (Saudi Arabia)
November 1998–August 1999
Deputy Director, Center for Research in Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University
Research Topic: Risk Management in Islamic Financial Investment

Wan Mohd. Nazri Wan Osman (Malaysia)
Spring 1999
Senior Legal Officer, Bank Negara
Research Topic: Identifying Insurance Services Consistent with Principles of Shari’a

1997–1998

Tayeb Ahmed Dajani (Kuwait / Palestine)
Fall 1997
Head, Islamic Banking Department, National Bank of Kuwait
Research Topic: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Shari’a-Compatible Financial Instruments    

Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq (Bangladesh)
Professor, Islamic University, Bangladesh
Research Topic: Commercial Law and Contractual Relations in Muslim Bengal from 1205–1707

Aron Zysow (United States)
Independent Scholar
Research Topic: Problems in the History of Islamic Legal Theory

Gouhar Bilal (Pakistan)
May 1998 – January 1999
Faisal Bank, Ltd.
Research Topic: Islamic Tradable Instruments

1996–1997

Mehmet Akif Aydin (Turkey)
Professor, Marmara University
Research Topic: Codification of Islamic Law in the Ottoman State and its Effects on Other Muslim Countries

Dr. Ezzat Mohammed Aly El-Behiry (Egypt)
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Shari`a of Al-Azhar University
Research Topic: A Comparative Study of Islamic Law and the Principles of International Commercial Contracts in Accordance with Lex Mercatoria Rules

Fatimah Binta Iliasu (Nigeria)
Professor, Bayero University in Kano
Research Topic: The Marriage Contract in Islam

Dr. Nik Norzrul Thani bin Nik Hassan Thani (Malaysia)
Assistant Professor of Law, International Islamic University
Research Topic: The Supervision of Islamic Financial Institutions in Malaysia

Raphael Abiem (Sudan)
Spring 1997
Research Topic: Women: Barometers of Human Rights in Islam

1995–1996

Grace Samaha (Lebanon / United States)

Attorney, New York and Lebanon
Research Topic: Islamic and Arab Contract Law

Imran Nyazee (Pakistan

[February–October 1996]
Professor of Law, Faculty of Shari’ah and Law, International Islamic University
Research Topic: The Modern Corporation and Islamic Law

Hanif Al-Qassimi (U.A.E.)

Spring 1996
Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University
Research Topic: A Comparative Analysis of Islamic Law as Taught at Harvard Law School and at the United Arab Emirates University

1994–1995

Ghulam Saqlain Masoodi (India)

SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY of JAMMU

Research Topic: Jinayet (Tort) in Islamic and English Laws – Parallels and Distinctive Features

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