Occasional Papers
The Occasional Papers Series provides a forum to deepen and amplify excellent scholarship in Islamic legal studies. The series seeks to promote discussion about Islamic law scholarship in the twenty-first century, with contributions from authors who comment on contemporary debates, historical trends, and policy aspects of Islamic law. The series is peer reviewed and open access; it is available for download free of charge.
Current Papers (PIL)
- Will Smiley, The Other Muslim Bans: State Legislation Against “Islamic Law” (January 2019)
- Nathan Brown, Comparing the Religion-State Divide in the Arab World: Constitutions (April 2017)
Previous Papers (ILSP)🛈
- Kilian Bälz, Sharia Risk: How Islamic Finance Has Transformed Islamic Contract Law (September 2008)
- Nimrod Hurvitz, Competing Texts: The Relationship Between al-Mawardi’s and Abu Ya`la’s al-Ahkam al-sultaniyya (October 2007)
- Hisako Nakamura, Conditional Divorce in Indonesia (July 2006)
- Mitsuo Nakamura, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Observations on the 2004 General and Presidential Elections (December 2005)
- Wilfried Buchta, Taking Stock of a Quarter Century of the Islamic Republic of Iran (June 2005)
- Jeanette Wakin, Remembering Joseph Schacht (1902-1969) (January 2003)
- Nawaf Salam, Civil Society in the Arab World: The Historical and Political Dimensions (October 2002)
- Parvez Hassan and Azim Azfar, Moving Toward an Islamic Financial Regime in Pakistan (September 2001)
- David S. Pearl, Islamic Family Law and Its Reception by the Courts in England (May 2000)