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Seals, Signatures and the Banner of Abbas: Formalisms of Contractual Finality
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tolerance and Multiple Marriage
Friday, March 08, 2013
Rumi, Reason and Shi'ism
Monday, March 04, 2013
Qaradawi on Economics and Politics
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Great New Book on Islamic Law in the Mamluk Era by Kristen Stilt
Friday, December 21, 2012
A Problem of Overselling: Realistic Expectations and Islamic Finance
Friday, November 23, 2012
What the NFL's Replacement Referees Have to Do with Islamic Law
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Are Salafists "Literalists"?
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Enough Already. On the "Innocence of Muslims."
Thursday, September 13, 2012
More Iraq Media Bias
Monday, September 10, 2012
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Tolerance and Multiple Marriage
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12/21/2012
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Islamic Law In Our Times: Category Archive for Shari'a Blogs
Tolerance and Multiple Marriage
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Rumi, Reason and Shi'ism
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Qaradawi on Economics and Politics
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Great New Book on Islamic Law in the Mamluk Era by Kristen Stilt
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12/21/2012 2:44 PM
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A Problem of Overselling: Realistic Expectations and Islamic Finance
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11/23/2012 8:12 AM
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What the NFL's Replacement Referees Have to Do with Islamic Law
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Are Salafists "Literalists"?
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Enough Already. On the "Innocence of Muslims."
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Similar Horizons, Unified Horizons and Other Transcendental Nonsense
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8/23/2012 10:21 AM
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Malaysian Pawn Brokers and Islamic Finance
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8/13/2012 9:47 PM
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Triple Divorces and Totems in Islamic Law
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8/6/2012 7:46 PM
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Women in the Kuwaiti Parliament
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7/21/2012 9:43 AM
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Is the Shari'a Meant to Apply Only To Women?: A Look at a Kuwaiti Law
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7/19/2012 5:12 PM
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On siyasa as policy and politics
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7/17/2012 9:12 PM
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A New Arab Word for "Secular"? Understanding the "Civil State"
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7/12/2012 2:41 PM
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Subprime Mortgages and the Shari'a
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6/22/2012 3:27 PM
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The Supposed Struggle to Succeed Grand Ayatollah Sistani
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6/9/2012 1:58 PM
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Misplacing Authority: Revisiting the Dow Jones Fatwa
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5/22/2012 5:56 PM
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Facts and Abstractions
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5/18/2012 3:53 PM
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A Visit to the Suleymania Court House
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5/11/2012 9:57 AM
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What the House of Islam Might Learn From Europe
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5/2/2012 4:30 PM
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The Iraq Federal Supreme Court Avoids Interpreting Shari'a--Again
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4/24/2012 3:12 PM
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Is PM Maliki Growing Assertive Against the US: Reflections on a Recent Speech
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4/10/2012 8:51 PM
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Islamic Finance and Housing Projects in Malaysia
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4/5/2012 10:02 AM
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Shari'a, Good Governance and the Rule of Law
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4/3/2012 1:07 PM
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The Origins of Repugnancy
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3/23/2012 12:05 PM
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"Emo" Killing in the New Iraq
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3/15/2012 1:28 PM
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Islamic Art and Islamic Law
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3/8/2012 5:50 AM
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Muqtada al-Sadr and Sarah Palin
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3/5/2012 1:35 PM
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Craig Baxam, the Secret Convert
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1/30/2012 10:40 PM
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Islamists and Super-Islamists, and the Incoherence of Each of Them
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1/25/2012 6:26 PM
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Revisiting Same Sex Marriage as a Muslim Legal Realist
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1/11/2012 6:21 PM
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Why American Muslims Should Support Same Sex Marriage
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1/9/2012 7:10 PM
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Random Thoughts on Slavery and the Shari'a
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12/18/2011 9:01 PM
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Michele Bachmann's Obsessions With the Caliphate
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12/16/2011 2:27 PM
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Tim Tebow as Muslim: A Hypothetical
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12/15/2011 9:51 AM
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A Shi'i's Lament
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12/6/2011 2:44 PM
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Regulation and Risk Sharing in Islamic Finance
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11/30/2011 10:33 PM
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Interpretive Constraints and Interpretive Authorities
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11/10/2011 7:11 PM
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Islam's Capacity for Democracy: Readings from Reinhold Neibuhr
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10/7/2011 11:52 AM
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"Religion is for God, and the Nation is for All" and Islam as Ornament
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10/3/2011 8:10 PM
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"The PEOPLE Want the Fall of the Regime"
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7/26/2011 1:37 PM
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Najaf and American Academia
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7/15/2011 2:29 PM
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Hijab, Bicycles and the Need for Juristic Clarity
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7/12/2011 3:36 PM
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Hamas and Gaza
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7/11/2011 9:30 PM
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Judicial Power Rising in Kurdistan
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7/10/2011 12:12 PM
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Case Study on Why Najaf Clerics Shouldn't Do Law: Yaqubi and the Matter of Iraqi Citizenship Through Women
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7/8/2011 3:58 PM
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Islam and Homosexuality
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6/2/2011 9:41 PM
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International Criminal Justice and the Shari'a
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5/23/2011 10:00 PM
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The At Sea Burial of Osama Bin Laden: What It Means
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5/2/2011 1:41 PM
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Hamid Karzai, the Real Villain of the Qur'an Burning Episode
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4/11/2011 8:28 PM
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The Islamic Threat to Iranian Juristic Theory
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3/29/2011 7:49 PM
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Brandon Davies, Iraq and the Privatization of Islamic Law
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3/25/2011 6:15 AM
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Islamophobic Regulation
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3/23/2011 5:21 AM
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The Mostly Weird Ways of the Muslim Purists
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3/20/2011 9:39 PM
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Realism Revisited in Law and Religion Conference in Santa Clara
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2/21/2011 4:24 PM
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The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court and Islamic Law
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2/14/2011 6:07 PM
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The Enhancement of the Realist Effect in Religious Law
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12/3/2010 9:39 PM
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Sanhuri and Stipulations
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11/29/2010 10:12 AM
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Islamic Finance Artifice and Classical Islamic Law
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11/24/2010 8:20 PM
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The Oklahoma Ban on "Shari'a Law"
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11/15/2010 9:13 AM
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Islamists, Republicans and Their Striking Similarities
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11/9/2010 8:19 PM
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On Culture and CULTURE in Islamic Interpretive Process
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10/12/2010 9:26 PM
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Pastor Jones, the REAL Sideshow
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9/18/2010 8:38 PM
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The Sideshow Goes Mainstream: On Islamophobia and Mosque Building
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8/22/2010 1:25 PM
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Qualifying Realism
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6/29/2010 3:41 PM
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Cleric and Layperson in Muslim and Christian traditions
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6/10/2010 11:18 AM
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Juristic Intervention into Politics and Endorsement of the State
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6/7/2010 1:12 PM
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The Odd Characteristics of Najaf's Interventions in Politics
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5/8/2010 10:19 PM
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Polygamy in France: On Wives and Mistresses
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5/3/2010 7:05 AM
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God and Earthquakes in the Religious Traditions
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4/20/2010 8:16 PM
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Islamic Law AND Constitutional Liberty: A Conference at St. Thomas School of Law
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4/13/2010 3:35 PM
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Negligence and Jihan's Law
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4/8/2010 12:55 PM
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The Maqasid and Family Law
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2/16/2010 5:05 PM
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Institutional Failures in Islam
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2/10/2010 7:19 PM
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Environmentalism and Islam in Our Times
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1/31/2010 8:27 AM
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America's Two Muslim Communities
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1/22/2010 4:20 PM
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Worship of the same God in the Muslim and Christian paradigms
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1/12/2010 6:23 AM
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Free and Hurr: On the redefiniton of Islamic terminology
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12/29/2009 2:52 PM
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Islam and State According to the Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf.
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11/5/2009 8:39 AM
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Reexamining the Doors of Ijtihad in Najaf
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11/1/2009 4:16 AM
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Najaf Views on Sunnism and Shi'ism
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10/28/2009 1:26 PM
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Islam and democracy in Iraq: A Realist Perspective
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10/18/2009 1:09 PM
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Alcohol and the Iraq Elections: Thoughts on Religious Expertise
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10/10/2009 1:11 PM
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Reflections from Baghdad on the American Muslim Experience
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10/5/2009 1:48 PM
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Hessel Yntema and The Muezzin's Call
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9/30/2009 1:40 PM
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Is Islamic Finance a Legal Practice or a Consumer Brand? A Closer Look at the Shari'a Review Board
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9/19/2009 2:55 PM
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Venice Conference on Islamic Law
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9/19/2009 2:04 PM
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On the Nature of the Ignored Hadith and the Contingency of Muslim Legal Doctrine
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8/6/2009 2:41 AM
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Beyond Law: Understanding Additional Dimensions to the Debate over Sound Hadith
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7/19/2009 3:40 AM
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Law and Shari'a in Iran and Beyond
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7/15/2009 5:06 AM
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Women in the New Iraq
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7/10/2009 4:21 AM
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The Obama Speech and the "Muslim Perspective"
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6/17/2009 1:32 PM
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Death in the Court and the Hawza
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6/6/2009 1:22 PM
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Freedom of Religion in Iraq and the United States: An Interesting Case from Judge Sotomayor
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6/3/2009 6:02 AM
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Islam and the Environment: Realism and Rhetoric
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5/16/2009 1:19 PM
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Artifice, Islamic Banks, and the Economic Rationality of the Devout Muslim Consumer
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5/6/2009 11:19 AM
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Islamic Finance and the Economic Crisis: Facts and Fallacies
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4/28/2009 3:57 PM
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American and Muslim Perspectives on Law, Constitution and Religion
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4/17/2009 2:12 PM
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Is the Afghan Shi'a Family Law Really That Radical?: A Contrarian's View
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4/5/2009 10:14 PM
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