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Haider Ala Hamoudi
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University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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  1. Misplacing Authority: Revisiting the Dow Jones Fatwa
    Tuesday, May 22, 2012
  2. Facts and Abstractions
    Friday, May 18, 2012
  3. A Visit to the Suleymania Court House
    Friday, May 11, 2012
  4. What the House of Islam Might Learn From Europe
    Wednesday, May 02, 2012
  5. The Iraq Federal Supreme Court and "Islamic" Legislation
    Thursday, April 26, 2012
  6. The Iraq Federal Supreme Court Avoids Interpreting Shari'a--Again
    Tuesday, April 24, 2012
  7. The Early Elections Debate in Iraq
    Thursday, April 19, 2012
  8. Is PM Maliki Growing Assertive Against the US: Reflections on a Recent Speech
    Tuesday, April 10, 2012
  9. Islamic Finance and Housing Projects in Malaysia
    Thursday, April 05, 2012
  10. Shari'a, Good Governance and the Rule of Law
    Tuesday, April 03, 2012

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    3/20/2012
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    3/17/2012
  5. Haider Ala Hamoudi on Islamic Art and Islamic Law
    3/12/2012
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    3/9/2012
  7. Michael Gassner on Islamic Art and Islamic Law
    3/9/2012
  8. Z. on Muqtada al-Sadr and Sarah Palin
    3/5/2012
  9. Haider Ala Hamoudi on Tim Tebow as Muslim: A Hypothetical
    2/22/2012
  10. faraz on Child Marriage and the Shari'a
    2/16/2012

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Islamic Law In Our Times: Category Archive for Shari'a Blogs

"Bush, Bush, Listen Yay, We are with Barack Hussein" versus Obama the Apostate: Islamic Reflections on the Presidency

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 11/10/2008 7:29 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

How to Deal with Jewish Or Muslim Roots: Candidate Case Studies

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 11/3/2008 11:16 PM | Add Comment

Hamas and the Marriage of the Widows

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/31/2008 9:15 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Law and law: Negotiating the tension between God's Will and Human Reality

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/29/2008 10:24 PM | Add Comment

Eppur Si Muove: Extremist and Terrorist Cultural Exchange

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/28/2008 11:55 AM | Add Comment

Taqiya, Dissembling and Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/22/2008 9:25 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The Prohibition of Fun under the Shari'a: Salafi Ideological Fanaticism

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/19/2008 10:45 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Shari'a and the Power of Decree in the Muslim State

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/16/2008 9:21 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Does anyone appreciate the existence of non shari'a state law in Muslim countries?: A Cry of Exasperation

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/14/2008 3:31 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

(Alleged) Muslim Sacred Text on (I quote, and not for normative value) "Dogs, Asses and Women": Forcing Change in Islamic Preconceptions

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/13/2008 3:23 PM | Add Comment

Takaful and Insurance: On the meaning of "ownership"

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/10/2008 1:07 PM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

Is Islamic finance law?

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/8/2008 8:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

On the Primacy of the State in the Organization of Law in Muslim Polities

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/5/2008 12:37 PM | Add Comment

On the Limitations of Liberalism in Muslim Polities

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 10/3/2008 1:25 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Fundamental Misunderstandings of Law and Islam in Iraq

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/29/2008 8:29 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Islamic Values, Secular Values and the Muslim State: The Muslim Mosaic

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/25/2008 1:29 PM | Add Comment

The Arabs and the Sharia: Models of Governance

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/23/2008 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Arabs, Muslim and the Secular State: The Dangers of Conflation

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/21/2008 9:05 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Intra-Muslim Intolerance: Thoughts on the Sunni Shi'a Divide

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/19/2008 11:26 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Killing Satellite Providers in Islamic Law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/17/2008 9:40 PM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

Review of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/15/2008 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Sistani and Soap Operas: On Resistance and Compromise to Western Influence

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/12/2008 4:09 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Al Qaeda and Female Terrorism

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/11/2008 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Sex and the Shari'a

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/8/2008 1:39 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Some Source Material on Child Marriage and the Shari'a

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/3/2008 5:31 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

On the Mysterious Allure of the Fast

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 9/2/2008 10:02 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The Role of Islam in the Iraqi Personal Status Code: Realism in Action

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 8/27/2008 9:11 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Muslim Woman and the Veil: Thoughts on the Olympic Experience

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 8/25/2008 9:02 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Women's Rights and the Iraq Constitution

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 8/13/2008 8:11 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stupidity and the Shari'a, Part II: Muqtada al Sadr and Soccer

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 7/23/2008 12:10 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Stupidity and the Shari'a in Our Times

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 7/21/2008 4:05 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

The Shari'a and the Shi'a

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 7/16/2008 10:43 AM | Add Comment

The Economics of Terrorism

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 7/10/2008 11:24 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Shari'a and the War on Drugs: Public Interest as a Jurisprudential Tool

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 7/8/2008 9:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Lloyd Weinrib, Legal Reasoning, and Islamic Law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 7/6/2008 10:36 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Shi'i jurists and Iraq's upcoming provincial elections

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 7/5/2008 1:20 PM | Add Comment

Child Marriage and the Shari'a

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/30/2008 2:25 PM | View Comments (20) | Add Comment

On the Fall of Islamic Quietism in the Shi'i Paradigm (Part II)

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/27/2008 11:18 PM | Add Comment

On the Fall of Islamic Activism in the Shi'i Paradigm

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/25/2008 3:25 PM | Add Comment

Israel, Iraq and the Role of the Shari'a

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/23/2008 4:33 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Read this week's entries on Opinio Juris

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/17/2008 9:30 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Apostasy and Disbelief as Thought Control in the Muslim Experience

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/12/2008 9:33 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Blasphemy and the Ahmadiyya

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/10/2008 4:18 PM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

Competing Narratives among the Shi'a and the Sunni: Lessons from Gettysburg

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/9/2008 11:15 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Law and Politics in Iraq and Saudi: Non-Muslim Troops on Muslim Soil

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/6/2008 4:16 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Polygamy in the Muslim Experience: Interpretations and Attitudes

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/4/2008 1:48 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Economic Order in Iraq (Part II)

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/3/2008 9:47 AM | Add Comment

Capitalism Lives in the Anbar; On the Failures of the Islamic Economic Order

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 6/2/2008 6:48 PM | Add Comment

The Nationalization of Shi'ism and the Iraq Provincial Elections Law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/30/2008 8:18 AM | Add Comment

Human Beings and the Real Story of the Rise of the Islamic State

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/29/2008 2:35 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Terrorism, Globalization and the Defensive Jihad

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/28/2008 4:00 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

How Decisions are made in (Islamic) law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/27/2008 12:00 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Fatawa and the Realities of Islamic Law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/21/2008 11:20 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Shi'a Marginalization and the Rise of Hezbollah

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/20/2008 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Romeo and Juliet and Iraqi Women

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/19/2008 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Alms and the Sunni Shi'a Split

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/16/2008 1:35 PM | Add Comment

Evolving Definitions: On the concept of Disobedience and Women's Rights in Islam

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/14/2008 3:13 PM | Add Comment

Pepsi and Pig Intestines: Rumors and the Recreation of Islamic Law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/12/2008 5:10 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Modern Insurance and Medieval Islam

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/10/2008 9:42 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Old and New Testament, Mecca and Medina: Different Views of Religious Narrative

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/6/2008 11:20 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Shi'ism and the Rise of Salafi and Wahhabi Doctrine: Another View

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/4/2008 5:25 PM | Add Comment

The Mosque in America

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/30/2008 1:16 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Alternative Narratives in the Muslim Paradigm: Bin Laden's Caliphate Revisited

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/29/2008 11:59 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Qaradawi and the Consumption of Alcohol: Scholarly Authority and Sensible Debate

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/23/2008 4:29 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Islamic Law and Jews and Christians in Iraq

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/22/2008 9:27 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Veil on Iraqi Campus

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/21/2008 8:53 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Varieties of Muslim Experience

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/15/2008 10:48 AM | Add Comment

The Veil, from classical to modern

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/12/2008 10:55 AM | Add Comment

On the pitfalls of the Islamic democracy

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/9/2008 7:15 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

On the nature of "Islamophobia"

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/5/2008 10:58 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Four Critiques on Islamic law scholarship in law schools

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 4/3/2008 6:36 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why Teach Islamic Law? Lessons from a conference at Harvard

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/31/2008 10:17 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Danish Cartoons, Geerts' Fitna and Muslim Indifference: On a Means to Coexistence

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/28/2008 10:06 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Where's Muqtada?

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/25/2008 9:39 PM | Add Comment

Sistani and the American-Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/24/2008 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Noah Feldman and Political-Religious "Balance" in Muslim States

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/21/2008 4:23 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Islam and Hypocrisy

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/19/2008 7:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Islam and Organized Crime

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/18/2008 3:58 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Caliphate and Jihad: Myths and Realities concerning Muslim Terminology

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/10/2008 10:59 AM | Add Comment

Obama and anti-Muslim Bigtory in the Mainstream Media; On the Hypocrisy of the American Left

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/9/2008 9:47 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Ahmedinijad in Baghdad and Global Shi'ism

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/5/2008 8:29 PM | Add Comment

The Insult and the Attack: Cartoons of the Prophet and the Modern Defensive Jihad

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 3/3/2008 6:28 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

On the Fallacy of Islamic Law in Law Schools

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/29/2008 7:18 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Shi'a in the Azhar and the Arba'een in Kerbala: Muslim Paranoia and Promise of Pluralism

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/28/2008 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Al Qaeda, and the Nation State

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/24/2008 10:27 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Separation of Powers, Judicial Review, other Western notions and the Shari'a

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/23/2008 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Sadr's Mahdi Army, Hamas and the Cease Fire under the Islamic Law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/22/2008 8:11 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Charity for the Imam and Guns for Iran: Cash Collection at the Holy Sites of Kerbala

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/20/2008 10:20 AM | Add Comment

The Archbishop of Canterbury

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/18/2008 6:28 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Saudi Witches and the Shari'a

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/15/2008 5:50 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Breaking Down the Muslim Monolith

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/13/2008 8:32 PM | Add Comment

Weaving Marginality into Significance: On Abolition and Sexual Privacy

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/12/2008 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Mediation through Marginalization: On Slavery, Jihad and Sectarian Killings

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/11/2008 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Conflicts of Interest and the Human (even Muslim) Soul

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/10/2008 10:21 PM | Add Comment

What annoys me about CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations)

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/6/2008 7:24 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

A (hopefully irrelevant) post on why Muslims mostly dislike Hillary

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/5/2008 6:48 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Threats and Margins in Shi'i Islam

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 2/4/2008 6:42 PM | Add Comment

Gay Marriage and the Shari'a; A Look at the Iraqi Personal Status Code

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/31/2008 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr and Islamic Economics

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/29/2008 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Beheadings in Islamic Law

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/28/2008 10:37 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment
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