Islamic Law In Our Times
A Realist's Assessment of Contemporary Islamic Law
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Haider Ala Hamoudi
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Rights to Silence in the US and Iraq
Monday, March 01, 2010
Law in the American and Iraqi Paradigms: Myths and Realities
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Maqasid and Family Law
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Institutional Failures in Islam
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Death on the Fortieth
Friday, February 05, 2010
Environmentalism and Islam in Our Times
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Real Electoral Crisis in Iraq
Saturday, January 23, 2010
America's Two Muslim Communities
Friday, January 22, 2010
On the Chimera of the Rule of Law in the New Iraq
Friday, January 15, 2010
Worship of the same God in the Muslim and Christian paradigms
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Islamic Law In Our Times: Category Archive for Shari'a Blogs
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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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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Optical Enactment and the Shari'a
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3/20/2009 3:38 PM
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Llewellyn's Canons and the Shari'a
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3/10/2009 8:09 PM
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Chasing Chickens and the Murabaha
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3/6/2009 5:05 PM
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Caprice and the Shari'a: Translated Qurans and Nations of Law
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2/15/2009 8:40 PM
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Lilly Ledbetter and the Difficulties of Shi'i Taqlid
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1/30/2009 4:36 PM
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Islam and the Alliance for the Nation of Law
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1/25/2009 1:48 PM
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Divisions and Unities Between the Muslim Sects
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1/20/2009 10:22 AM
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Authority and Its Avoidance
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1/16/2009 4:24 PM
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Fortune Telling and the Goals of the Shari'a
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1/13/2009 12:41 AM
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Ganja and Gays: Realism in the Islamic and American Contexts
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12/24/2008 11:28 AM
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Women's Rights in the Islamist Movements
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12/10/2008 6:11 PM
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The Islamic Uniform Commercial Code, and Why It WIll Never Work
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12/5/2008 7:02 PM
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Jerusalem and Kashmir: On Symbol and Substance in Muslim Grievance
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12/1/2008 10:32 PM
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Muslims Living in the West: On the Nature of Bad Argument under the Shari'a
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11/25/2008 6:03 PM
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Proxies and Purposes in Islam
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11/19/2008 9:37 PM
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God and the Absence: Theological Excursions
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11/17/2008 12:39 PM
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The Relevance of Text in Constitutional And Islamic Interpretation
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11/12/2008 4:49 PM
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"Bush, Bush, Listen Yay, We are with Barack Hussein" versus Obama the Apostate: Islamic Reflections on the Presidency
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11/10/2008 7:29 PM
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How to Deal with Jewish Or Muslim Roots: Candidate Case Studies
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11/3/2008 11:16 PM
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Hamas and the Marriage of the Widows
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10/31/2008 9:15 PM
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Law and law: Negotiating the tension between God's Will and Human Reality
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10/29/2008 10:24 PM
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Eppur Si Muove: Extremist and Terrorist Cultural Exchange
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10/28/2008 11:55 AM
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Taqiya, Dissembling and Anti-Muslim Bigotry
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10/22/2008 9:25 PM
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The Prohibition of Fun under the Shari'a: Salafi Ideological Fanaticism
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10/19/2008 10:45 PM
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Shari'a and the Power of Decree in the Muslim State
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10/16/2008 9:21 PM
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Does anyone appreciate the existence of non shari'a state law in Muslim countries?: A Cry of Exasperation
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10/14/2008 3:31 PM
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(Alleged) Muslim Sacred Text on (I quote, and not for normative value) "Dogs, Asses and Women": Forcing Change in Islamic Preconceptions
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10/13/2008 3:23 PM
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Takaful and Insurance: On the meaning of "ownership"
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10/10/2008 1:07 PM
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Is Islamic finance law?
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10/8/2008 8:52 PM
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On the Primacy of the State in the Organization of Law in Muslim Polities
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10/5/2008 12:37 PM
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On the Limitations of Liberalism in Muslim Polities
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10/3/2008 1:25 AM
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Fundamental Misunderstandings of Law and Islam in Iraq
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9/29/2008 8:29 AM
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Islamic Values, Secular Values and the Muslim State: The Muslim Mosaic
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9/25/2008 1:29 PM
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The Arabs and the Sharia: Models of Governance
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9/23/2008 10:05 PM
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Arabs, Muslim and the Secular State: The Dangers of Conflation
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9/21/2008 9:05 PM
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Intra-Muslim Intolerance: Thoughts on the Sunni Shi'a Divide
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9/19/2008 11:26 PM
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Killing Satellite Providers in Islamic Law
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9/17/2008 9:40 PM
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Review of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
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9/15/2008 10:02 PM
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Sistani and Soap Operas: On Resistance and Compromise to Western Influence
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9/12/2008 4:09 PM
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Al Qaeda and Female Terrorism
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9/11/2008 1:33 PM
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Sex and the Shari'a
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9/8/2008 1:39 PM
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Some Source Material on Child Marriage and the Shari'a
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9/3/2008 5:31 PM
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On the Mysterious Allure of the Fast
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9/2/2008 10:02 PM
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The Role of Islam in the Iraqi Personal Status Code: Realism in Action
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8/27/2008 9:11 PM
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The Muslim Woman and the Veil: Thoughts on the Olympic Experience
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8/25/2008 9:02 PM
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Women's Rights and the Iraq Constitution
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8/13/2008 8:11 AM
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Stupidity and the Shari'a, Part II: Muqtada al Sadr and Soccer
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7/23/2008 12:10 PM
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Stupidity and the Shari'a in Our Times
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7/21/2008 4:05 AM
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The Shari'a and the Shi'a
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7/16/2008 10:43 AM
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The Economics of Terrorism
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7/10/2008 11:24 AM
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The Shari'a and the War on Drugs: Public Interest as a Jurisprudential Tool
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7/8/2008 9:54 PM
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Lloyd Weinrib, Legal Reasoning, and Islamic Law
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7/6/2008 10:36 PM
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Shi'i jurists and Iraq's upcoming provincial elections
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7/5/2008 1:20 PM
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Child Marriage and the Shari'a
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6/30/2008 2:25 PM
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On the Fall of Islamic Quietism in the Shi'i Paradigm (Part II)
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6/27/2008 11:18 PM
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On the Fall of Islamic Activism in the Shi'i Paradigm
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6/25/2008 3:25 PM
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Israel, Iraq and the Role of the Shari'a
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6/23/2008 4:33 PM
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Read this week's entries on Opinio Juris
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6/17/2008 9:30 AM
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Apostasy and Disbelief as Thought Control in the Muslim Experience
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6/12/2008 9:33 PM
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Blasphemy and the Ahmadiyya
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6/10/2008 4:18 PM
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Competing Narratives among the Shi'a and the Sunni: Lessons from Gettysburg
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6/9/2008 11:15 AM
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Law and Politics in Iraq and Saudi: Non-Muslim Troops on Muslim Soil
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6/6/2008 4:16 PM
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Polygamy in the Muslim Experience: Interpretations and Attitudes
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6/4/2008 1:48 PM
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Economic Order in Iraq (Part II)
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6/3/2008 9:47 AM
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Capitalism Lives in the Anbar; On the Failures of the Islamic Economic Order
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6/2/2008 6:48 PM
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The Nationalization of Shi'ism and the Iraq Provincial Elections Law
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5/30/2008 8:18 AM
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Human Beings and the Real Story of the Rise of the Islamic State
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5/29/2008 2:35 PM
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Terrorism, Globalization and the Defensive Jihad
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5/28/2008 4:00 PM
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How Decisions are made in (Islamic) law
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5/27/2008 12:00 PM
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Fatawa and the Realities of Islamic Law
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5/21/2008 11:20 PM
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Shi'a Marginalization and the Rise of Hezbollah
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5/20/2008 10:33 PM
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Romeo and Juliet and Iraqi Women
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5/19/2008 6:06 PM
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Alms and the Sunni Shi'a Split
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5/16/2008 1:35 PM
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