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

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 (4) | Add Comment

Modern Insurance and Medieval Islam

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 5/10/2008 9:42 PM | 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 (2) | 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 (3) | 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 | 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 (4) | Add Comment

Four Critiques on Islamic law scholarship in law schools

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

Every Day is Ashura, and Every Land Kerbala

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/21/2008 9:37 PM | Add Comment

Sistani and the Iraqi State

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/18/2008 1:58 PM | Add Comment

Obama the Muslim

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/17/2008 8:05 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Islamic Finance Presentation--A View from the Mosque

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/16/2008 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Nuclear Energy and Afghan Weddings

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/14/2008 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Islamic Finance (Finally)--A Note on Insurance

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/13/2008 10:29 PM | Add Comment

American values, New Hampshire Primaries and Islam

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 1/9/2008 7:14 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

On Booze and Beauty Salons

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/27/2007 11:50 PM | Add Comment

A Recent Poll on Islamic Extremism in Saudi Arabia

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/21/2007 2:27 PM | Add Comment

Thoughts on the International and the Islamic

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/20/2007 1:03 PM | Add Comment

Saudi Pardon

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/19/2007 12:24 PM | Add Comment

Mediation through Silence: On Honor Killings and Female Genital Mutilation

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/15/2007 10:52 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Reflections on the Islam and Liberal Citizenship Conference at Yale

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/10/2007 4:57 PM | View Comments (12) | Add Comment

Jihad in Our Times

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/4/2007 6:00 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Follow up to last post

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 12/2/2007 1:24 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

What's Wrong with the Study of Islamic Law Today

Posted by Haider Ala Hamoudi at 11/29/2007 5:51 PM | View Comments (17) | Add Comment
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