List of contributors

Khaled ABOU EL FADL is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Islam and Shari‘ah, Islamic law and Islamic jurisprudence.

Ahmad Atif AHMAD is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB). Author of Islamic Law: Cases, Authorities, and Worldview (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Fatigue of the Shari'ah (Palgrave, 2012), and Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law (Brill, 2006), Professor Ahmad teaches courses on Islamic legal reason­ing in medieval Islam and early modern Egypt.

Mariam AL-ATTAR is a lecturer at the American University of Sharjah. She obtained her PhD in Islamic Ethics from the University of Leeds. Al-Attar taught courses on Islamic stud­ies, philosophy and ethics at King’s Academy and the University ofJordan. After moving to the Emirates, she taught courses in Arab Heritage, Introduction to philosophy, and Islamic philosophy at the American University of Sharjah. She is the author of a monograph on Islamic Ethics besides various book chapters and journal articles. Her research interests include Islamic ethics, kaldm, usul al-fiqh, philosophy, bioethics and contemporary Arabic thought. Prior to her academic career, she was a physicist working as a clinical scientist in Jordanian hospitals and in the UK.

Ahmed AL-DAWOODY was born in Egypt and is the legal adviser for Islamic law and juris­prudence at the ICRC. He also is a visiting professor at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining the ICRC, he was an assistant professor in Islamic Studies and Islamic law at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He was the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies for the Institute for Islamic World Studies and the coordinator of the MA program me in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He taught in Egypt, the USA, the UK, the UAE and Switzerland. He has published more than two dozen articles and book chapters on Islamic law and is the author of The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations (Pal­grave Macmillan, 2011).

Ovamir ANJUM is Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Toledo. His work focuses on the nexus of theology, ethics, politics and law in classical and medieval Islam, with comparative interest in Western thought. His interests are united by a common theoretical focus on epistemology or views of intellect/reason in various domains of Islamic thought, ranging from politics, law, theology, falsafa and spirituality. He is the author of Politics, Law and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is also near com­pleting a decade-long project to translate a popular Islamic spiritual and theological classic, Madarij al-Salikin (Ranks of Divine Seekers) by Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 1351) under contract with Brill, along with two other book-length projects, one on violence in Islamic thought and another a multi-volume survey of Islamic history.

Amirhassan BOOZARI is an Iranian independent scholar. He has an SJD (PhD in law) in Comparative/Islamic Law from UCLA School of Law and an LLM in International Busi­ness Law from Case Western Reserve University Law School.

Labeeb Ahmed BSOUL, Associate Professor at Khalifa University, received his BA and MA in International Relations embedded firmly in the Middle East and Islamic World from SFSU, and his PhD from McGill University. Among his many published academic articles, book chapters and books are International Treaties (Mu‘ahadat) in Islam (University Press of America, 2007), and Formation of Islamic Jurisprudence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Islamic History and Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Medieval Islamic World: An Intellectual History of Science and Politics (Peter Lang, 2018), and a recent monograph entitled Islamic Tarjamah (translation) and al-Muthaqafah (acculturation) and its Position in Human Civilization, under review.

Guy BURAK is the Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic and Jewish Studies at New York University’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. He is the author of The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Fuat Koprulu Prize of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. He is also the author of several articles on Islamic law in the Ottoman and post-Mongol periods. He is currently working on a monograph on the history of Kanun in the Ottoman and the post-Ottoman Middle East.

Mohammad H. FADEL is Professor at the Faculty of Law, which he joined in January 2006. Professor Fadel wrote his PhD dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law while at the University of Chicago and received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Omar FARAHAT is an Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. His areas of interest include legal theory, comparative law, theoretical and theological ethics, and religious forms of regulation relative to modern legal systems. His current research centres on Islamic legal and moral theories, with a focus on the analysis of key concepts in Islamic legal theory in conversation with similar debates in contemporary jurisprudence. Farahat’s first book, titled The Foundation of Norms in Islamic Jurisprudence and Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Explores the role of divine speech as a normative source in Islamic theology and legal theory. His work on Islamic legal theory and ethics has also appeared in Journal of Law and Religion, Journal of Religious Ethics and Oriens.

Wael HALLAQ is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia Univer­sity, where he teaches Islamic law, ethics and intellectual history. He is the author of more than 70 scholarly articles, and his books include Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians (Ox­ford University Press, 1993); A History of Islamic Legal Theories (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Shari'ah: Theory, Practice, Transformations (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Said Fares HASSAN currently teaches at al-Azhar University, Faculty of Languages and Translation, Department of Islamic Studies, Cairo, Egypt. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2011. He worked as a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University in 2012; a visit­ing fellow at the Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin, Indonesia in 2014; and a visiting fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität, Berlin also in 2014. His publications include Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat: History, de­velopment and Progress (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and ‘Law-Abiding Citizen: Recent Fatwas on Muslim Minorities’ Loyalty to Western Nations’, Journal of the Muslim World, October 2015. He has contributed a number of chapters to edited volumes such as Education and the Arab Spring: Shifting Toward Democracy, 2016, Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical His­tory, 2016, and The Encyclopedia of Muslim American History, 2010.

Ahmed Fekry IBRAHIM is Assistant Professor of Islamic law at McGill University’s In­stitute of Islamic Studies in Montreal, Canada. He holds a BA from al-Azhar University, an MA from the American University in Cairo, and a PhD from Georgetown University (2011). His research interests cover juristic discourse and court practice in both the for­mative period of Islamic law and the post-classical Mamluk and Ottoman periods. In his research, he seeks to explore the tensions between human rights discourses and some inter­pretations of pre-modern Islamic law. He is currently working on two book projects that have been supported with research grants from the Fonds de recherche du Quebec — Societe et Culture (FRQSC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He is the author of Pragmatism in Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press, 2015), and Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Ahmed IZZIDIEN completed his studies at the University completed his studies at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Theology and World Religions. He pursued his research at Harvard with a focus on Social Contracts of the Middle East. He returned to England to join the CIS at the Faculty for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he worked as a visiting scholar. He researched implicit determiners of early fiqh approaches to natural law. He then joined the CFLPP as a visiting researcher in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, where he undertook studies on implicit determiners of competing legal philosophies. He currently resides in Cambridge.

Sherman A. JACKSON is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, Professor of Religion and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Director of the Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice (CITCAP) at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. And he is author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihdb al-Din al-Qarafi (Brill, 1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hdmid al-Ghazdld’s Faysal al-Tafriqa (Oxford University Press, 2002), Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection (Oxford University Press, 2005), Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering (Oxford University Press, 2009), Sufism for Non-Sufis: Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandard’s Taj al-Arus (Oxford Univer­sity Press, 2012), and Initiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat’s Assassins and the Renunciation of Polit­ical Violence (Yale University Press, 2015). He has also authored numerous articles on various aspects of Islamic law, theology and history, and Islam and Muslims in modern America, with a particular focus on Black America.

Andrew F. MARCH is a visiting scholar at the Middle East initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of political phi­losophy, Islamic law and political thought, religion and political theory. His book, Islam and Liberal Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2009), is an exploration of the Islamic juridical discourse on the rights, loyalties and obligations of Muslim minorities in liberal politics, and won the 2009 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. He is presently completing a book manuscript on the problem of divine and popular sovereignty in modern Islamic thought, titled The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought.

Ziba MIR-HOSSEINI is a legal anthropologist, specializing in Islamic law, gender and Islamic feminism, and a founding member of the Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. She has held numerous research fellowships and visiting professorships (most recently at NYU Law School); currently she is Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, University of London. She has published books on Islamic family law in Iran and Morocco, Iranian clerical dis­courses on gender, Islamic reformist thinkers, and the revival of zina laws, and most re­cently the co-edited Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law (Tauris, 2013) and Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition (Oneworld, 2015). She co-directed two award-winning feature-length documentary films on Iran: Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001). She received the American Academy of Religion’s 2015 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion.

Felicitas OPWIS, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown Univer­sity, received her doctorate from Yale University. Her scholarship investigates the articulation of the religious sciences of Islam in their historical, social and political environment, focusing on Islamic law. In addition to tracing the intellectual history of the concept of public interest (maslaha) and the purposes of the Shari'ah (maqasid al-Shari'ah) in pre-modern and modern times, her publications address authority construction within schools of law, legal change, and whether or not a ‘reformation’ has occurred in Islamic law.

Amr OSMAN (PhD Princeton University, 2010) is Associate Professor of Islamic History in the Department of Humanities at Qatar University. His research interests include the intellec­tual history of Islam as well as modern and contemporary Arab politics and thought. His first book, The Zdhirt Madhhab (3rd/9th—10th/16th Century): A Textualist Theory of Islamic Law (Brill, 2014), examines the history and doctrines of the Zahiri school of Islamic law, engaging with modern scholarship on ‘literalism’ and ‘textualism’. He has written articles in both Arabic and English on the history of the redaction of the Qur’an, Muslim theology and political thought, and the relevance of early Islamic history to modern politics in Muslim countries.

Intisar A. RABB is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a director of its Program in Islamic Law. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of History and as Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has pub­lished on Islamic law in historical and modern contexts, including the monograph, Doubt in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015), the edited volumes, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts (with Abigail Balbale, ILSP/HUP, 2017) and Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought (with Michael Cook et al., Palgrave, 2013), and numerous articles on Islamic constitutionalism, Islamic legal canons of constructions, and the early history of the Qur’anic text. She holds a BA from Georgetown University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University.

Lena SALAYMEH is Associate Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. Her scholarly in­terests are Islamic law, Jewish law, legal history, critical legal historiography and critiques of secularism. Her book, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 2016) explores how historiography can illuminate Islamic legal beginnings with case studies on prisoners of war, circumcision and wife-initiated divorce. The book received the 2017 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Textual Studies. Her other publications deal with the relationship be­tween Islamic law and Jewish law, as well as issues of law and religion in modern secular states. Salaymeh serves on the editorial board of Law and History Review. She was a visiting professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. She earned her PhD in Legal and Middle Eastern History from UC Berkeley and her JD from Harvard Law School.

Irene SCHNEIDER is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Gottingen University (Germany). Her fields of interest are Islamic law (especially family law, penal law and pubic law) in contemporary Muslim states (Morocco, Egypt, Palestine, Iran and Afghanistan); his­tory of Islamic law; state and civil society in Muslim states; and gender studies and Islam in Europe and Germany. She is the author of Women in the Islamic World (Markus Weiner, 2014) and The Petitioning System in Iran: State, Society and Power Relations in the Late 14th/19th Century (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006) as well as of a wide range of articles on different topics. She is currently fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2018—2019).

Delfina SERRANO RUANO is PhD Tenured Researcher at the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). She specializes in the history of Islamic law. In 1999 she pub­lished a Spanish translation and study of Madhahib al-hukkam fi nawazil al-ahkam, a collection of legal cases compiled by the 12th-century Maliki jurist Muhammad b. 'Iyad. This collec­tion reflects the activity as a qadi and as a mufti of the author’s father, 'Iyad b. Musa (Ceuta 1083-Marrakech 1149 CE) who is better known for his Kitab al-Shifa’, a seminal biography of the Prophet Muhammad. She has also edited a collective volume on Cruelty and Compassion in Arabic and Islamic Literature (Madrid: CSIC, 2011). Results of her work have appeared in both Spanish and international academic journals like Al-Qantara, Islamic Law and Society, Der Islam, Hawwa, Bulletin d’Etudes Orientales, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Mediterranee and Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

Ayman SHABANA is Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received his PhD from UCLA, his MA from Leiden Univer­sity in the Netherlands, and his BA from al-Azhar University in Egypt. His teaching and research interests include Islamic legal and intellectual history, Islamic law and ethics, human rights and bioethics. He is the director of the Islamic Bioethics Project, which has been sup­ported by three consecutive grants from Qatar National Research Fund’s National Priorities Research Program. In 2012 he received the Research Excellence Award at the Qatar Annual Research Forum and during the academic year 2013—2014 he was a visiting research fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He is the author of Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) in addition to several academic jour­nal articles, which appeared in Islamic Law and Society, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Religion Compass and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.