Short Biographies

Rumee Ahmed (PhD, University of Virginia) is Associate Professor of Islamic Law and Associ­ate Dean of Communications and Innovation at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Islamic Law.

Werner Ende is professor emeritus of Islamic Studies. He served as research associate at the German Orient Institute in Beirut from 1969 to 1971, as professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg from 1977 onwards, and between 1983 and 2002 at the University of Freiburg. Since his retirement in 2002 he has lived in Berlin. Ende is editor of the series Frei- burger Islamstudien and was co-edited the journal Die Welt des Islams between 1981 and 2011.

Bernd Ladwig is professor of political theory and philosophy at the Free University Berlin. His research focuses on theories Ofjustice and human rights. He is currently writing a book on the political philosophy of human-animal-relations. Selected publications: ‘Human Rights, In­stitutions and the Division of Moral Labor', in: World Political Science 2016; 12 (1); ‘Against Wild Animal Sovereignty: An Interest-based Critique of “Zoopolis”', in Journal of Political Phi­losophy, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2015.

Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist, specializing in Islamic law, gender and develop­ment, and a founding member of the Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (www.musawah.org). Currently a Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, University of London, she has held numerous re­search fellowships and visiting professorships. She has published books on Islamic family law in Iran and Morocco, Iranian clerical discourses on gender, Islamic reformist thinkers.

Abbas Poya heads the junior research group ‘Norm, Normativity and Norm Changing' at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. He has researched and taught varies aspects of Islamic Studies (e.g. Islamic Law, Islamic intellectual history, and the idea of justice in Islam) at the Universities of Hamburg, Freiburg, Zurich, and Erlangen-Nurnberg.

Mathias Rohe is full professor of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, where he is also the founder and head of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and the Law in Europe. Rohe has published intensely on Islamic law and on the development of Islam in Europe (e.g. Islamic Law in Past and Present, Leiden 2015) and regularly advises European governments and administrations.