Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal
Editor: Sadiq Reza
New York Law School
This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts, providing an interdisciplinary forum for posting works-in-progress, and completed scholarly works on any matter of public or private law, legal theory, legal practice or policy that bears on the modern or pre-modern Muslim world, such as studies of:
Contributions are welcome from scholars of law, history, religion, political science, international affairs or regional studies, gender studies, economics or finance, and any other discipline from which pertinent scholarship arises.
- topics in classical or contemporary shari'a;
- legal theory, practice, institutions, or actors in pre-modern Muslim regions;
- domestic law or practice in modern Muslim-majority nations, or in non-Muslim-majority nations insofar as it affects or relates to Muslims;
- international law or practice that affects or relates to Muslim-majority nations or to Muslims.
This eJournal is sponsored by New York Law School. Established in 1891, New York Law School is an independent law school located in lower Manhattan, near the city's centers of law, government, and finance. This journal's founding editor, NYLS Professor Sadiq Reza (A.B. Princeton, J.D. Harvard), has been at the law school since 1999. In 2005 he helped establish the Section on Islamic Law for the Association of American Law Schools, and in 2009 he chaired that section. In 2008 he was named a Carnegie Scholar for his research and writing in Islamic law.Click here to Browse our Electronic Library to view our archives of abstracts and associated full text papers published in this journal.
Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal Advisory Board
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Editor: Sadiq Reza
New York Law School
Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Nathan J. Brown
Wael B. Hallaq
Bernard A. Haykel
Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Ann Elizabeth Mayer
David Stephan Powers
Abdulaziz A. Sachedina
Frank E. Vogel