The Jawahir, Volume 41: 254-58. What is a Scriptural Crime Really?
For those unaware, my colleague Jessie Allen has a wonderful blog in which she attempts to systematically go through Blackstone’s commentaries, and provide her own thoughts on it as she does so....
View ArticleFemale Genital Mutilation and Male Sexual Weakness
For those unaware, Egypt just passed a draft bill to increase penalties for performing female genital mutilation, leading an Egyptian Member of Parliament Elhamy Agina to object, on the grounds that...
View ArticleNotes of a Muslim American on the Election of the Wall Builder
I think the easiest way to explain precisely how deeply and fundamentally unsettling, indeed disorienting, the election was for me, as a Muslim and an American, is to begin by referencing numbers...
View ArticleIn defense of identity politics
The New York Times opinion pages today seem engaged in some sort of war against diversity and “identity liberalism.” As I understand, “identity liberalism” causes people to think less of the common...
View ArticleAlcohol Prohibitions in Iraq
I’ve been rather amused by the extreme reactions on all sides to Iraq’s recent decision to “importation, manufacture and sale” of alcoholic beverages. It’s either some sort of unconstitutional...
View ArticleWhite Votes and Brown Votes: The Numbers Explained
Question 1, what happens when 13% of a community vote for a particular candidate X, and 74% vote for candidate Y? Apparently, when they are Muslims, it destroys the narrative that the community in fact...
View ArticleReligious Freedom and Islamic Law in the Age of Trump
Eventually, I do promise to return to the subject of modern Shi’i law and the Jawahir, but first, let us speak of Allen West, he the former congressmen from Florida who has recently spoken in praise of...
View ArticleThe Jawahir Vol. 41:258 Fornication
Continuing with the commentary on the Jawahir, let’s start with its passage to open the discussion on the first of the Scriptural Crimes, that of fornication: On Fornication (Zina) It is shortened, and...
View ArticleIslamic Law Casebook Published by Aspen!
Islamic Law in Modern Courts, by Haider Ala Hamoudi and Mark Cammack Dear all: Apologies for my long absence in writing, but my position as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs has proven more time...
View ArticlePettiness in the Iraqi Political Classes: The Regulation of Ceremonies, No. 4...
Those looking for reasons to be despondent over the small-mindedness that seems to infect much Iraqi law and legal practice need look no further than the Regulation of Ceremonies, No. 4 of 2016. The...
View Article
