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Book Review: “Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition”


Posted by Guest Contributor on 29 Feb 2016 / 0 Comments
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This post was originally written by Shehnaz Haqqani, and originally published at her blog, Freedom from the Forbidden.  A slightly shorter version of the review was published in the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, vol. 33, Issue number 1, Winter 2016.  It is reposted here with permission from the editor. At a time when […]

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Culture/Society

The Crimes and Punishment of Apostasy and Adultery


Posted by tasnim on 22 May 2014 / 3 Comments
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Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese doctor who married a Christian man in 2011, was convicted last week on charges of apostasy.  While Ibrahim has a Muslim father, she appears to have been raised Christian. Apostasy implies conversion, but as Ibrahim reportedly told the judge, “I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.” By her account, […]

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The “Limit of Tolerance” of a white, privileged, non-Muslim man


Posted by faith on 14 Apr 2009 / 0 Comments
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I wrote a post last week on the flogging that took place in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and my thoughts on the video. This week, Randy Cohen, a columnist for The New York Times, wrote a piece on the ethics of what took place in Pakistan, as well as the recent law proposed in Afghanistan. While […]

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Mixing up the message on Islamic law


Posted by Krista Riley on 27 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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You know that game called “broken telephone” (it goes by other names too, I think), where one person whispers a message in someone’s ear, who whispers it to someone else, and so on, and by the time it reaches the last person, it gets a bit warped? That’s probably a pretty good analogy for what […]

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