Abstract: Soon after the Committee on Individual Rights and Equality submitted its report to the president of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi, the latter ordered the Legislature to amend the 1956 family law to equate between men and women in inheritance and property rights. The authors of the Report wrote forcefully about the compatibility of Islamic […]
While Islamic scriptures clearly prohibit profiting from the poor, supposedly sharī’ah-compliant Islamic financial and exchange laws circumvent prohibitions and limitations on ribā, monopolism, debt, and risk while failing to address the fundamental purpose behind the prohibitions — mitigating poverty. This study provides a historical survey of the principles that shape Islamic finance and exchange laws, […]
Abstract Is Islamic law organically linked to its primary sources, namely the Qur’an and the Sunnah, or is it manufactured by the ruling elite centuries after the time of the Prophet Muhammad? This is one of the central questions that a number of scholars of Islamic studies have been discussing since the end of the […]