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In early 2010, 11 Muslim college students were arrested for shouting down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California – Irvine in protest of what they saw as Israel's unjust treatment of Palestinians. A year later, the students would be charged with plotting …

This dissertation examines the development of an internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America in contemporary time to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence, fiqh al-aqalliyy at , that strikes a balance between Muslim's religious…

Islamic law has changed radically in the last 150 years this project focusses on the dramatic transformation of Islamic law during the British colonial period in three cases: India, Malaya and Egypt, and its effects in the post-colonial state. It argues that colonial and local e…

Some modern countries, including Pakistan have chosen Islam as a tool of political and economic philosophy in accordance with the Shari'ah . Prior to applying the Shari'ah in modern political and social context, extensive theological creative thinking is required to find accommo…