Tag: Book Review

RISE Articles 1
Islam Within: Exploring Its Spiritual Teachings

Book Review — Islam Within: Exploring Its Spiritual Teachings

Featured Publication RISE: Second Pilot Issue 📄 View PDF Issue 🔗 Issue Overview Page   “There is so much being written today that concerns the social, political and economic aspects of Islam, to the extent that the spiritual teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition is often forgotten. The present book renders a great […]

Scholaria Contributions 1

Label-Making and the Reimagining of Islamic Law in Western Scholarship

In summary, this is the project: supported by a grant from the University of British Columbia and a fellowship at Stanford, driven by an undercurrent of satire and persistent label-making, and culminating in the grand theoretical innovation of redefining zinā as rape. The goal, ostensibly, is to dismantle the monopoly of “state-sponsored scholars” and replace it with the research projects of this sort and this origin.