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.
