Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is my moral responsibility towards myself and others? The human being asks himself these and tens of other crucial questions from time to time, but can find no satisfactory answer unless he listens to the call of revelation. When he does this,...Read More

The outbreak of Arab uprisings across the Middle East in early 2011 coincided with a marked rise of Islamic political movements in the Arab world. The electoral successes of Islamic political groups, particularly in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Morocco, reflect this rise. These successes were, in part, an expression of the desire shared by a...Read More

Abstract The present paper addresses the mutual relationship between society and law in shaping women’s law in Islam from the perspective of the sociology of law. It analyzes the role of pre-Islamic social, political, and economic structures in the Arabian Peninsula in modeling women’s law and highlights some customary laws which were rejected or revived...Read More