This course explores contemporary Islamic thought on the legitimacy of national and international legal orders; it reviews contemporary Islamic-legal theories on the topics of legislation, ...

On June 29, 2014, the Islamic State (also called ISIS) declared the “State of the Islamic Caliphate,” which adherents and supporters regard as nothing less than a restoration of the earliest model of ...

When empires fall, they tend to stay dead. The same is true of government systems. Monarchy has been in steady decline since the American Revolution, and today it is hard to imagine a resurgence of ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Faisal Kutty of the Valparaiso University School of Law says that there is hope for compromise between Western legal systems and Islamic law regarding the adoption of children ...

The purpose of this discussion board is to consider in a deliberate and scholarly way the principal challenges faced by Muslim countries in conceiving and operating their legal systems. Specifically, ...