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Part Two: From the beginning, human rights consciousness informed Islam's religious law
When we say Islamic Law has lost its dynamism, we miss the point: the standard was caring for the underprivileged by holding the corrupt to account, not…
 • Reem Elghonimi
Part One: The story told about Islamic Law claims it needs reform
Most of Islam's history has been defined by the separation of State and Law, which prevented Sharī‛a criminal penalties from monopolizing the rule of…
 • Reem Elghonimi
The Lady and the Law: The right to an exclusive gift the Sharī‛a gave to women wasn't just about economics. It recalibrated social norms.
It was not the realm of politics that reaped social, moral, and legal remedies for Muslim women, but the intellectual legal tradition inaugurated by the…
 • Reem Elghonimi
Mired in Error: Descartes' Unquestioning Acceptance of dogma and What It Means for Islam and Evolution Theory
The 17th-century thinker fell into a trap that, ironically, shows us the nuances between literal readings of the Qur'an and the Bible.
 • Reem Elghonimi
The Orientalists' Extreme Skepticism of Hadith Wrought Disastrous Consequences for Islamic Law. It has stolen our intangible cultural…
This is the insidiousness of epistemic attacks on Islam’s intellectual heritage. Shafi’i's al-Risala is the text whose longform use of reason was the…
 • Reem Elghonimi
A Valedictorian Nothing
I was a model straight A student, but as a brown Muslim girl, my effort didn't save me from being pulled out of class and publicly beaten by school…
 • Reem Elghonimi
'As If' Reasoning: Using Maqasid al-Sharia inappropriately, As If Islamic Civilization was the force that gave religious law tyrannical…
In the Western imagination, Islam and its Muslim populations have been projected as the face of what was actually Europe’s historical religious…
 • Reem Elghonimi
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Many Muslims face a crisis over whether modern society can accept them without abandoning Islam. Many Americans and Westerners suffer from anxiety over the threat of Islam. Doing history right is the way forward.
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