R.I.P. Ethics
It is not virtue, that you turn your faces to the East and to the West. True virtue is this: the one who believes in God; and the Last Day; the angels; the Book; and the Prophets, and gives of…
On Professor Abou El Fadl’s Shariah
A student asked me some time ago “whether there was any truth” in the following passage from an essay by professor Khalid Abou El Fadl:
“The Shari‘ah, for the most part, is not explicitly dictated by God. Rather, Shari‘ah relies…
The Independent, Rape & Marriage: Musings of a Student of Law
It seems the president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, one Sheikh Abu Sayeed, was taken for a ride in what provides the rest of us with a valuable lesson regarding reporters and interviews. Mark Hughes and Jerome Taylor of The…
