Mission: The UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (JINEL) is the first law school law journal in the West to deal with this topic. JINEL’s goal is to emphasize and critically analyze all legal issues – social, political, civil, historical, economic, and commercial – that are of particular relevant to Muslims and Near Easterners in both Muslim and non-Muslim societies.
Journal of Islamic & Near Eastern Law
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Articles
Tensions in Tradition: Hadith, Gender, and Reasonable Interpretation
Abou El Fadl, Khaled
An Evaluation of Pre-Modern Fiqh Rules Pertaining to the Marital Practices of Non-Muslims
Ali, M. Mehdi
Heaven or Earth: The Hagia Sophia Re-Conversion, Turkish and International Law, and the Special Case of Universal Religious Sites
Goodyear, Michael P.
Kidney, Money, and the Shī‘ah Implementation of the Rule of Necessity
Takhshid, Zahra
Comments
The Protection and Empowerment of People With Disabilities in Islamic Law
Austen, Margaret R.
Book Reviews
Mark Fathi Massoud's Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
Jishi, Omar
