September 12, 2023 Understanding the Islamic Legal System for South African Legal Practitioners

2022-2023 Visiting Fellow Fatima Essop discusses the Islamic legal system in South Africa in her latest article published by the Advocate

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September 01, 2023 Program Newsletter September 2023

We are pleased to welcome our students and visiting fellows to campus and to share with you our line-up of fall events, as well as some updates of what previous staff and fellows have been doing.

August 29, 2023 Salma Waheedi named Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace

Salma Waheedi, Lecturer on Law and Executive Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, was named the Harvard Divinity School's 2023-2024 Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace. 

August 23, 2023 Do Islamic-law wills contravene the common-law prohibitions against delegation of testamentary powers and incorporation by reference?

Former Visiting Fellow Fatima Essop discusses whether standard Islamic Wills, in which testators delegate their testamentary powers to Ulama bodies to determine their Islamic law heirs, contravene certain common law rules, in her latest article published by the South African Law Journal.