Tag: Islamic law

  • Nation & World

    Whither Egypt

    Though a street revolution in Egypt succeeded against long odds, the country faces the harsh reality of forging a new social contract for governance. Not even the deputy chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, who spoke at Harvard Law School April 14, could predict that Egypt will successfully make the transition to…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The human side of Shariah

    A scholar at Harvard Divinity School examines the humanity in the Islamic legal system of Shariah.

    2 minutes