Tag: shariah

  • Nation & World

    Finding ‘a solution to closed doors’

    A Harvard Divinity School panel explored the workings of Shariah law and the rights of women under its rules, in part through the eyes of its first female judge.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A warning from inside Tunisia

    A Tunisian constitutional expert said Sept. 17 that recent violence, coupled with moves by the ruling Islamist Ennahda party to enshrine religion in the nation’s new constitution, are a bad sign for a pluralistic, democratic future.

    5 minutes
  • 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
  • Nation & World

    Overseas, violence against women

    In some Muslim societies, the tension between genders can lapse into violence. Some Radcliffe Fellows can tell that tale.

    1 minute