Sharia Hisba and public lawsuit: An original study comparing Sharia and Libyan law

Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law: Remarks on the Egyptian Context

Sharia Stock Screening: A Fund Manager's Conundrum

A fund manager has to abide by a set of business and financial parameters before selecting and including a particular stock in an Islamic fund portfolio. There are various Islamic screening methods followed by stock indices and banks, namely Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIMI), FTSE Global Islamic Index Series, S&P 500, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) and Accounting and Auditing ...

Promoting Women’s Rights through Sharia in Northern Nigeria

Multi-agent Security Architecture for a Sharia Compliant E-auction

Electronic auction has introduced new processes in the way auction is conducted which require investigation to ensure compliancy to Sharia (Islamic principles that are based on Qur’an and Sunnah) rules. The use of mobile software agent in electronic auction marketplaces adds ubiquity power to the bidders. In particular it allows agents to quicker respond to local changes in auction marketplaces...

Explaining Support for Sectarian Terrorism in Pakistan: Piety, Maslak and Sharia

In the discourse around sectarian violence in Pakistan, two concerns are prominent. The first is the contention that piety, or the intensity of Muslim religious practice, predicts support for sectarian and other forms of Islamist violence. The second is the belief that personal preferences for some forms of sharia also explain such support. As I describe herein, scholars first articulated these...