Asad Q. Ahmed

Asad Q. Ahmed is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, co-editor of Oriens (Brill), and the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Series in Post-Classical Islamic Scholarship (OUP).

Islamic law and the state: rearticulating Sharia in Pakistan

This statutory nature of the Sharia begins to emerge, paradoxically, in the colonial British courts. It is this legacy that led to a reimagining of the role of Sharia, that now plagues the modern Muslim nation state.

By Asad Q. Ahmed

/ 29 Jul 2014

Islam’s invented Golden Age

The introduction of print technology fundamentally changed the way one did scholarship in the madrasa. There were no manuscripts and margins, no reproduction and living engagement with a tradition of argumentation - one of a number of social, political, cultural, institutional, and technological f

By Asad Q. Ahmed

/ 28 Oct 2013