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).
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Published in: openIndiaIslamic 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...
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Published in: openIndiaIslam’s invented Golden Age
The introduction of print technology fundamentally changed the way one did scholarship in the madrasa. There were no...