Top 25 Posts of 2025

As we begin the new year, we look back at the Islamic Law Blog’s most-read posts of 2025. Stay tuned later this week for a curated snapshot of last year’s research and scholarship at the Program in Islamic Law and in the SHARIAsource Lab, and subscribe to Islamic Law Blog notifications to never miss a post.

1. ::Roundtable:: The Book and AI: How Artificial Intelligence is and is not Changing Islamic Law
2. Coffee as an Intoxicant in Islamic Law
3. Legislation and Regulation of Islamic Law in Malaysia
4. Navigating the Prohibition of Ribā in the Modern Islamic World
5. Can the severity of ḥudūd punishments be adjusted to align with modern liberal values?
6. What Made the Founders of the Four Major Islamic Madhāhib so Influential?
7. Apocalypse in the Tian Shan: Or the Story of a Wasted Fatwā
8. Must a Wife’s Consent be Obtained to Contract a Second Marriage? Sharīʿa in Pakistan
9. How Muslims Have Altered their Religious Practices in the Face of Oppression
10. Revelation, Reason, or Rational Consensus? Divergent Views on Ḥusn wa Qubḥ and Natural Law in Islam
11. Islamic and Common Law Principles in Pakistan: An Analysis of Unstated Influences
12. Fatwā on Human Milk Banks: The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore
13. Was There an Early Imāmī Shīʿī Legal System?
14. Beyond Rights and Recognition: Muslim Personal Law in India
15. Islamic Law and ChatGPT: Student Essays from the Islamic Law Lab
16. Muslim Personal Law as Community Outreach
17. Saving Lost Souls: Fatwās Against Suicide in Socialist Uzbekistan
18. The Ascendancy of Fixed Islamic Corporal Punishments in Shīʿī Theocracy
19. … And Zakāt for All! Islamic Taxation in a Dagestani Kolkhoz (1950s)
20. SHARIAsource Lab Data Collection Report
21. God’s Wish or Mortal Error? The Iranian State’s Blessing for Vigilantism
22. Four manuscripts from the Mālikī tradition: Qarawiyyīn, 874
23. Navigating Legal Impasses: Maṣlaḥa, State Decrees, and Shīʿī Jurisprudence in Post-Revolutionary Iran
24. The Materiality of Everyday Islamic law
25. Sharʿī Legislation in 17th Century Yemen: The Chosen Rules of Imām al-Mutawakkil Ismāʿīl (r. 1054/1644, d. 1087/1676)