Social Progress - Ethics & Policy
Does Liberalism Have a Future in Egypt?
Can we imagine a future for politics in Egypt without liberals and liberalism? Egypt’s political community is diverse and pluralistic, with competing and overlapping presences across liberal, Islamic, Arab nationalist, and socialist persuasions, to name a few. The liberal stream needs to remain an integral part of Egypt’s political and social landscape.
The Shifting Moral Universes of the Islamic Tradition of Iftā: A Diachronic Study of Four Adab al-Fatwā Manuals
The importance of Islamic non-binding opinions, or fatwas, for scholarly research is now well-established. Perceiving the
The Making of the Fatwa: The Production of Islamic Expertise in Europe
This article examines the kind of expertise that is provided by