Working Papers

Position papers generated by the programme are available below in multiple languages relevant to Muslim contexts. The papers are drawn from the Dialogue Seminar Series and the programme's workshops and conferences.

WORKING PAPERS 2019

The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship

By Nancy Hawker (AKU-ISMC) and Deborah Cameron (Universirty of Oxford)

Islamic law and gender equality in the balance: Inheritance law reform in Tunisia

By Salwa Hamrouni, Professor of Law at the University of Tunis; Roberta Aluffi, Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Turin; Dörthe Engelcke, Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law; Nadjma Yassari, Leader of the Research Group: Changes in God's Law - An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

Aluffi Paper & Presentation| Engelcke Paper | Yassari Paper | Hamrouni Presentation

Blasphemy and the State in Pakistan

By Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash, 2019 Chevening Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies

Bangash Presentation

Forty Years On. The Vocabulary of Secularism in Iran

By Yasuyuki Matsunaga (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Hadi Enayat (AKU-ISMC), and Ali Paya (The Islamic College, affiliated with Middlesex University, London & National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran, Iran).

Matsunaga Paper | Enayat Presentation | Matsunaga Presentation | Paya Presentation

Arabic for Gender: Practical Views on Gendered Language in Human Rights, Education & Policy Context

Arabic for Gender Working Paper (English).

Arabic for Gender Working Paper (Arabic).

WORKING PAPERS 2018

"Sharia in Europe? — In Anticipation of the ECtHR Ruling on the Molla Sali v Greece Case"

By Konstantinos Tsitselikis (University of Macedonia) and Yüksel Sezgin (Syracuse University)

Tsitselikis Paper: Arabic| English| Bahasa-Indonesia | Urdu

Sezgin Paper: Arabic | English | Bahasa-Indonesia | Urdu

2018 Annual Student Conference Award

"Informal Community Courts and Formal Law Enforcement: The Ismaili CAB in the Chitral District of Pakistan" (Paper for the Biannual Conference of the Commission on Legal Pluralism, to be held at the University of Ottawa, Canada, August 22-24, 2018)

By Syed Gohar Ali Shah, AKU-ISMC alumnus, 2017 cohort

Shah Abstract

Shah Paper