241 research outputs found
ISIM’s New Academic Director Muhammad Khalid Masud
No full textProfessor Muhammad Khalid Masud has recently been named Academic Director of the ISIM for three years. He succeeds Professor Wim Stokhof who, as Director in Charge, laid the foundations of the Institute and led the search for an Academic Director. We will miss the distinctive presence of Wim Stokhof, but we are delighted with the arrival of Muhammad Masud at the ISIM. Masud joins the ISIM from the Islamic Research Institute (IRI), International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, where he was professor and head of the Islamic Law and Jurisprudence Unit
The Moroccan Family Law between Tradition and Modernity
No full textDepto. de Lingüística, Estudios Hebreos, Vascos y de Asia OrientalFac. de FilologíaTRUEpu
Khalid Masud's Multiple Worlds
No full textOver the last years Dale Eickelman has been in close contact with Muhammad Khalid Masud while at the ISIM. Often, while travelling the globe and changing flights at Amsterdam's international airport, the two would meet over lunch or breakfast. Eickelman paid frequent visits to the ISIM office, also in his capacity as member of the ISIM Academic Committee, and participated in several of its workshops. T h e friendship between the two scholars dates back to the 1980s. On the occasion of Masud's retirement, the anthropologist reflects on his career and their mutual interests
Application of Islamic Law in Courts
No full textFrom 26 to 28 October 2001, the ISIM, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and Cornell University, held an international conference in Leiden on the 'Application of Islamic Law in Courts'. The conference conveners, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David Powers, invited historians, lawyers, anthropologists and sociologists to come to Leiden to engage in a discussion on the manner in which Islamic legal doctrine (fiqh) has manifested itself in daily practice as reflected in the activity of the qadi, or Muslim judge
Role of the Council of Islamic Ideology in the Islamisation of laws in Pakistan
No full textIslamisation of laws in Pakistan has been severally explained as a revival of Islam, as the implementation of the vision of Pakistan formulated as Objective Resolution in 1949 passed by the Constituent Assembly soon after its independence in 1949. It is justified as a requirement of Sovereignty of God and Supremacy of Sharia as principles of Islamic State laid down by groups of religious scholars in 1952. It is described as a policy of the state in the 1973 Constitution. Continuing controversy on all these points has problematised Islamisation of laws in several different ways. On the one hand, it is viewed as an issue of reformation in the religious history of Islam, an expression of Muslim nationalism, and a characteristic of Islamic State. On the other hand it is considered a cause of the rise of fundamentalism and extremism, violation of the principles of democracy and secularism, and lately as a law and empire project.
Problematisation of Islamic law in these terms does not take into account the legal, political and social dynamism of Muslim societies. Essentialised definitions of modernity, state and law are a great hindrance to our understanding of the continuous unfolding of legal and political phenomena. The Islamic modernist approach towards historicising Islamic laws helps understanding modern dynamism. However, continued fascination of modern people with empire paradigm of law and state is compelling western political thought to ideas of state exception.
Muslim political thought has also returned to the idea of the global caliphate with nostalgic vigour. Advancement in political science, anthropology, social theories, social history, social psychology and other disciplines provide deeper understanding of law, state and society. Benefiting from these tools we can practice some archeological research in the origins of legal theories and reconstruct laws that respond to present day needs.
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Muhammad Khalid Masud, Judge of the Shariat Appellate Bench, Supreme Court of Pakistan. This paper was presented at the Pakistan Summit: Disentangling the Politics of ‘Crisis’: The Pakistani State(s), Governance and Culture from Within, International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, Adelaide, 6 July 2015
Muslim Jurists' Quest for the Normative Basis of Sharia
No full textMuhammad Khalid Masud, ISIM Chair at Leiden University and Academic Director of the ISIM, delivered his inaugural lecture on 'Muslim Jurists' Quest for the Normative Basis of Sharia' on 20 October 2000. In the lecture, he argued that the conception of the S h a r ia as divine law has problematized the binding nature of law in Islam because it conceals its material bases in the social norms. It also obscures Muslim jurists' continuous efforts to maintain general acceptance of Islamic law by bringing the legal norms closer to social norms. He argued that the current debates on the Sharia are also triggered by this conception as it ignores the inner contradictions between legal and social norms emerging in contemporary Muslim societies. The following contains a few excerpts from this lecture
The Challenges of Islamic Law and Muslim Societies
No full textAbdulkader Tayob, ISIM Chair at the University of Nijmegen, talks with Muhammad Khalid Masud about his early career in Islamic studies, his sources of inspiration, his role as a Muslim intellectual, and his experiences in Nigeria and in the Netherlands
Shari'a Scholar
No full textOn the occasion of his stepping down as the first Academic Director of ISIM and ISIM Chair at Leiden University, and to mark his resumption of full-time research, Brinkley Messick honours one of our leading international scholars of the shari'a, Muhammad Khalid Masud. Messick has been closely involved in Masud's research programme 'Social Construction of Shari'a' , most recently in the workshop 'Anthropologies of Islamic Law' (see pg. 9)
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