Islamic law often provides contested terrain upon which debates about social and legal issues and advocacy for change are forged. Narratives, arguments, debates, and practices of Islamic law have played diverse roles within social movements in both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts. This panel explores the relationship and interconnections between Islamic law and social movements in the past, present, and future, including the ways in which Islamic law is imagined, mobilized, and debated by or within social movements; the ways in which Islamic law is deployed or negotiated in legal strategy; and Islamic law and identity formation or mobilization.
Business meeting at program conclusion.