Mohammad H. Fadel, Author at Contending Modernities

The “Miraculous” Nature of the Israel Exception in International Law: Israel’s Nationality Laws

Mohammad H. Fadel
June 4, 2024June 12, 2024

In order to create a Jewish state, the Israeli judiciary performed the miraculous/magical act of imagining Israel’s establishment as though it were an act of self-generation.

Can We Mediate between the Historical and the Rational? Reflections on al-Juwaynī’s Epistemology and Politics

Series: Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Mohammad H. Fadel
May 6, 2021January 27, 2024

Integrating quotidian practices into natural human reason seems to me to be the only way to provide them a secure foundation in modernity, when even deeply embodied customs cannot provide stability.

Islamic Law, Secularization, and Modernity: Two Islamic Conceptions of the Human

Mohammad H. Fadel
July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

Islamic law (fiqh), far from reflecting an obstacle to secularization—at least in the institutional differentiation sense—was historically a catalyst to it.

Articles written by Mohammad H. Fadel

The “Miraculous” Nature of the Israel Exception in International Law: Israel’s Nationality Laws

Can We Mediate between the Historical and the Rational? Reflections on al-Juwaynī’s Epistemology and Politics

Islamic Law, Secularization, and Modernity: Two Islamic Conceptions of the Human