Dr Sarah Elibiary
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Key information
- Roles
- Member
- Qualifications
- PhD (SOAS University of London)
- Building
- Senate House
- Office
- S343
- Email address
- se10@soas.ac.uk
Research interests
- Islamic Law: principles of jurisprudence; comparative jurisprudence; family law; governance; laws of war and regulations on the conduct of hostilities; laws and regulations of rebellion; aspects of criminal law (crimes of hirabah “brigandage”); classical and pre-modern “reformists”
- Islamist insurgencies and the jurisprudential discourses of Islamist (Shi ‘i and Sunni) militant groups
- Structures of authority in Shi‘i (Twelver and Musta‘li Ismaili) and Sunni legal tradition
- International Human Rights Law: instruments; treaty bodies
- Religion, laws and societies of the Middle East and North Africa