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

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