Articles
Jurodynamics of Islamic Law, Rutgers Law Review (2009)
Abrogation is a classical concept of Islamic law, which allows jurists to organize the normative...
Temporality of Law, McGeorge Law Review (2009)
Temporality is an integral part of law. But legal commentary offers no analytical model to...
Advocacy under Islam and Common Law, San Diego Law Review (2008)
This Article demonstrates that advocacy arose as a reformist doctrine under both Islamic and common...
A Theoretical Analysis of Payment Systems, South Carolina Law Review (2008)
For over two hundred years, financial institutions have been providing payment services to transfer monies...
The Immutability of Divine Texts, Brigham Young University Law Review (2008)
Divine texts are universal and timeless. They continue to guide communities and generations across the...
An Islamic View of the Battlefield, Barry Law Review (2006)
Islam rejects all conceptions of holy war. Muslims are not allowed to engage in any...
Forcing them to be Free: Bush's Project for the Muslim World, Global Dialogue (2006)
Employing evangelical rhetoric, the Bush administration has launched an ambitious plan to bring democracy to...
Free Markets of Islamic Jurisprudence, Michigan State Law Review (2006)
This Article examines both internal and external scholarships and their respective contributions to the fiqh...
The Essentialist Terrorist, Washburn Law Journal (2005)
There is a coordianted effort on part of academics, scholars, think-tankers, journalists and others to...
The Reopening of the Islamic Code: The Second Era of Ijtihad, University of St. Thomas Law Journal (2003)
Resisting radical proposals for change, most Muslim communities are refusing to discard the entire past.Although...
The Dignity of Labor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review (2001)
The denigration of manual labor is a long, sad, captivating story of human civilization. No...
Islam as Intellectual Property: 'My Lord! Increase Me in Knowledge', Cumberland Law Review (2001)
The distinction between assets and ideas lies at the core of the misunderstanding between Islam...
The Evolution of Money: A Story of Constitutional Nullification, University of Cincinnati Law Review (1999)
In a free economy, the market rather than the law dictates which form of money...
A Theory of Universal Democracy, Wisconsin International Law Journal (1997)
A Theory of Universal Democracy develops the concept of Free State as a democratic state...
Lessons from Malcolm X: Freedom by Any Means Necessary, Howard Law Journal (1994)
It is no secret that Malcolm's doctrine of freedom by any means necessary generates fear....
The Kashmir Dispute: A Plan for Regional Cooperation, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (1994)
India and Pakistan should negotiate to convert the existing line of control into a permanent...
The Extinction of Nation-States, American University International Law Review (1992)
Hugo Grotius founded his theory of international law on the concept of territorial sovereignty. Over...
Learning Legal Reasoning, Washburn Law Journal (1991)
Learning legal reasoning, like learning to draw or paint, is a life-long process. No mathematical...
The Hermeneutics of Sexual Order, Santa Clara Law Review (1990)
The hermeneutics of sexual order explores sacred Christian texts and the US Constitution to explore...
Constitutional Kinship between Iran and the Soviet Union, New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law (1988)
Islamic egalitarianism embodied in the Iranian Constitution presents an alternative to both capitalism and secular...
A Legal Theory of Revolutions, Boston University International Law Journal (1987)
A legal theory of revolutions presents the principle of social approval. In order to determine...
Professor Prufrock, Journal of Legal Education (1986)
Almost by habit, Professor Prufrock will write a note about himself and stash it in...
The Invasion of Sexual Privacy, San Diego Law Review (1986)
Privacy is a universal value. No government must invade private homes to discover and punish...
Professorial Activism, Circuit Rider (1984)
Teaching law as science is morally confusing, if not dangerous. Supporting human laws on "scientific...
Books
A Theory of International Terrorism: Understanding Islamic Militancy (2006)
A Theory of International Terrorism studies Islamic militancy in the geopolitical contexts of Chechnya, Kashmir,...
A Theory of Universal Democracy: Beyond the End of History (2003)
Democracy is often associated with Western liberal values, such as free markets, individual rights and...
The Extinction of Nation-States: A World without Borders (1996)
This work explores whether the nation-state is a useful concept under contemporary international law. It...
Ghunghru (Urdu) (1975)
Thirty years ago, during the mid-seventies, when I was studying law in Pakistan, I wrote...
Ghantian (Urdu) (1974)
The Bells are stories of relationships. Written in complex metaphorical and hidden language, each story...
Contributions to Books
Commentary on the Constitution of Medina, Understanding Islamic Law (2006)
The first Islamic state was founded not in the shadow of swords, as is commonly...
Legal Scholarship as an Act of Discovery, Legal Education for the 21st Century (1999)
In the present age of depth and legal superstitions, traditional legal scholarship confined to judicial...
Popular Press
The Futility of Pakistan's 18th Amendment, Media with Conscience (2008)
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will soon propose to the Parliament the 18th amendment to...
A Lawyers' Mutiny in Pakistan, Jurist (2007)
The CJP’s suspension is indeed the most critical constitutional issue. Article 209 empowers the President...
The Pakistan Chief Justice Story: A Personal Narrative, JURIST (2007)
On March 9, 2007, I was visiting with a Pakistan Supreme Court Justice in Islamabad...
Combating Defamation of Religions, The American Muslim (2007)
The idea of combating the defamation of religions, though morally sound, is difficult from a...
THe Veil and the British Male Elite, Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel (2006)
All over the world, the law permits employers to impose reasonable grooming standards on employees....
Presidential Incitements to War Crimes, Middle East Online (2006)
On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, President George Walker Bush delivered an illegal speech and...
Headscarf Ban in Turkey: Suppressive Rulings, National Law Journal (2006)
Costume obsessions have haunted the Turkish legal system ever since the Islamic Ottoman Empire was...
The Story of Two Kings, MWC News (2006)
"You go fight, Mighty King!" said the one-eyed Vice King. I must hide in a...
Hagarism: The Story of a Book written by Infidels for Infidels, Daily Star (Bangladesh) (2006)
The book titled "Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World," questions just about everything Muslims...
The New Commandment of Political Murders: Thou Shall Not Kill--But We Will, The Statesman (2005)
Thou sall not kill, but we will. Under the new commandment, a priveleged state reserves...
The Invention of Porno Torture, Counterpunch (2005)
Porno torture is not defined in law. However, laws do define pornography and torture separately....
Morality, Terrorism, and the Laws of Motion, Counterpunch (2005)
The laws of motion do not justify terrorist violence. Nor do they merge good and...
Poems, PW Review (2005)
I've never been to the Paradise, but I've seen the apples, grapes and pomegranates gently...
Who is feeding the bin Laden Legend, Taipei Times (2005)
At first blush, any comparison between (Ro)bin Hood and bin Laden seems odd, most certainly...
The Jihad of Alan Dershowitz, Counterpunch (2004)
If to dispute well is law's chiefest end, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has honed...
Justice Antonin Scalia: Living in Another World, JURIST (2004)
For Scalia, the Constitution that came into formal existence in 1789 is a normative island...
Attack on America: An Islamic Perspective, JURIST (2001)
America and Allah are not at odds. Nor do they need to be. If the...
Unpublished Papers
Essay: The Quran and the Constitution, ExpressO (2010)
The Quran and the constitution are mutually supportive supreme texts; one does not negate the...