Ph.D. candidate · Indiana University · Expected December 2026

Mohamed SayedIslamic law in history and political life

I study how classical Islamic jurisprudence and legal theory shape modern debates about scripture, authority, and the state.

Dissertation
Indiana University
Committee chair
Asma Afsaruddin
Completion
Expected December 2026

Featured research

The Islamic State Between Utopia and Submission: Taḥqīq al-Manāṭ as a Jurisprudential Methodology for Islamic Political Reasoning

The project recovers taḥqīq al-manāṭ—the jurisprudential work of identifying how a rule’s operative rationale applies to a concrete case—as a method for examining political judgment under the conditions of the modern state.

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