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.
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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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