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Books
Oxford Handbook on Islamic Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming, co-editor with Rumee Ahmed).
Editor. Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2016.
Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.(co-authored with Matthew Levering and David Novak).
Book Chapters
“Fiqh.” In Oxford Handbook on Islamic Law. Eds. Rumee Ahmed and Anver M. Emon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Islamic Law and Finance.” In Oxford Handbook on Islamic Law. Eds. Rumee Ahmed and Anver M. Emon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Sharia and the Rule of Law.” In Shari’a: Law and Modern Muslim Ethics. Ed. Robert Hefner. 37-64. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
"The Quadrants of Shari'a: The Here and Hereafter as Constitutive of Islamic Law." In Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam. Eds. Todd Lawson and Sebastian Geunther. 2:1099-1126. Leiden: Brill Publications, 2016.
“Introduction: Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning — Beginnings.” In Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other. Ed. Anver M. Emon. XI-XXVI. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2016. [Coauthored with Robert Gibbs].
“Sovereignty, Law, and the Pedagogy of Historical Fantasy: On the Halakha on the Laws of War and the Fiqh on Dhimmis. In Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other. Ed. Anver M Emon. 155-218. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2016. [Co-authored with Arye Edrei].
“Law, Natural.” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. 2nd ed. Vol 2. 649-651. New York: MacMillan, 2016.
“Ijtihad.” In Oxford Handbook on Islamic Law. Eds. Rumee Ahmed and Anver M. Emon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
"Shari'a and the Rule of Law: Preserving the Realm." In Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law. Eds. Robin Griffith-Jones and Mark Hill Q.C. 196-214. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
"On Islam and Islamic Natural Law: A Response to the International Theological Commission's 'Look at Natural Law'." In Searching for a Universal Ethic. Eds. John Berkman and William C. Mattison. 125-135, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014.
"The Paradox of Equality and the Politics of Difference: Gender Equality, Islamic Law, and the Modern Muslim State." In Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition. Eds. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Kari Vogt, Lena Larson, and Christian Moe. 237-258. London: IB Tauris, 2013.
“Editors Introduction.” In Islamic Law and International Law: Searching for Common Ground? Eds Anver M. Emon, Mark Ellis and Benjamin Glahn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 (co-authored with co-editors).
“Sharia and the Modern State.” In Islamic Law and International Law: Searching for Common Ground? Eds. Anver M. Emon, Mark Ellis and Benjamin Glahn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Religious Minorities and Islamic Law: Accommodation and the Limits of Tolerance.” In Islamic Law and International Law: Searching for Common Ground? Eds Anver M. Emon, Mark Ellis and Benjamin Glahn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
"Sharia and the (Em)Brace of Difference: From Theology to Law to Identity Politics." In Kuyper Center Review, volume 2: Revelation and Common Grace. Ed. John Bowlin. 173-199. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.
"Pluralizing Religion: Islamic Law and the Anxiety of Reasoned Deliberation." In After Pluralism. Eds. Courtney Bender and Pamela Klassen. 59-81. New York: Columbia University Press. (download article)
"Islamic Theology and Moral Agency: Beyond the Pre- and Post-Modern." In Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada. Ed. Natasha Bakht. Toronto: TSAR Publications, 2008. Pp. 51-61.
"The Limits of Constitutionalism in the Muslim World: History and Identity in Islamic Law." In Constitutional Design for Divided Societies. Ed. Sujit Choudhry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 258-286. (view on SSRN)
"Enhancing Democracy, Respecting Religion: A Dialogue on Islamic Values and Freedom of Speech," in Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law. Ed. Robert F. Cochran. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. 273-290.
“Tasdir [Forward].” In Khaled Abou El Fadl, al-Sulta wa al-Tasallut fi al-Fatwa. Cairo: Maktabat al-Shuruq al-Dawliyya, 2004. [Arabic].
"Foreword." In Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses: A Contemporary Case Study. 3rd ed. Alexandria, Virginia: al-Saadawi Publications, 2002.
Articles (Refereed)
“Codification and Islamic Law: The Ideology of a Tragic Narrative.” Middle East Law and Governance 8, nos. 2-3 (2016): 275-308.
"On Statutory Interpretation and the (Canadian) Rule of Law: Interpretive Presumptions as Boundary Setting." The Theory and Practice of Legislation 3, no 1 (2015): 45-89.
“On Sovereignties in Islamic Legal History,” Middle East Law and Governance 4, no. 2-3 (2012):.265-305.
"To Most Likely Know the Law: Objectivity, Authority and Interpretation in Islamic Law." Hebraic Political Studies 4, no. 4 (2009): 415-440. (view on SSRN)
"Islamic Law and the Canadian Mosaic: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Multicultural Accommodation." Canadian Bar Review 87, no. 2 (February 2009): 391-425. (view on SSRN)
"On the Pope, Cartoons, and Apostates: Shari'a 2006." Journal of Law and Religion 22, no. 2 (2006-2007): 303-321.
"Conceiving Islamic Law in a Pluralist Society: History, Politics and Multicultural Jurisprudence." Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (December 2006): 331-355. (view on SSRN)
"Huquq Allah and Huquq al-'Ibad: A Legal Heuristic for a Natural Rights Regime." Islamic Law and Society 13, no. 3 (2006): 325-391.
“Natural Law and Natural Rights in Islamic Law.” Journal of Law and Religion 20, no. 2 (2004-2005): 351-395.
Articles
"The 'IsIamic' Deployed: The Study of Islam in Four Registers". Middle East Law and Governance 11 no. 3 (2019): 347-403.
"The Future of Theological Ethics: Returning the Gaze." Studies in Christian Ethics - The Future of Theological Ethics: Symposium 25, no. 2 (2012): 223-235.
"Techniques and Limits of Legal Reasoning in Shari'a Today." Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law 2, no. 1 (2009): 101-124.
"Non-Muslims in Islamic Law." In Encyclopedia of Legal History. Ed. Stanley N. Katz. 4:233-235. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Toward a Natural Law Theory in Islamic Law: Muslim Juristic Debates on Reason as a Source of Obligation.” UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law 3, no 1 (2003-2004): 1-51.
“On Democracy as a Shar‘i Moral Presumption.” Fordham International Law Review 27, no. 1 (December 2003): 72-80.
"Reflections on the 'Constitution of Medina': An Essay on Methodology and Ideology in Islamic Legal History." UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law 1, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2001-2002): 103-133.
- Republished in: Abdullah Saeed, ed. Islamic Political Thought and Governance. London: Routledge, 2010.
"An Islamic Moral Imperative Against Terrorism." Middle East Affairs Journal 6, nos. 1-2 (Win.-Spr. 2000): 65-84.
"Negotiating Between Two Convictional Systems." 66 Fordham Law Review 1283 (March 1998).
Policy Papers
"Islamic Law and the Family." Prepared for Justice Canada's Family, Children and Youth Section. March 30, 2011.
"Construing Rights: Majoritarianism and the Scope of Rights Protection." Canadian Diversity: Balancing Competing Human Rights 10, no. 10 (Summer 2010): 33-35.
"Islamic Ethics of Mediation." Prepared for Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, January 2010.
"Shari'a, the State, and Identity Politics." In Governing Diversity: Democratic Solutions in Multicultural Societies. Eds. Razmik Panossian, Bruce Berman and Anne Linscott. Rights & Democracy; Ethnicity and Democratic Governance, 2007. Pp. 79-85.
Reviews
"[Review] Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context." University of Toronto Law Journal 60, no. 3 (2010): 905-907.
"Sharia and Its Discontents: Can we find more nuanced ways of examing the Other." Literary Review of Canada 16, no. 5 (June 2008): 11-12 [review of Sherene Razack's Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2008)].
“[Review] Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law, by Wael B. Hallaq." University of Toronto Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2007): 343-344.
“[Review] Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity, ed. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser.” Journal of Law and Religion 21, no. 1 (2005-6): 259-263.
“[Review] Medieval Islamic Pragmatics, by Mohamed M. Yunis Ali.” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 37, no. 1 (Summer 2003): 141-144.
“[Review] Taste of Modernity: Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus, by Itzchak Weismann.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 34, no. 3 (August 2002).
"[Review] Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought, by Daniel W. Brown." Journal of Law and Religion 16, no. 2 (2001): 647-652.
"[Review] The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, by Ahmad Hasan." Journal of Law and Religion 16, no. 2 (2001): 645-646.
“[Review] Islamic Maritime Law: An Introduction, by Hassan S. Khalilieh.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 33, no. 1 (February 2001), 124-125.
Other
“Islamic Law and Private International Law: The Case of International Child Abduction.” Institute Letters. 2015.
"Understand the ‘Law’ Behind the Schoolgirl Kidnapping, and Dare to Refine It." HuffingtonPost.com. May 12, 2014.
"Banning Shari'a." The Immanent Frame. September 6, 2011.
Anver Emon and Amita Handa. "Culture, Faith at Crossroads of Debate." The National Post. December 15, 2007. P A23. For full debate click here.
"A Malignant Vestige of 'Tradition'." The National Post. December 14, 2007.
"An Ethics Forum on Free Speech." (with Joseph Carens, David Novak, Wayne Sumner, and Melissa Williams) idea&s 3, no. 2 (2006): 6-15.
“[Op-Ed]: Pope Makes Mockery of Engaging Muslims.” The Toronto Star. September 22, 2006, A17.
“[Op-Ed]: An ancient doctrine, wretched out of context.” The National Post. February 6, 2006, A17.
“Minority Rights in a Multicultural Society.” Nexus (Fall/Winter 2005): 37-39.
“Understanding Sharia Law.” The Bulletin (University of Toronto) 59, no. 6 (October 31, 2005), p. 20.
“[Op-Ed]: A mistake to ban sharia.” Globe and Mail. Tuesday, September 13, 2005, A21.
“[Op-Ed]: “Shades of grey on Sharia.” National Post. Friday, July 29, 2005, A12.
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