Comparative Constitutional Law Reading Group Session: 'Workshop on Islamic Constitutionalism'

A reading group session to discuss and workshop a chapter of Dr Iza Hussin's forthcoming book: All the Seas Were Ink: Islamic Constitutionalism in Motion.

Please email Zheng Hong (zhs23) for the draft chapter, which should not be further circulated without written permission from the author, if you intend to attend.

Bio: Dr Iza Hussin is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies and Mohamed Noah Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Her research and teaching are in the areas of comparative politics, Islam and Muslim politics, law and society and religion and politics. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the European Commission (Horizon2020). She holds a PhD from the University of Washington, an MA from Georgetown University and an AM and AB from Harvard University. Prior to joining POLIS, she was a member of the faculty in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her recent book, The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State (University of Chicago Press 2016), explored the construction of Islamic law in colonial India, Malaya and Egypt."