Oh dear my toddler accidentally grabbed my Qur'an and ate a portion of the page while I went out 🤦🏻‍♂️... we're taking it as a good omen insha'Allah that she will become haafizah one day. It's crazy how she actually ate:

ولقد يسرنا القرآن للذكر فهل من مدكر
And indeed we have made

Islamic Law on Trial by Sohaira Siddiqui

Siddiqui highlights three key ways in which the colonialists in India (East India Company and then the British Crown) successfully constrained the application of Islamic law:

1) Translating Islamic legal texts, this helps to restrict the