Rami KOUJAH

Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.: 
Stanford Law School/ Princeton University
Master's Degree: 
University of California–Los Angeles/ University of Oxford
Bachelor's Degree: 
University of California–Los Angeles

Research Areas: 
  • İslam hukuku
  • Hukuk tarihi
  • Hukuk teorisi ve hukuk felsefesi
  • Hukuk ve din
  • Hukuk ve siyaset teorisi
  • Eleştirel hukuk çalışmaları
  • Karşılaştırmalı hukuk
  • Kanunların yorumu
Selected Publications: 
  • Islamic Legal Personhood: A Genealogy of Rights, Responsibility, and the Juridical Construction of the Self (under contract with Harvard University Press)
  • The Cambridge Handbook to Islamic Law, co-editor (under contract with Cambridge University Press)
  • "The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: From Artifact to Ontology," Journal of Law and Religion (under review)
  • "Theorizing (Islamic) Law: Concepts, Categories, Translation," in The Cambridge Companion to Islamic Law (forthcoming)
  • "Understanding Rights in Islamic Law," in The Cambridge Companion to Islamic Law (forthcoming)
  • "Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa as Islamic Virtue Jurisprudence," in The Spirit of Islamic Law, ed. Rami Koujah and Josef Linnhoff (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025): 73-98
  • "Public Interest as a Normative Claim of Islamic Jurisprudence," in Locating the Shariʿa: Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice, ed. Sohaira Siddiqui (Leiden: Brill, 2019): 127-150 (peer reviewed)
  • "On the Purposiveness of God's Actions and its Implications in Legal Theory," Islamic Law and Society 24:3 (2017): 171-210 (peer reviewed)