Can the Shari'a be restored? / Wael B. Hallaq ; Inscribing the Islamic Shari'a in Arab constitutional law / Nathan J. Brown and Adel Omar Sherif ; A typology of state Muftis / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen ; A contextual approach to improving asylum law and practices in the Middle East / Nadia Yakoob and Aimen Mir ; Internationalizing the conversation on women's rights; Arab countries face the CEDAW committee / Ann Elizabeth Mayer ; Tahlil marriage in Shari'a, legal codes, and the contemporary Fatwa literature / Barbara Fryer Stowasser and Zeinab Abul-Magd / Egyptian feminism: trapped in the identity debate / Lama Abu-Odeh ; Muslim women and legal reform: the case of Jordan and women's work / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol.