Lena Salaymeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lena Salaymeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lena |
| FAMILY NAME | Salaymeh |
| SIGNATURE | SALAYMEH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Secular Myth of Hate and Neocolonialism
Neocolonialism is a contemporary form of globalized colonialism that uses institutions and laws to hide neocolonial domination. Neocolonial institutions and laws build on the secular myth of religious violence to delineate an even broader category of “hate-filled violence.” The notion of hate-filled violence is not a descriptive classification, but rather a mechanism for normalizing neocolonial violence as “not motivated by hate.” According to th…
Tradition islamique tardo-antique
Le droit divin et les lois divines II
Au cours de cette année (2021-2022), nous avons continué l'étude des versets qur'āniques ayant trait aux trois catégories taxinomiques que sont les Écritures (al-tawrāah, al-zabūr, al-inǧīl, al-ṣuḥuf al-ūlá), les Messagers (al-rusul, i.e. les apôtres de Dieu), et les peuples ayant reçu ou se réclamant des mêmes Messagers (par exemple al-yahūd, al-naṣārá, al-ṣābiʾūn, al-majūs). Nous nous sommes concentrés sur l'exégèse d'al-Ṭabarī (m. 310 h). En o…
Decolonial Comparative Law: A Conceptual Beginning
1 Our use of the term "Global North" does not refer to a simple geographical space, but rather a
Le droit divin et les lois divines I
Au cours de cette année (2020-2021), nous avons commencé l'étude des versets qur'āniques ayant trait aux trois catégories taxinomiques que sont les Écritures (al-tawrāt, al-zabūr, al-inǧīl, al-ṣuḥuf al-ūlá), les Messagers (al-rusul i.e. les apôtres de Dieu), et les peuples ayant reçu des Écritures de ces mêmes Messagers (al-yahūd, al-naṣārá, al-ṣābiʾūn, al-maǧūs). Nous avons pu analyser près de quarante versets ainsi que leurs commentaires rappor…
Decolonial Translation: Destabilizing Coloniality in Secular Translations of Islamic Law
Contemporary Islamic legal studies—both inside and outside the Muslim world—commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition. A secular translation converts the Islamic tradition into “religion” (the non-secular) and Islamic law into “sharia”—a term intended to represent the Englis…
Traduction décoloniale: Contre la colonialité dans la conversion séculière du droit islamique en “charia”
Les études juridiques islamiques contemporaines – aussi bien au sein du monde musulman qu’à l’extérieur – s’appuient sur une conversion séculière du phénomène juridique. Dans cet article, je propose une explication rigoureuse du droit islamique et une interprétation critique de la dénomination « charia ». L’objectif est de démontrer que « charia » veut dire « loi religieuse » et ce sens est en réalité une traduction séculière du droit islamique. …
Comparing Islamic and International Laws of War: Orthodoxy, "Heresy," and Secularization in the Category of Civilians
This Article investigates how contemporary laws of war rationalize civilian deaths. I concentrate on two specific legal constructions in warfare: the definition of civilian/combatant and the principle of distinction. (The categories of civilian and combatant should be understood as dialogically constitutive and not entirely distinct. In addition, the category of "civilian" is a modern one and premodern legal sources often do not use one term to r…
Imperialist Feminism and Islamic Law
This article presents three arguments about defects in imperialist feminism. First, I show that imperialist feminists engage in decontextualized comparisons: they consistently compare Western women to the Muslimwoman , without comparing Muslim men and women or comparing non-Muslim men and women. These inconsistent comparisons are the source of significant misrepresentations of Muslim women. Second, I propose that imperialist feminists view Muslim…
The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions
The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. Salaymeh challenges the embedded assumptions in conventional Islamic legal historiography by developing a critical approach to the study of both Islamic and Jewish legal history. Throu…
Taxing Citizens: Socio-legal Constructions of Late Antique Muslim Identity
The regulations pertaining to Islamic charity taxation illuminate underappreciated dimensions of how Muslims defined identity boundaries in late antiquity. To demarcate the contours of a historical process of Muslim identity construction, I analyze Islamic jurisprudential debates about who is and who is not obligated to pay the charity tax. Most late antique and medieval jurists made the charity tax incumbent on minors or others lacking full lega…
Islamic Law
Middle Eastern and North African Legal Traditions
Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective
An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading voices. While American scholars may have extensive knowledge about other justice systems around the world and how adults are treated, juvenile justice systems and the plight of youth who break the law throughout the world is less often studied. This important volum…
Tunisia's “Revolutionary” Lawyers: From Professional Autonomy to Political Mobilization
On January 14, 2011, after twenty‐three years in power and one month of popular protest demanding his resignation, President Ben Ali fled Tunisia. Lawyers, wearing their official robes, had marched frequently in the uprising's demonstrations. By engaging with and supporting the uprising, lawyers—both the profession in general and the bar's leadership—gained considerable symbolic influence over the post‐uprising government that replaced Ben Ali's …
Between Scholarship and Polemic in Judeo-Islamic Studies
Early Islamic Legal-Historical Precedents: Prisoners of War
The inseparability of law and history is manifest when historical interpretation -an integral component of legal hermeneutics-results in juristic disagreement. This article is a foray into the shift from prohibition to permissibility of prisoner of war execution in early Islamic legal history that connects changing legal opinions to changing historiographical readings. Contemplating the contrast between historical and jurisprudential interpretati…
Tunisia's “Revolutionary” Lawyers: From Professional Autonomy to Political Mobilization
On January 14, 2011, after twenty‐three years in power and one month of popular protest demanding his resignation, President Ben Ali fled Tunisia. Lawyers, wearing their official robes, had marched frequently in the uprising's demonstrations. By engaging with and supporting the uprising, lawyers—both the profession in general and the bar's leadership—gained considerable symbolic influence over the post‐uprising government that replaced Ben Ali's …
Decolonial Comparative Law: A Conceptual Beginning
1 Our use of the term "Global North" does not refer to a simple geographical space, but rather a
Early Islamic Legal-Historical Precedents: Prisoners of War
The inseparability of law and history is manifest when historical interpretation -an integral component of legal hermeneutics-results in juristic disagreement. This article is a foray into the shift from prohibition to permissibility of prisoner of war execution in early Islamic legal history that connects changing legal opinions to changing historiographical readings. Contemplating the contrast between historical and jurisprudential interpretati…
Taxing Citizens: Socio-legal Constructions of Late Antique Muslim Identity
The regulations pertaining to Islamic charity taxation illuminate underappreciated dimensions of how Muslims defined identity boundaries in late antiquity. To demarcate the contours of a historical process of Muslim identity construction, I analyze Islamic jurisprudential debates about who is and who is not obligated to pay the charity tax. Most late antique and medieval jurists made the charity tax incumbent on minors or others lacking full lega…
Comparing Islamic and International Laws of War: Orthodoxy, "Heresy," and Secularization in the Category of Civilians
This Article investigates how contemporary laws of war rationalize civilian deaths. I concentrate on two specific legal constructions in warfare: the definition of civilian/combatant and the principle of distinction. (The categories of civilian and combatant should be understood as dialogically constitutive and not entirely distinct. In addition, the category of "civilian" is a modern one and premodern legal sources often do not use one term to r…
Imperialist Feminism and Islamic Law
This article presents three arguments about defects in imperialist feminism. First, I show that imperialist feminists engage in decontextualized comparisons: they consistently compare Western women to the Muslimwoman , without comparing Muslim men and women or comparing non-Muslim men and women. These inconsistent comparisons are the source of significant misrepresentations of Muslim women. Second, I propose that imperialist feminists view Muslim…
Early Islamic Legal-Historical Precedents: Prisoners of War
The inseparability of law and history is manifest when historical interpretation -an integral component of legal hermeneutics-results in juristic disagreement. This article is a foray into the shift from prohibition to permissibility of prisoner of war execution in early Islamic legal history that connects changing legal opinions to changing historiographical readings. Contemplating the contrast between historical and jurisprudential interpretati…
Between Scholarship and Polemic in Judeo-Islamic Studies
Islamic Law
Middle Eastern and North African Legal Traditions
Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective
An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading voices. While American scholars may have extensive knowledge about other justice systems around the world and how adults are treated, juvenile justice systems and the plight of youth who break the law throughout the world is less often studied. This important volum…
Tunisia's “Revolutionary” Lawyers: From Professional Autonomy to Political Mobilization
On January 14, 2011, after twenty‐three years in power and one month of popular protest demanding his resignation, President Ben Ali fled Tunisia. Lawyers, wearing their official robes, had marched frequently in the uprising's demonstrations. By engaging with and supporting the uprising, lawyers—both the profession in general and the bar's leadership—gained considerable symbolic influence over the post‐uprising government that replaced Ben Ali's …
The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions
The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. Salaymeh challenges the embedded assumptions in conventional Islamic legal historiography by developing a critical approach to the study of both Islamic and Jewish legal history. Throu…
Taxing Citizens: Socio-legal Constructions of Late Antique Muslim Identity
The regulations pertaining to Islamic charity taxation illuminate underappreciated dimensions of how Muslims defined identity boundaries in late antiquity. To demarcate the contours of a historical process of Muslim identity construction, I analyze Islamic jurisprudential debates about who is and who is not obligated to pay the charity tax. Most late antique and medieval jurists made the charity tax incumbent on minors or others lacking full lega…
Imperialist Feminism and Islamic Law
This article presents three arguments about defects in imperialist feminism. First, I show that imperialist feminists engage in decontextualized comparisons: they consistently compare Western women to the Muslimwoman , without comparing Muslim men and women or comparing non-Muslim men and women. These inconsistent comparisons are the source of significant misrepresentations of Muslim women. Second, I propose that imperialist feminists view Muslim…
Decolonial Translation: Destabilizing Coloniality in Secular Translations of Islamic Law
Contemporary Islamic legal studies—both inside and outside the Muslim world—commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition. A secular translation converts the Islamic tradition into “religion” (the non-secular) and Islamic law into “sharia”—a term intended to represent the Englis…
Traduction décoloniale: Contre la colonialité dans la conversion séculière du droit islamique en “charia”
Les études juridiques islamiques contemporaines – aussi bien au sein du monde musulman qu’à l’extérieur – s’appuient sur une conversion séculière du phénomène juridique. Dans cet article, je propose une explication rigoureuse du droit islamique et une interprétation critique de la dénomination « charia ». L’objectif est de démontrer que « charia » veut dire « loi religieuse » et ce sens est en réalité une traduction séculière du droit islamique. …
Comparing Islamic and International Laws of War: Orthodoxy, "Heresy," and Secularization in the Category of Civilians
This Article investigates how contemporary laws of war rationalize civilian deaths. I concentrate on two specific legal constructions in warfare: the definition of civilian/combatant and the principle of distinction. (The categories of civilian and combatant should be understood as dialogically constitutive and not entirely distinct. In addition, the category of "civilian" is a modern one and premodern legal sources often do not use one term to r…
Decolonial Comparative Law: A Conceptual Beginning
1 Our use of the term "Global North" does not refer to a simple geographical space, but rather a
Le droit divin et les lois divines I
Au cours de cette année (2020-2021), nous avons commencé l'étude des versets qur'āniques ayant trait aux trois catégories taxinomiques que sont les Écritures (al-tawrāt, al-zabūr, al-inǧīl, al-ṣuḥuf al-ūlá), les Messagers (al-rusul i.e. les apôtres de Dieu), et les peuples ayant reçu des Écritures de ces mêmes Messagers (al-yahūd, al-naṣārá, al-ṣābiʾūn, al-maǧūs). Nous avons pu analyser près de quarante versets ainsi que leurs commentaires rappor…
Le droit divin et les lois divines II
Au cours de cette année (2021-2022), nous avons continué l'étude des versets qur'āniques ayant trait aux trois catégories taxinomiques que sont les Écritures (al-tawrāah, al-zabūr, al-inǧīl, al-ṣuḥuf al-ūlá), les Messagers (al-rusul, i.e. les apôtres de Dieu), et les peuples ayant reçu ou se réclamant des mêmes Messagers (par exemple al-yahūd, al-naṣārá, al-ṣābiʾūn, al-majūs). Nous nous sommes concentrés sur l'exégèse d'al-Ṭabarī (m. 310 h). En o…
Tradition islamique tardo-antique
The Secular Myth of Hate and Neocolonialism
Neocolonialism is a contemporary form of globalized colonialism that uses institutions and laws to hide neocolonial domination. Neocolonial institutions and laws build on the secular myth of religious violence to delineate an even broader category of “hate-filled violence.” The notion of hate-filled violence is not a descriptive classification, but rather a mechanism for normalizing neocolonial violence as “not motivated by hate.” According to th…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Islam (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sharia (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · History (5 works)