Alexandre Caeiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandre Caeiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandre |
| FAMILY NAME | Caeiro |
| SIGNATURE | CAEIRO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamad bin Khalifa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7671-4403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Appeal of Religious Law
This article examines the role of religious law in the context of modern state formation in the Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. It focuses on Qatar, where a dual legal system emerged out of contestations over political community in the aftermath of imperialism and oil. From the mid-twentieth century onward, the ruling family empowered both a sharia and a civil judiciary without fully clarifying the jurisdictional boundaries between the two judiciaries. …
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics
Islamic Law, Oil Wealth, and the Modern State in the Gulf
How can one write the modern legal history of the Gulf states without projecting onto the past the contemporary hegemony of the modern nation-state? What narratives other than secularization stories might be told? And what archives are available to us to facilitate such an endeavor? This paper addresses these questions with reference to Qatar, where a powerful sharia judiciary developed under the British Protectorate maintained its autonomy until…
The Islamic Law of Pearling
In the first half of the twentieth century, the legal landscape of the Arabian sheikhdoms was pluralistic and fragmented. The legal actors who settled disputes included local rulers, qāḍīs, pearl merchants, tribal shaykhs, and British officials. Drawing on fatwas and correspondence between religious scholars and notables in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Kuwait and Manama, I examine how Islamic law shaped pearling – the region’s central economic…
Secular Governance and Islamic Law
In this paper I examine the uses of the concept of minority by contemporary Muslim public intellectuals engaged simultaneously in discussions about the status of Muslims in the West and the place of non-Muslims in the Islamic world. I show how the concept of minority – rendered in Arabic through the neologism aqalliyya – is both problematic and indispensable to the discussions taking place in the transnational spaces of Islamic normative debate. …
Facts, Values, and Institutions
Since the 1990s, an increasingly diverse set of Muslim scholars andinstitutions has called for the integration of social science into thesystem of Islamic normativity. This article explores some historicaland conceptual issues raised by this call. It approaches the issuethrough an examination of one of its central concepts: the notion offiqh al-wāqi‘ (the fiqh of reality or realistic fiqh). The article tracesthis concept’s distinctively modern hi…
The making of the fatwa
This article examines the kind of expertise that is provided by Muslim actors specialized in Islamic Law (muftis) to their coreligionists in Europe. It seeks to understand how the production of this expertise (the fatwa) is organized and managed, and to what extent it is shaped by policy discourses in the West. The article thus seeks to fill a relative gap in the scholarship on Islam in Europe which has often reduced fatwas to ahistorical and fun…
The Power of European Fatwas
This paper seeks to understand and contextualize the work of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, an institution committed to the elaboration of a fiqh of minorities through the production and dissemination at regular intervals of fatwas for Muslims living in Europe. Drawing closely on the work of Michael Warner, I suggest that the minority fiqh project may be best understood as the result of a performative conjunction between a particula…
The Shifting Moral Universes of the Islamic Tradition of Ift
The Social Construction of Shar'a
The Power of European Fatwas
This paper seeks to understand and contextualize the work of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, an institution committed to the elaboration of a fiqh of minorities through the production and dissemination at regular intervals of fatwas for Muslims living in Europe. Drawing closely on the work of Michael Warner, I suggest that the minority fiqh project may be best understood as the result of a performative conjunction between a particula…
The Social Construction of Shar'a
The Shifting Moral Universes of the Islamic Tradition of Ift
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics
Facts, Values, and Institutions
Since the 1990s, an increasingly diverse set of Muslim scholars andinstitutions has called for the integration of social science into thesystem of Islamic normativity. This article explores some historicaland conceptual issues raised by this call. It approaches the issuethrough an examination of one of its central concepts: the notion offiqh al-wāqi‘ (the fiqh of reality or realistic fiqh). The article tracesthis concept’s distinctively modern hi…
The making of the fatwa
This article examines the kind of expertise that is provided by Muslim actors specialized in Islamic Law (muftis) to their coreligionists in Europe. It seeks to understand how the production of this expertise (the fatwa) is organized and managed, and to what extent it is shaped by policy discourses in the West. The article thus seeks to fill a relative gap in the scholarship on Islam in Europe which has often reduced fatwas to ahistorical and fun…
The Social Construction of Shar'a
The Shifting Moral Universes of the Islamic Tradition of Ift
The Power of European Fatwas
This paper seeks to understand and contextualize the work of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, an institution committed to the elaboration of a fiqh of minorities through the production and dissemination at regular intervals of fatwas for Muslims living in Europe. Drawing closely on the work of Michael Warner, I suggest that the minority fiqh project may be best understood as the result of a performative conjunction between a particula…
The making of the fatwa
This article examines the kind of expertise that is provided by Muslim actors specialized in Islamic Law (muftis) to their coreligionists in Europe. It seeks to understand how the production of this expertise (the fatwa) is organized and managed, and to what extent it is shaped by policy discourses in the West. The article thus seeks to fill a relative gap in the scholarship on Islam in Europe which has often reduced fatwas to ahistorical and fun…
Facts, Values, and Institutions
Since the 1990s, an increasingly diverse set of Muslim scholars andinstitutions has called for the integration of social science into thesystem of Islamic normativity. This article explores some historicaland conceptual issues raised by this call. It approaches the issuethrough an examination of one of its central concepts: the notion offiqh al-wāqi‘ (the fiqh of reality or realistic fiqh). The article tracesthis concept’s distinctively modern hi…
Secular Governance and Islamic Law
In this paper I examine the uses of the concept of minority by contemporary Muslim public intellectuals engaged simultaneously in discussions about the status of Muslims in the West and the place of non-Muslims in the Islamic world. I show how the concept of minority – rendered in Arabic through the neologism aqalliyya – is both problematic and indispensable to the discussions taking place in the transnational spaces of Islamic normative debate. …
The Islamic Law of Pearling
In the first half of the twentieth century, the legal landscape of the Arabian sheikhdoms was pluralistic and fragmented. The legal actors who settled disputes included local rulers, qāḍīs, pearl merchants, tribal shaykhs, and British officials. Drawing on fatwas and correspondence between religious scholars and notables in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Kuwait and Manama, I examine how Islamic law shaped pearling – the region’s central economic…
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics
Islamic Law, Oil Wealth, and the Modern State in the Gulf
How can one write the modern legal history of the Gulf states without projecting onto the past the contemporary hegemony of the modern nation-state? What narratives other than secularization stories might be told? And what archives are available to us to facilitate such an endeavor? This paper addresses these questions with reference to Qatar, where a powerful sharia judiciary developed under the British Protectorate maintained its autonomy until…
The Appeal of Religious Law
This article examines the role of religious law in the context of modern state formation in the Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. It focuses on Qatar, where a dual legal system emerged out of contestations over political community in the aftermath of imperialism and oil. From the mid-twentieth century onward, the ruling family empowered both a sharia and a civil judiciary without fully clarifying the jurisdictional boundaries between the two judiciaries. …
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