Muhammad Zubair Abbasi
Biographic Data
| ID | 183622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammad Zubair Abbasi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammad Zubair |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbasi |
| SIGNATURE | ABBASI M Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1561-5457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Responsible Legal Augmentation
This article examines Ayinde v London Borough of Haringey; Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), a landmark High Court judgment addressing the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in legal practice. The case arose when counsels submitted fictitious AI-generated authorities, prompting the court to consider not only individual lapses but also the broader professional obligations that must govern technological adopti…
Legal Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has created both opportunities and challenges for the field of law. While it offers efficient access to legal information, it simultaneously raises questions about the nature of legal reasoning, professional competence, and academic integrity. Large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot—promise unprecedented efficiency in tasks like research …
Evaluating AI in Legal Operations
The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly transforming conventional legal practice. The integration of AI into legal services is still in its infancy and faces challenges such as privacy concerns, bias, and the risk of fabricated responses. This research evaluates the performance of the following AI tools: (1) ChatGPT-4, (2) Copilot, (3) DeepSeek, (4) Lexis+ AI, and (5) Llama 3. Based on their comparison, the research dem…
Non-qualifying ceremonies
Democracy under God
State recognition of Islam in Muslim countries invites fierce debate from scholars and politicians alike, some of whom assume an inherent conflict between Islam and liberal democracy. Analyzing case studies and empirical data from several Muslim-majority countries, Ahmed and Abbasi find, counterintuitively, that in many Muslim countries, constitutional recognition of Islam often occurs during moments of democratization. Indeed, the insertion of I…
Non-qualifying ceremonies
KEYWORDS: Non-marriagenon-qualifying ceremonyIslamic marriageprivate international lawfinancial relief
Democracy under God
Dead at Home, Alive Abroad
The remedy of restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) has its roots in canon law. It was incorporated into Muslim, Hindu and Parsi personal laws through the judgements of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council during the British colonial period. It has been abolished in the United Kingdom in 1970 when a Law Commission report found it ineffective in saving marriages. In South Asia, however, this remedy is still available despite constitutional c…
Development of Women’s Right to No-fault Judicial Divorce (Khul‘) in Pakistan
Pakistan is the first Muslim country, which recognized women’s unilateral right to no-fault judicial divorce (khul‘) under Islamic family law in 1959. In contemporary Pakistan, Muslim women have the unilateral right to dissolve their marriages through summary court procedure. This has been made possible because of the gradual changes in case law and procedural law stretching over more than half a century. Despite questioning the validity of state…
Sexualization of Sharīʿa
In 1979, General Zia ul-Haq promulgated the Hudood Ordinances to provide Islamic punishments for several offenses, but the prosecution for extra-marital sex ( zinā ) has been disproportionately higher. Based on the analysis of reported judgments, I argue that the higher rate of prosecutions for zinā was a direct result of new laws. Despite carrying the name “Hudood”, these Ordinances specified several taʿzīr offenses with the objective of ensurin…
Al-Fatāwā al-‘Ālamgīriyyah
Al-Fatāwā al-‘Ālamgīriyyah is a significant contribution of Indian Muslim jurists to the corpus of the Ḥanafī school. It was a compendium of the Ḥanafī authoritative rulings. At the behest of the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzēb ‘Ālamgīr, a board of jurists from various parts of India worked jointly to produce this compendium of Ḥanafī fiqh. It closely followed the Ḥanafī legal tradition by adopting the scheme of chapters of the famous Ḥanafī treatise, …
Polygamy and Second Marriage under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan
Under classical Islamic family law, a husband has the right to enter into a maximum of four marriages at a time. State regulation under the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 (MFLO), however, has restricted such privilege of husbands by requiring them to get permission for their polygamous marriages from the Union Council based on valid reason. Failure to do so is a criminal offence liable to punishment including imprisonment and fine. In addition…
Governing Islam
The scholarship on colonial British India generally portrays law as an instrument of domination and control, employed primarily by colonial officials to subdue the local population. Under the dominant narrative, colonial legal order was imposed in an environment of legal pluralism, wherein multiple normative sources of legal authority existed together, either harmoniously or in a healthy tension. In this story, colonial encounter is conceived as …
Marital Breakdown among British Asians
Judicial Ijtihād as a Tool for Legal Reform
In a series of judgments starting in 1959, Pakistani judges reformed Islamic family law by extending women’s right to no-fault based divorce ( khulʿ ). For this purpose, they directly interpreted the Qurʾān and Sunnah, and removed the requirement of the consent of a husband for judicial khulʿ . This article analyses the methods and the methodological tools that Pakistani judges used to justify the unilateral right of women to no-fault judicial di…
Women’s right to unilateral no-fault based divorce in Pakistan and India
Sharī‘a and State Law
The growing numbers of Muslims in the West have ignited a debate about the compatibility of Sharī‘a with state law. The present article explores the issue from a historical perspective by providing a brief survey of Islamic legal history. It specifically focuses on the interaction of Sharī‘a with the English legal system in colonial India. The main argument of the article is that during its long history, Sharī‘a co-existed with the ruler’s law ( …
Islamic Law and Social Change
A majority of scholars criticize British Indian Courts for making Islamic law rigid and stagnant by relying only on the translations of selected classical legal texts and operating under the doctrine of precedent. This paper challenges that view. It argues that Anglo-Muhammadan law responded to social change by providing a venue for discourse to various classes of society. Judges, lawyers, legal commentators, ulema and politicians played an activ…
Judicial Ijtihād as a Tool for Legal Reform
In a series of judgments starting in 1959, Pakistani judges reformed Islamic family law by extending women’s right to no-fault based divorce ( khulʿ ). For this purpose, they directly interpreted the Qurʾān and Sunnah, and removed the requirement of the consent of a husband for judicial khulʿ . This article analyses the methods and the methodological tools that Pakistani judges used to justify the unilateral right of women to no-fault judicial di…
Women’s right to unilateral no-fault based divorce in Pakistan and India
Islamic Law and Social Change
A majority of scholars criticize British Indian Courts for making Islamic law rigid and stagnant by relying only on the translations of selected classical legal texts and operating under the doctrine of precedent. This paper challenges that view. It argues that Anglo-Muhammadan law responded to social change by providing a venue for discourse to various classes of society. Judges, lawyers, legal commentators, ulema and politicians played an activ…
Non-qualifying ceremonies
KEYWORDS: Non-marriagenon-qualifying ceremonyIslamic marriageprivate international lawfinancial relief
Marital Breakdown among British Asians
Sharī‘a and State Law
The growing numbers of Muslims in the West have ignited a debate about the compatibility of Sharī‘a with state law. The present article explores the issue from a historical perspective by providing a brief survey of Islamic legal history. It specifically focuses on the interaction of Sharī‘a with the English legal system in colonial India. The main argument of the article is that during its long history, Sharī‘a co-existed with the ruler’s law ( …
Islamic Law and Social Change
A majority of scholars criticize British Indian Courts for making Islamic law rigid and stagnant by relying only on the translations of selected classical legal texts and operating under the doctrine of precedent. This paper challenges that view. It argues that Anglo-Muhammadan law responded to social change by providing a venue for discourse to various classes of society. Judges, lawyers, legal commentators, ulema and politicians played an activ…
Women’s right to unilateral no-fault based divorce in Pakistan and India
Judicial Ijtihād as a Tool for Legal Reform
In a series of judgments starting in 1959, Pakistani judges reformed Islamic family law by extending women’s right to no-fault based divorce ( khulʿ ). For this purpose, they directly interpreted the Qurʾān and Sunnah, and removed the requirement of the consent of a husband for judicial khulʿ . This article analyses the methods and the methodological tools that Pakistani judges used to justify the unilateral right of women to no-fault judicial di…
Al-Fatāwā al-‘Ālamgīriyyah
Al-Fatāwā al-‘Ālamgīriyyah is a significant contribution of Indian Muslim jurists to the corpus of the Ḥanafī school. It was a compendium of the Ḥanafī authoritative rulings. At the behest of the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzēb ‘Ālamgīr, a board of jurists from various parts of India worked jointly to produce this compendium of Ḥanafī fiqh. It closely followed the Ḥanafī legal tradition by adopting the scheme of chapters of the famous Ḥanafī treatise, …
Polygamy and Second Marriage under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan
Under classical Islamic family law, a husband has the right to enter into a maximum of four marriages at a time. State regulation under the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 (MFLO), however, has restricted such privilege of husbands by requiring them to get permission for their polygamous marriages from the Union Council based on valid reason. Failure to do so is a criminal offence liable to punishment including imprisonment and fine. In addition…
Governing Islam
The scholarship on colonial British India generally portrays law as an instrument of domination and control, employed primarily by colonial officials to subdue the local population. Under the dominant narrative, colonial legal order was imposed in an environment of legal pluralism, wherein multiple normative sources of legal authority existed together, either harmoniously or in a healthy tension. In this story, colonial encounter is conceived as …
Marital Breakdown among British Asians
Sexualization of Sharīʿa
In 1979, General Zia ul-Haq promulgated the Hudood Ordinances to provide Islamic punishments for several offenses, but the prosecution for extra-marital sex ( zinā ) has been disproportionately higher. Based on the analysis of reported judgments, I argue that the higher rate of prosecutions for zinā was a direct result of new laws. Despite carrying the name “Hudood”, these Ordinances specified several taʿzīr offenses with the objective of ensurin…
Dead at Home, Alive Abroad
The remedy of restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) has its roots in canon law. It was incorporated into Muslim, Hindu and Parsi personal laws through the judgements of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council during the British colonial period. It has been abolished in the United Kingdom in 1970 when a Law Commission report found it ineffective in saving marriages. In South Asia, however, this remedy is still available despite constitutional c…
Development of Women’s Right to No-fault Judicial Divorce (Khul‘) in Pakistan
Pakistan is the first Muslim country, which recognized women’s unilateral right to no-fault judicial divorce (khul‘) under Islamic family law in 1959. In contemporary Pakistan, Muslim women have the unilateral right to dissolve their marriages through summary court procedure. This has been made possible because of the gradual changes in case law and procedural law stretching over more than half a century. Despite questioning the validity of state…
Democracy under God
State recognition of Islam in Muslim countries invites fierce debate from scholars and politicians alike, some of whom assume an inherent conflict between Islam and liberal democracy. Analyzing case studies and empirical data from several Muslim-majority countries, Ahmed and Abbasi find, counterintuitively, that in many Muslim countries, constitutional recognition of Islam often occurs during moments of democratization. Indeed, the insertion of I…
Non-qualifying ceremonies
KEYWORDS: Non-marriagenon-qualifying ceremonyIslamic marriageprivate international lawfinancial relief
Democracy under God
Non-qualifying ceremonies
Responsible Legal Augmentation
This article examines Ayinde v London Borough of Haringey; Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), a landmark High Court judgment addressing the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in legal practice. The case arose when counsels submitted fictitious AI-generated authorities, prompting the court to consider not only individual lapses but also the broader professional obligations that must govern technological adopti…
Legal Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has created both opportunities and challenges for the field of law. While it offers efficient access to legal information, it simultaneously raises questions about the nature of legal reasoning, professional competence, and academic integrity. Large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot—promise unprecedented efficiency in tasks like research …
Evaluating AI in Legal Operations
The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly transforming conventional legal practice. The integration of AI into legal services is still in its infancy and faces challenges such as privacy concerns, bias, and the risk of fabricated responses. This research evaluates the performance of the following AI tools: (1) ChatGPT-4, (2) Copilot, (3) DeepSeek, (4) Lexis+ AI, and (5) Llama 3. Based on their comparison, the research dem…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Islam (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sharia (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Gender and Women's Rights (5 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (5 works)