Iza Hussin
Biographic Data
| ID | 642016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iza Hussin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iza |
| FAMILY NAME | Hussin |
| SIGNATURE | HUSSIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8040-5689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between Empires
Publication status: Published
Coping with Defeat
Challenging Cosmopolitanism
Islam and the Rule of Justice
Islam and the Rule of Justice: Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture. By Lawrence Rosen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 279. $105 (cloth); $35 (paper and ebook
Becoming Arab
This book by Sumit Mandal, published as part of the Asian Connections series from Cambridge University Press, contributes to a growing literature on inter-Asian connections, and intervenes in an increasingly contentious and important debate on indigeneity, Islam and Arabs in South-east Asia. For Mandal, the concept of ‘creole’, understood through the Malay word peranakan, makes visible a category of race that has long been constituted by a negoti…
Translating public order
The New Global Politics of Religion’
This article explores key concepts in legal reasoning on the issue of ‘religious harmony’ in Malaysia. It argues that the concept of religious harmony belongs to the realm of public order, and public order is indexed to the legal logic of internal security. In Malaysian legal reasoning, the genealogy of these concepts runs through India and the United Kingdom. Arguments for religious freedom based upon normative commitments to liberal rights do n…
Citing Gender
Malaysian laws governing Islam have generally been understood to derive from common law precedents, and the system of Islamic courts to be modelled on its common law counterpart. Against the backdrop of a historical discussion on the ways in which personal status laws have come to govern the limited realm of family law, this article uses landmark cases involving women and Islam in Malaysian courts to trace new networks of training, scholarship an…
The Politics of Islamic Law
Misreading and Mobility in Constitutional Texts
This article explores the case of the adoption of Southeast Asia's first constitution (Johor, 1895) to articulate a fundamental problem of translation-the ambiguity and multiplicity of law's language. Closer attention to this problem helps raise a number of possibilities for rethinking the relationship between law, language, and mobility: firstly, polyphony, dissonance, and divergence in law's language reveals a plethora of political possibilitie…
A Discussion of Wael Hallaq's Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
In his new book The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament , Wael B. Hallaq argues that “‘The Islamic State,’ judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both an impossibility and a contradiction in terms.” In developing this argument Hallaq draws upon his extensive body of work as a scholar of Islam, including most notably his Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (Cambridge Univer…
Circulations of Law
Bernard Cohn once called the imperial point of view the “view from the boat”. There were other boats as well. In 1893, the sovereign state of Johor adopted the Ottoman Medjelle (Meḏj̱elle-yi Aḥkām-i ̊ḥʿAdliyye , the civil code applied in the Ottoman Empire since 1877), being the only state among the Muslim sultanates of the Malay Peninsula to do so. In 1895, Johor promulgated a Constitution (Undang-Undang Tubuh Kerajaan Johor) , being the first s…
The Travels of Law
I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many points of analogy between the state of that country after the fall of the Mogul power, and the state of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire. In one respect the analogy is very striking. As there were in Europe then, so there are in India …
Textual Trajectories
This article discusses the Undang-undang tubuh negeri Johor of 1895 (the Constitution of Johor 1895), a document that for many represents the birth of the ‘modern state’ in the Malay Peninsula. It introduces a reading of the Constitution in the context of other texts produced by and for the state of Johor during Sultan Abu Bakar's reign, including portraits commissioned throughout his lifetime, the texts of treaties that changed his status from T…
The Pursuit of the Perak Regalia
Islamic law changed radically in the last century and a half. It was codified and limited to the domain of personal and family law in almost all majority and minority Muslim states. The argument of this article is that this remarkable change in Islamic law began in the colonial state. Islamic law, as it functions within postcolonial Muslim states, is a product of negotiations between colonial and local elites over law, religion, culture, ethnicit…
The Travels of Law
I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many points of analogy between the state of that country after the fall of the Mogul power, and the state of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire. In one respect the analogy is very striking. As there were in Europe then, so there are in India …
The Pursuit of the Perak Regalia
Islamic law changed radically in the last century and a half. It was codified and limited to the domain of personal and family law in almost all majority and minority Muslim states. The argument of this article is that this remarkable change in Islamic law began in the colonial state. Islamic law, as it functions within postcolonial Muslim states, is a product of negotiations between colonial and local elites over law, religion, culture, ethnicit…
Circulations of Law
Bernard Cohn once called the imperial point of view the “view from the boat”. There were other boats as well. In 1893, the sovereign state of Johor adopted the Ottoman Medjelle (Meḏj̱elle-yi Aḥkām-i ̊ḥʿAdliyye , the civil code applied in the Ottoman Empire since 1877), being the only state among the Muslim sultanates of the Malay Peninsula to do so. In 1895, Johor promulgated a Constitution (Undang-Undang Tubuh Kerajaan Johor) , being the first s…
Citing Gender
Malaysian laws governing Islam have generally been understood to derive from common law precedents, and the system of Islamic courts to be modelled on its common law counterpart. Against the backdrop of a historical discussion on the ways in which personal status laws have come to govern the limited realm of family law, this article uses landmark cases involving women and Islam in Malaysian courts to trace new networks of training, scholarship an…
The New Global Politics of Religion’
This article explores key concepts in legal reasoning on the issue of ‘religious harmony’ in Malaysia. It argues that the concept of religious harmony belongs to the realm of public order, and public order is indexed to the legal logic of internal security. In Malaysian legal reasoning, the genealogy of these concepts runs through India and the United Kingdom. Arguments for religious freedom based upon normative commitments to liberal rights do n…
A Discussion of Wael Hallaq's Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
In his new book The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament , Wael B. Hallaq argues that “‘The Islamic State,’ judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both an impossibility and a contradiction in terms.” In developing this argument Hallaq draws upon his extensive body of work as a scholar of Islam, including most notably his Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (Cambridge Univer…
The Pursuit of the Perak Regalia
Islamic law changed radically in the last century and a half. It was codified and limited to the domain of personal and family law in almost all majority and minority Muslim states. The argument of this article is that this remarkable change in Islamic law began in the colonial state. Islamic law, as it functions within postcolonial Muslim states, is a product of negotiations between colonial and local elites over law, religion, culture, ethnicit…
Textual Trajectories
This article discusses the Undang-undang tubuh negeri Johor of 1895 (the Constitution of Johor 1895), a document that for many represents the birth of the ‘modern state’ in the Malay Peninsula. It introduces a reading of the Constitution in the context of other texts produced by and for the state of Johor during Sultan Abu Bakar's reign, including portraits commissioned throughout his lifetime, the texts of treaties that changed his status from T…
Misreading and Mobility in Constitutional Texts
This article explores the case of the adoption of Southeast Asia's first constitution (Johor, 1895) to articulate a fundamental problem of translation-the ambiguity and multiplicity of law's language. Closer attention to this problem helps raise a number of possibilities for rethinking the relationship between law, language, and mobility: firstly, polyphony, dissonance, and divergence in law's language reveals a plethora of political possibilitie…
A Discussion of Wael Hallaq's Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
In his new book The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament , Wael B. Hallaq argues that “‘The Islamic State,’ judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both an impossibility and a contradiction in terms.” In developing this argument Hallaq draws upon his extensive body of work as a scholar of Islam, including most notably his Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (Cambridge Univer…
Circulations of Law
Bernard Cohn once called the imperial point of view the “view from the boat”. There were other boats as well. In 1893, the sovereign state of Johor adopted the Ottoman Medjelle (Meḏj̱elle-yi Aḥkām-i ̊ḥʿAdliyye , the civil code applied in the Ottoman Empire since 1877), being the only state among the Muslim sultanates of the Malay Peninsula to do so. In 1895, Johor promulgated a Constitution (Undang-Undang Tubuh Kerajaan Johor) , being the first s…
The Travels of Law
I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many points of analogy between the state of that country after the fall of the Mogul power, and the state of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire. In one respect the analogy is very striking. As there were in Europe then, so there are in India …
The Politics of Islamic Law
Citing Gender
Malaysian laws governing Islam have generally been understood to derive from common law precedents, and the system of Islamic courts to be modelled on its common law counterpart. Against the backdrop of a historical discussion on the ways in which personal status laws have come to govern the limited realm of family law, this article uses landmark cases involving women and Islam in Malaysian courts to trace new networks of training, scholarship an…
The New Global Politics of Religion’
This article explores key concepts in legal reasoning on the issue of ‘religious harmony’ in Malaysia. It argues that the concept of religious harmony belongs to the realm of public order, and public order is indexed to the legal logic of internal security. In Malaysian legal reasoning, the genealogy of these concepts runs through India and the United Kingdom. Arguments for religious freedom based upon normative commitments to liberal rights do n…
Becoming Arab
This book by Sumit Mandal, published as part of the Asian Connections series from Cambridge University Press, contributes to a growing literature on inter-Asian connections, and intervenes in an increasingly contentious and important debate on indigeneity, Islam and Arabs in South-east Asia. For Mandal, the concept of ‘creole’, understood through the Malay word peranakan, makes visible a category of race that has long been constituted by a negoti…
Translating public order
Islam and the Rule of Justice
Islam and the Rule of Justice: Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture. By Lawrence Rosen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 279. $105 (cloth); $35 (paper and ebook
Challenging Cosmopolitanism
Coping with Defeat
Between Empires
Publication status: Published
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Islam (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works)