The Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL) is a publication by the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies (CIMELS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in mid-2012, EJIMEL provides a forum for the discussion of legal issues as well as associated political, social, cultural and philosophical topics relating to the Middle East and Islamic world. The journal welcomes timely and original scholarship on Middle Eastern Law, Islamic law, and related topics. The Muslim world is rich in diversity and heritage, and the body of laws and legal norms in Islamic jurisdictions is huge. With due consideration of the plurality of thought, custom and application of law within Muslim-majority communities, the journal lays a special focus on the multifaceted relations between Islam and national and international law orders over the course of time and from different points of view. EJIMEL also aims to contribute to the on-going highly topical debates of regional and global interest in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, such as, e.g., Democratization, Family, Gender, Human Rights, Constitutional Law, and Islamic legal theory, and to highlight interdependencies of Middle Eastern law orders with other jurisdictions worldwide.

The Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL) is a publication by the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies (CIMELS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in mid-2012, EJIMEL provides a forum for the discussion of legal issues as well as ...