Islam

Prof. Richard Nielsen writes for The Washington Post that while women in Saudi Arabia have been granted the authority to issue state-sanctioned Islamic legal rulings, this move will probably not improve women’s rights. “It is likely that the fatwas coming from female Salafi muftis will be just as restricting to women as those from their male counterparts,” writes Nielsen.

Prof. Richard Nielsen writes for The Washington Post about his view that the Islamic State does not believe in state sovereignty, and the difficulties this view poses for working with the group. Nielsen writes that the group’s existence, “poses a fundamental challenge to international order, not only to the people under its rule.”