About

Dr. al-Marakeby is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII). An Azharite scholar with extensive engagement in Western academia, he earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Edinburgh.

His areas of expertise include Islamic law and modernity, modern Islamic thought, decolonization theory, Islamic history, Muslim–Christian relations, and Islamic theology. Prior to joining UIII, he was awarded a visiting research fellowship at the American University in Cairo.

Dr. al-Marakeby has published widely in English, Arabic, and Turkish on topics such as Islamic law and women’s ownership of agricultural land, the higher objectives of Islamic law and modernity, the Islamic public sphere, and critical engagements with Wael Hallaq between East and West, in addition to other works on Muslim–Christian relations.

He has presented his research at numerous international institutions, including the Universities of California (USA), Leuven (Belgium), Edinburgh (UK), Exeter (UK), Nottingham (UK), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Bonn (Germany), among others.

His forthcoming monograph, Non-Reformists’ Reform: Decolonizing the History of Islamic Law in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, further reflects his ongoing contribution to the critical study of Islamic legal history.