This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980, Sadr was the most articulate thinker and a major political actor in the revival of Shi'i learning, which placed Najaf in Southern Iraq at its centre. Dr Chibli Mallat examines the intellectual development of Sadr and his companions who included Ruhullah al-Khumaini and assesses Sadr's innovative approaches to the study of law, economics and banking. The author convincingly demonstrates how Sadr's ideas and activities were influential in the rise of political Islam across the Middle East and played an important part in the Iranian revolution of 1979.
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Chibli Mallat
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Chibli Mallat (May 10, 1960) is a human rights lawyer and a former candidate for presidency in Lebanon.
Career
In his law practice, he is best known for bringing the case of Victims of Sabra and Shatila v. Ariel Sharon et al., under the law of universal jurisdiction in Belgium, where he won a judgment against the accused before a change in Belgian law removed the jurisdiction of the court. As a democratic activist, he was involved with the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein, even spending time in an Iranian jail after organizing international monitoring of the first free elections ever in Iraq, in May 1992. Mallat helped establish the Middle East regional office of Amnesty International in Beirut in 1999 for which his office has acted since as its legal counsel. He is a frequent op-ed contributor in newspapers ranging from the Nahar (Lebanon) to the New York Times, and has held research and teaching positions at Yale Law School, London University, Virginia Law School, the University of Lyon, the Library of Congress, the Saint Joseph University in Lebanon and the University of California Boalt School of Law. He spent one year at Princeton University where he was a Visiting Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School, Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Fellow in the University Center for Human Values, Fellow in the Program in International and Regional Studies and a Distinguished Visitor in the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice.
In 2007, he moved to Utah, He is presidential a professor at the law school at the University of Utah and EU Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at Saint Joseph's University in Lebanon. He was invited as Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 2011.
Academic publications
He is author or editor of over thirty books and his articles in English, French and Arabic have been published in academic journals around the world. His writings have appeared in over ten world languages, including Japanese, Turkish and Bahasa Indonesian.
