Journal Article

Ali, Shaheen Sardar, Jones, Justin and Shahid, Ayesha (2021) To register or not to register? Reflections on Muslim marriage practices in Britain. NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law & Social Research, 1 (10). pp. 41-66. ISSN 2246-7483.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2019) A step too far? the journey from “biological” to “societal” filiation in the child's right to name and identity in Islamic and International Law. Journal of Law and Religion, 34 (3). pp. 383-407. doi:10.1017/jlr.2019.44 ISSN 0748-0814.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2013) Authority and authenticity. Sharia councils, muslim women's rights and the English courts. Child & Family Law Quarterly, Volume 25 (Number 2). p. 113. ISSN 1358-8184 .

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2011) Teaching and learning Islamic Law in a globalised world : some reflections and perspectives. Journal of Legal Education, Vol.61 (No.2). pp. 206-230. ISSN 0022-2208.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2010) Cyberspace as emerging Muslim discursive space? Online Fatawa on women and gender relations and its impact on Muslim family law norms. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol.24 (No.3). pp. 338-360. doi:10.1093/lawfam/ebq008 ISSN 1360-9939.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Abubakar, Musa Usman (2010) Part 1 : Islamic finance techniques : the Sunni schools’ differing approaches. Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Vol.5 (No.26). pp. 308-311. ISSN 0269-2694.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Abubakar, Musa Usman (2010) Part 2 : Islamic finance techniques : the Sunni schools’ differing approaches. Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Vol.6 (No.27). pp. 425-426. ISSN 0269-2694.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Abubakar, Musa Usman (2010) Part 3 : Islamic finance techniques : the Sunni schools’ differing approaches. Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Vol.7 (No.28). pp. 368-371. ISSN 0269-2694.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2009) Resurrecting Siyar through Fatwas? (Re) constructing 'Islamic international law' in a post-(Iraq) invasion world. Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Vol.14 (No.1). pp. 115-144. doi:10.1093/jcsl/krp011 ISSN 1467-7954.

Baxi, Pratiksha, Rai, Shirin and Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2006) Legacies of common law : 'crimes of honour' in India and Pakistan. Third World Quarterly, Vol.27 (No.7). pp. 1239-1253. doi:10.1080/01436590600933404 ISSN 0143-6597.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2006) Rights of the child under Islamic Law and Laws of Pakistan : a thematic overview. Journal Of Islamic State Practices In International Law, 2 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1742-4941.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2005) The concept of Jihad in Islamic international law. Journal of Conflict & Security Law , 10 (3). pp. 321-343. doi:10.1093/jcsl/kri017

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2003) Right to freedom of religion versus right to equality in international human rights law : conflicting norms or hierarchical human rights? A case study of Pakistan. Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 21 . pp. 404-429. ISSN 1503-6480.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2002) Reforming the health sector in the NWFP : a nostalgic view from afar. Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD), 1 . ISSN 1467-0437 .

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2002) Testing the limits of family law reform in Pakistan : a critical analysis of Muslim family laws ordinance 1961. International Survey Of Family Law . pp. 317-335. ISSN 1384-623X.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2002) Who 'writes' the budget : a 'close-Up' of the politics of 'development' projects : implications for health care delivery, democracy and good governance towards a human rights based development approach. Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD), 1 . ISSN 1467-0437 .

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2002) The 'brass tacks' of institution-based private practice : myths and reality. Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD), 1 . ISSN 1467-0437 .

Book Item

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Yousaf, Faqir Asfundyar (2022) Islamic Law, Social Justice and Injustices : the case for Islamic Welfare systems. In: Adelman, S. and Paliwala, A., (eds.) Beyond Law and Development. Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780203745298

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2021) Pakistan : challenges and prospects. In: Yassari, Nadjma and Foblets, Marie-Claire, (eds.) Normativity and Diversity in Family Law. GSCL, 57 . Springer, pp. 51-73. ISBN 9783030831059

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2021) To register or not to register? Reflections on Muslim marriage practices in Britain. In: Ademi, C. and Rohe, M., (eds.) Jahrbuch für islamische Rechtswissenschaft. München: Verlag C.H.BECK, pp. 87-108. ISBN 9783406754661

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2019) The paradox of rights through the lens of Muslim women's rights in family law. In: Boele-Woelki, Katharina and Martiny, Dieter, (eds.) Plurality and Diversity of Family Relations in Europe. European Family Law, 45 . Intersentia, pp. 89-100. ISBN 9781780688176

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2019) Coming Home? Legal developments relating to transgender communities and implications for Muslim Family law. In: Rehman, Javaid and Shahid, Ayesha and Foster, Steve, (eds.) The Asian Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. The Asian Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, 3 . Brill, pp. 3-17. ISBN 9789004401716

Foblets, Marie-Claire, Graziadei, Michele, Renteln, Alison Dundes, Kazmi, Arjumand Bano and Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2017) Autonomous aspirations? Re-reading the CEDAW drafting process and examining Muslim women's contributions. In: Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies. Routledge, pp. 264-280.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2017) Evolving conceptions of children’s rights : some reflections on 'Muslim States’ Engagement with the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child’. In: Yassari, Nadjma and Moller, Lena-Maria and Gallala-Arndt, Imen, (eds.) Parental Care and Best Interest of the Child in Muslim Countries. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, pp. 285-324. ISBN 9789462651739

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2016) Contextualising family-law reform and plural legalities in postcolonial Pakistan. In: Yassari , Nadjma , (ed.) Changing God’s Law : the dynamics of Middle Eastern family law. Islamic Law in Context . Farnham: Ashgate Publishers , pp. 34-67. ISBN 9781472464958

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Kazmi, Arjumand Bano (2016) Autonomous aspirations? Re-reading the CEDAW drafting process and examining Muslim Women’s Contribution. In: Foblets, Marie-Claire and Dundes-Renteln, Alison and Graziade, Michele , (eds.) (Not) Outside my culture? Paradoxes of Personal Autonomy. UNSPECIFIED.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2012) From ratification to implementation : ‘domesticating’ CEDAW in state, government and society. A case study of Pakistan. In: Hellum, A. and Aasen, H. S., (eds.) The Added Value of CEDAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2010) Systematically closed, cognitively open? A critical analysis of transformative processes in Islamic law and Muslim state practice. In: Christoffersen , Lisbet and Iverson, H. R. and Petersen, H. and Warburg, M., (eds.) Religion in the 21st century : challenges and transformations. Farnham, Surrey [U.K.] ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 119-140. ISBN 9786612545245

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) Interpretative Strategies for Women’s Human Rights in a Plural Legal Framework : exploring Judicial and State Responses to Hudood laws in Pakistan. In: Hellum, Anne and Stewart, J. and Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Tsanga, Amy, (eds.) Human rights, plural legalities, and gendered realities : paths are made by walking. North-south legal perspective series (No4). Harare : Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, University of Zimbabwe with Weaver Press. ISBN 9781779220622

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) Interpretative strategies for women’s human rights in a plural legal framework : exploring judicial and state responses to Hudood laws in Pakistan. In: Hellum, Anne and Stewart, J. and Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Tsanga, Amy, (eds.) Human rights, plural legalities, and gendered realities : paths are made by walking. North-south legal perspective series (No4). Harare : Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, University of Zimbabwe with Weaver Press. ISBN 9781779220622

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) Introduction. In: Hellum, Anne and Stewart, J. and Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Tsanga, Amy, (eds.) Human rights, plural legalities, and gendered realities : paths are made by walking. North-south legal perspective series (No4). Harare : Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, University of Zimbabwe with Weaver Press. ISBN 9781779220622

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) Religious pluralism, human rights, and Muslim citizenship in Europe : some preliminary reflections on an evolving methodology for consensus. In: Loenen, T. and Goldschmidt, J. E., (eds.) Religious pluralism and human rights in Europe : where to draw the line? Antwerpen : Intersentia. ISBN 9789050956420

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) Where is the toilet? Getting down basics in accessing women's rights. In: Hellum, Anne and Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Stewart, J. and Tsanga, A., (eds.) Human Rights, Plural Legalities and Gendered Realities: Paths are Made by Walking. North-South legal perspectives series (4). Harare: Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, University of Zimbabwe with Weaver Pres. ISBN 9781779220622

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) Women, law and empowerment : securing equal rights for women in the workplace. (a case-study of women and employment in Pakistan). In: Crick, P., (ed.) Our freedoms : a decade's reflection on the advancement of human rights. London: International Bar Association. ISBN 9780948711671

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) A comparative perspective of the convention on the rights of the child and the principles of Islamic Law : law reform and children's rights in Muslim jurisdictions. In: UNICEF, , (ed.) Protecting the world's children : impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in diverse legal systems. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521875134

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) The twain doth meet! A preliminary exploration of the theory and practice of as-Siyar and international law in the contemporary world. In: Rehman, Javaid and Breau, Susan Carolyn, (eds.) Religion, human rights and international law : a critical examination of Islamic state practices. Studies in religion, secular beliefs, and human rights, 6 . Leiden ; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publisher. ISBN 9789047420873

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2006) Part 1: Conceptual framework. In: Conceptualising Islamic law, CEDAW, and women's human rights in plural legal settings : a comparative analysis of application of CEDAW in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. New Delhi: UNIFEM-South Asia Regional Office, p. 7. ISBN 9781932827576

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2006) Part III : Conclusion. In: Ali, Shaheen Sardar, (ed.) Conceptualising Islamic law, CEDAW, and women's human rights in plural legal settings : a comparative analysis of application of CEDAW in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. New Delhi: UNIFEM-South Asia Regional Office, p. 182. ISBN 9781932827576

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2006) "Sigh of the Oppressed"? "Islamisation" of laws in Pakistan under Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal : the case of the North West Frontier Province. In: Cotran, Eugene , (ed.) Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern law. Vol. 10, 2003/2004. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004144446

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2004) Alternate dispute resolution mechanisms in Pakistan. In: Yasin, Mohammad and Banur, Tariq , (eds.) The dispensation of justice in Pakistan. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 019579799X

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2002) Women's rights, CEDAW and international human rights debates : toward empowerment? In: Parpart, Jane L. and Shirin, M. Rai and Staudt, Kathleen , (eds.) Rethinking empowerment : gender and development in a global/local world. Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation. . London: Routledge . ISBN 9780415277693

Working or Discussion Paper

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2012) Overlapping discursive terrains of culture, law and women’s rights : an exploratory study on legal pluralism at play in Pakistan. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Warwick School of Law Research Paper (Number 2012/09).

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2012) Resurrecting Siyar through Fatwas? (Re) constructing ‘Islamic international law’ in a post-(Iraq) invasion world. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Warwick School of Law Research Paper (Number 2012/8).

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Rehman, Javaid (2012) The concept of Jihad in Islamic international law. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Warwick School of Law Research Paper (Number 2012/10).

Book

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2016) Modern challenges to Islamic law. Law in Context . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107033382

Hellum, Anne and Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Griffiths, Anne M. O., eds. (2011) From transnational relations to transnational laws : Northern European laws at the crossroads. Law, justice and power series . Farnham : Ashgate. ISBN 9781409418962

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2008) Disability, human rights and re-distributive justice : some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people. London ; New York : Routledge. ISBN 9780415407137

Hellum, Anne and Stewart, J. and Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Tsanga, Amy, eds. (2007) Human rights, plural legalities, and gendered realities : paths are made by walking. North-south legal perspective series (No.4). Harare : Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, University of Zimbabwe with Weaver Press. ISBN 9781779220622

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2006) Conceptualising Islamic law, CEDAW, and women's human rights in plural legal settings : a comparative analysis of application of CEDAW in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. New Delhi: UNIFEM-South Asia Regional Office. ISBN 9781932827576

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Rehman, Javaid (2001) Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities of Pakistan : constitutional and legal perspectives. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series, (84). Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 9780700711598

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2000) Gender and human rights in Islam and international law : equal before Allah, unequal before man? The Hague : Boston: Kluwer Law International. ISBN 9789041112682

Ali, Shaheen Sardar and Jamil, Baela (1995) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Islamic Law and Pakistan Legislation : a comparative study. Peshawar: Educational Computing Services & Publishers.

Ali, Shaheen Sardar (1994) A comparative study of the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, Islamic law and the laws of Pakistan. Peshawar: Educational Computing Services for Radda Barnen.