On the occasion of his stepping down as the first Academic Director of ISIM and ISIM Chair at Leiden University, and to mark his resumption of full-time research, Brinkley Messick honours one of... Show moreOn the occasion of his stepping down as the first Academic Director of ISIM and ISIM Chair at Leiden University, and to mark his resumption of full-time research, Brinkley Messick honours one of our leading international scholars of the shari'a, Muhammad Khalid Masud. Messick has been closely involved in Masud's research programme 'Social Construction of Shari'a' , most recently in the workshop 'Anthropologies of Islamic Law' (see pg. 9). Show less