Rethinking Halal: Genealogy, Current Trends, and New Interpretations

Rethinking Halal reflects an anthropological revolution, that of the scientising, standardising, and normalising of social life through certification which is part of a process of ’positivisation’ that directly affected Islam and Islamic normativity.

Ayang Utriza Yakin, Ph.D. (2013), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, is Visiting Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ghent University and Postdoctoral and Research Fellow at Catholic University of Louvain and Sciences-Po Bordeaux.

Louis-Léon Christians, Ph.D. (2001), Université de Paris XI, is Professor of Law and Religion at Catholic University of Louvain. He has published more than 200 articles and chapters on Law and Religion in European Law, including Islamic norms before the European courts.