Ahmed Fekry McGill

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim is assistant professor of Islamic law at McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies in Montreal, Canada. He holds a BA from al-Azhar University, an MA from the American University in Cairo, and a PhD in Islamic Studies from Georgetown University (2011). His research interests cover juristic discourse and court practice in both the formative period of Islamic law and the post-classical Mamluk and Ottoman periods. He has recently completed a book manuscript on the theory and practice of child custody in Ottoman Egypt and the role social perceptions of the family and the child’s best interests influenced judicial practice. He is currently working on two book manuscripts entitled, “Judicial Custom in Islamic Law: A Theory of Practice,” and “Child Adoption in Early Modern Egypt.” His last two projects have been supported with research grants from the Fonds de recherché du Quebec—Societe et Culture (FRQSC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He is the author of Pragmatism in Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2017).