Ebooks and Research Papers

Islamic Banking and the Sabbath Pond Test: A Re-Evaluation through Classical Islamic Economic Sources
A research paper re-examining modern Islamic banking through classical Islamic economic sources and the Sabbath-pond test of form versus substance.

Perbankan Islam dan Ujian Kolam Sabat: Satu Penilaian Semula melalui Sumber-Sumber Ekonomi Islam Klasik
Kertas penyelidikan yang menilai semula perbankan Islam moden melalui sumber ekonomi Islam klasik dan Ujian Kolam Sabat antara bentuk dan hakikat.

المصرفية الإسلامية واختبار حوض السبت: إعادة تقييم في ضوء المصادر الاقتصادية الإسلامية الكلاسيكية
ورقة بحثية تعيد تقييم المصرفية الإسلامية الحديثة عبر المصادر الاقتصادية الإسلامية الكلاسيكية واختبار حوض السبت بين الشكل والجوهر.

Dulley Shah’s Mice: From Physical Shell to Mental Bondage
A research paper re-examining Dulley Shah’s 'mice' through Asma Sherazi’s social critique and Imam Al-Ghazali’s spiritual psychology.

دولے شاہ کے چوہے: جسمانی خول سے ذہنی غلامی تک
دولے شاہ کے چوہوں کے تاریخی و سماجی المیے، عاصمہ شیرازی کی تنقید، اور امام غزالی کے روحانی نفسیاتی فریم ورک پر مبنی ایک تحقیقی مقالہ۔

Grounded or Silent: Citation-Faithful Legal Question Answering for Pakistani Law
PakLegalQA — the first citation-grounded question-answering benchmark for Pakistani law — and a refusal-calibration evaluation of a deployed grounded-or-refuse legal AI system.

The Sabbath Pond and the Superpower: Form Without Substance in the Stated Aims and Recorded Outcomes of the United States–Iran War of 2026
Sabbath Pond Test III: the form-versus-substance test from the author's Islamic banking and anonymous-tribunals papers applied to a claim rather than a rule — the United States government's stated objectives, declared achievements and signed undertakings in the 2026 war with Iran, set against the verification, compliance and operational record through September 2026, and read alongside Ibn Khaldūn and Qur'an 3:140.

The Sabbath Pond in the Courtroom: Anonymous Tribunals, Form Without Substance, and the Right to Confront under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism (Punjab Amendment) Bill 2026
Sabbath Pond Test II: the form-versus-substance test from the author's Islamic banking paper applied to Section 21AAA of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 (anonymous judges, prosecutors, counsel and witnesses), against Pakistan's Constitution, its existing witness-protection law, comparative fair-trial jurisprudence and the classical Islamic law of testimony.
