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Ahmed Fouad is a researcher in law and religion and a lecturer of Islamic law, legal history, and jurisprudence at The British University in Egypt. Fouad holds an LLB in Islamic Sharia and law from Al-Azhar University and an LLM in public law from Mansoura University in Egypt. In 2019, he obtained an LLM in law and religion from Emory University in the United States, where he was a Fulbright scholar. Additionally, he has been a visiting scholar at the Hamburg Institute of Law and Economics for the 2022 and 2024 summer terms. His research and teaching interests include jurisprudence, sociology of law, comparative religious law, law and religion, Islamic legal theory, and Islamic family law. His current research focus is on the dynamics of the triangular connection between Islamic jurisprudence, social norms, and legislation in Muslim majority countries. He is currently writing a PhD dissertation on Muslim jurists’ engagement with Aristotelian logic and how can such an engagement produces abstract determinants for modern Egyptian legal reasoning.