Iza Hussin is an academic at the University of Cambridge, who writes on Islamic law in colonial and post-colonial states.
The final two chapters used two Malay apostasy cases – that of Lina Joy and Nyonya Tahir – to pursue changing relations between sharia, society and the post-colonial nation-state.
[3] One reviewer praised it as "a work of unique critical sensibilities, setting the scene for future interdisciplinary research of colonial and postcolonial Islamic law".
[6] In 2019 she defended the poet Alfian Sa’at after he was attacked by Singapore's Education Minister Ong Ye Kung.
[7] In 2021 she signed a joint letter in solidarity with students at Boğaziçi University protesting against the Turkish government.