Ahmad Atif Ahmad's research focus is medieval legal literature in Arabic, whether it hailed from Central Asia, Iran, Spain, or somewhere in between.  His work 'The Fatigue of the Sharia' (NYC: Palgrave, 2012) looks into the theoretical basis for debates on the nature of Islam's Sharia (is its essence reason, schools of legal and moral reasoning, or the example of the Prophet Muhammad's companions?) and imagining its destiny.   The book has been translated into Arabic (Beirut: the Arab Institute for Research and Publications, 2016).  Professor Ahmad also authored Islamic Law: Cases, Authorities, and Worldview (Bloomsbury, 2017), Pitfalls of Scholarship (NYC: Palgrave, 2016), Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law (Leiden: Brill, 2006) & co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law (2019), among other publications.