Jamal Jamil Ahmad Nasir CVO is a lawyer and the former minister of justice in Jordan. He is a specialist in the rights of women under Islamic law.
Nasir was admitted to the bar as a barrister of Lincoln's Inn. In 1955 he received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, for a thesis on the subject of "The doctrine of Kafa'a according to the early Islamic authorities and modern practice, with a critical edition of the Zaidi MS Al-mir'at al-mubayyina lil nazir ma huwa al-haqq fi mas'alat al-kafa'a". [1] He is the former minister of justice in Jordan. He has written two books on aspects of Islamic law formerly poorly covered in the English language. [2]