SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- Simon Doubleday (Hofstra University) talked with Jerrilynn Dodds about her new book: Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia: Arts and Ambivalence (Arc Humanities Press, 2024).
- In “Codicology and the Transformation of Islamic Law: A First Assessment of the Tarjīḥāt al-bayyināt in the Princeton Garrett Collection” (Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, September 15, 2024), Tobias Scheunchen (University of Chicago) examines “summary-like lists labelled ‘tarjīḥāt al-bayyināt,'” arguing that “they served as a shorthand for legal practitioners familiar with evidentiary law and that their presence suggests a broader transformative process of readers’/legal practitioners’ relationship with codices of positive law at this critical moment in the history of Islamic law.”
- Elias G Saba (Grinnell College) reviews Youcef L. Soufi‘s (University of Toronto) The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th–13th Century Legal Debate (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
On Islam and Data Science
- In “Sextortion, Gender, and Digital Crime: A Socio-Legal Comparison between Positive and Islamic Law” (Jurnal Hukum dan Pranata Sosial 19, no. 1 (2024)) J.M. Muslimin (Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta) and others, using “normative and empirical legal research,” argue that “in Islamic law, sextortion can be categorized as a part of jarīmah (criminal act) with a punishment named ta’zīr, in which the government becomes the one who determines the type of punishment.”
FIELD GUIDE TO ISLAMIC LAW ONLINE: RECENT SOURCES
The Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is an ever-growing collection of links to hundreds of links to primary sources and archival collections around the world, online.We recently added new resources to this list:
- Manuscripts in Thuluth Script is a collection of manuscripts written in a special form of Arabic calligraphy, hosting 81 manuscripts that range from folios from painted manuscripts to copies of the Qur’ān.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
PIL & Harvard Calendar:
- Seminar: “Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Nahdlatul Ulama and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics” by Robert Hefner, Harvard University, October 7, 2024.
- Memorial Service: In Memoriam: Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, October 25, 2024.
- Conference: Islamic Finance Conference (IFC), Harvard University, October 25-26, 2024.
- Seminar: “Travel Writing and the Production of a Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia” by Daniel Majchrowicz, Harvard University, November 6, 2024.
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law Special Issue, January 13, 2025.
Calendar:
- Call for Proposals: Hot Topics Program, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, October 14, 2024.
- Conference: 2024 American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting, Texas A&M University School of Law, October 17-19, 2024 (Call for Submissions: October 15, 2024).
- Fellowship: Thomas C. Grey Fellowship, Stanford Law School, 2025-2026, October 15, 2024.
- Talk: “Unsettlements: History of Land Reclamation in British Mandate of Palestine” with Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Stanford University, October 28, 2024.
- Conference: Law, colonialism and gender in the Muslim world, December 19-20, 2024.
- Conference: Eleventh Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Queen Mary University, UK, May 8-10, 2025 (Paper proposals: October 31, 2024; Panel proposals: November 30, 2024).
- Conference: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 22-25, 2025 (Registration: January 3, 2025).
- Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2025.
- Search for Editor: International Journal of Middle East Studies, until an appointment is made.
- Internship opportunity: The Executive Office of the President, White House, various deadlines.
- Position opening: Academic mentor and field researcher in Iraq, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich, rolling basis.
- Position opening: Academic mentor for researcher in Mogadishu, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich.
- Call for Papers: Special Section – Lifewriting Annual and Islam.
- Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press.