We are excited to share that PIL Visiting Fellow Mariam Sheibani has been named a 2019 Hurst Fellow! The J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History is a biennial … Continue reading Mariam Sheibani Named Hurst Fellow
Joseph Lowry, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, was interviewed last month by FactCheck.org regarding a viral Facebook post which showed U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: Apr 22nd
Professor Matthew S. Erie (University of Oxford), an expert on Islamic law in China, just published an article in the Journal of Law and Religion on anti-sharīʿa sentiment in China … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Erie on Ḥalāl Food in China
On Apr 16, Marzieh Tofighi Darian gave a talk on "Judicial Review in Iran: Whose Guardian: Constitution or Sharia?" in which she examined the role of Iran's Guardian Council in … Continue reading Lunch Talk: Judicial Review in Iran
Philip Ostien is the editor of The Nigeria Papers, one of the Special Collections on SHARIAsource. The Nigeria Papers is a comprehensive collection of documentary materials and scholarly analysis on … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Ostien on Nigeria’s Sharīʿa Courts
Rutgers–Camden Magazine recently featured an interview with Prof. Adnan Zulfiqar. The interview discusses his article in the West Virginia Law Review on “Jurisdiction over Jihād: Islamic Law and the Duty … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: Apr 15
During last month's conference at the University of Tehran on "Criminal Law Development in Muslim-Majority Countries," Paul H. Robinson delivered the opening and closing remarks. His remarks were recently published … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Islamic Criminal Law Conference
On Apr 11, Felicitas Opwis of Georgetown University discussed “Al-Ghazālī and the Epistemology of Legal Analogy (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law.” The event was co-sponsored by the Program … Continue reading Lecture: Greek Logic and Islamic Law
On Apr 10, PIL Visiting Fellow Mariam Sheibani presented on “Influence, Borrowing, or Plagiarism? The Development of Legal Canons and Distinctions in Mamluk-era Islamic Law.” She discussed the extent to … Continue reading Lunch Talk: Borrowing and the Development of Islamic Legal Canons
Last week, Brunei enacted its long-standing draft criminal law bill that it first proposed in 2014 in an attempt to bring state control over crime, in a way that responds … Continue reading News Roundup: Brunei
