In the latest issue of Studia Islamica, Asma Afsaruddin’s article on “Jihād, Gender, and Religious Minorities in the Siyar Literature: The Diachronic View” compares five medieval works to highlight changing … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Medieval Islamic Legal Debates
Two recent journal articles explore how Islamic law is being defined, debated, and applied in Europe – both by Muslims and by courts. Maurits S. Berger’s “Understanding Sharia in the … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: European Muslims and Islamic Law
In this video, Sabine Schmidtke, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, sounds the call for work on the Islamic manuscript tradition, which is … Continue reading Schmidtke on the Islamic Manuscript Tradition
The Manuscripts of the Muslim World project recently made available digital copies of 208 manuscripts. This goal of this project is to provide digital editions of more than 500 manuscripts … Continue reading Online Resource :: Manuscripts of the Muslim World
The Program in Islamic Law congratulates Anwar Omeish, winner of the 2019 Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Islamic Studies for her thesis, “Toward the Modern Revolution: Frantz Fanon, Secularity, and the … Continue reading Former PIL Research Assistants Win Senior Thesis Awards
Each year, the Islamic Law and Society Collaborative Research Network (ILS-CRN) helps compose panels on Islamic law at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. This year’s roster … Continue reading Islamic Law at the 2019 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
A ban on face coverings in Sri Lanka following the Easter Sunday attacks has once again highlighted the issue of restrictions on religious freedoms in response to public safety concerns. … Continue reading In the News: Sri Lanka’s Emergency Law
Asifa Quraishi-Landes, who teaches both Islamic law and U.S. constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently interviewed by Wisconsin Public Television on how the media can play a … Continue reading Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: May 13th
Katarzyna Sidło (Center for Social and Economic Research) organized a PIL Forum Roundtable on the Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi's 2017 proposal to amend inheritance laws. She introduces the Roundtable … Continue reading Roundtable :: Tunisian Inheritance Law Reform
Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) takes a pragmatic approach that helps explain why Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi’s 2017 proposal to amend Tunisian inheritance laws has raised … Continue reading Thoughts on the Draft Tunisian Inheritance Reform Legislation
