Michael Goodyear's (University of Michigan Law School) "Heaven or Earth: The Hagia Sophia Re-Conversion, Turkish and International Law, and Universal Religious Sites" (UCLA Journal of Islamic Law and Near Eastern … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Thank you, Adnan Zulfiqar, for joining us as guest blog editor throughout October. In case you missed any of his blog posts, here they are: Collective Duties (farḍ kifāya) in … Continue reading Thank you, Adnan Zulfiqar!
International outcry continued against French President Macron’s statement describing Islam as a “religion in crisis” and announcement that his government would soon advance a bill that would allow for greater … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) will be holding its next and virtual annual meeting between January 5-9, 2021. For 2021's annual meeting, the AALS decided to offer participating … Continue reading Register for the 2021 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting: The Power of Words
By Adnan Zulfiqar This post is the fourth and last in a series of four posts on obligation, jihād, revolution and prisons. Over the past several years, there has been … Continue reading Prisons, Abolition and Islamic Legal Discourse
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In a recent statement, the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced that it would start receiving pilgrims from outside the country, as the Kingdom resumes its pilgrimage services in … Continue reading COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup
The 43rd annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture organized by Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law hosted our Editor-in-Chief, Intisar Rabb, with her presentation titled "Interpreting Islamic Law." The … Continue reading On Originalism and the Role of Legal Canons in Islamic Law
This post is part of the Digital Islamic Law Lab (DILL) series, in which a Harvard student analyzes a primary source of Islamic law, previously workshopped in the DIL Lab. Background In … Continue reading Ways for Muslims to Follow Islamic Law amid the Spanish Inquisition
The Field Guide to Digital Islamic Law, in the form of a Google document, is a collection of resource links and annotations to SHARIAsource and other Harvard resources, global online … Continue reading Field Guide to Digital Islamic Law Resources Roundup
The Fourth Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference will be held online on November 18, 2020. The event, which will run between 10:00 am and 12:30 pm (EDT), will feature four presentations … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup
