- The recording of the 4th Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN) Conference is now available online. The presents include Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu Dhabi): Handwritten-Text-Recognition for Arabic Script: A Case Study in Ottoman Turkish; Sofia Tsourlaki (SOAS University of London): When digital forms of information become a reliable source of academic research; Ken Chitwood (Freie Universität Berlin): The #AmericasMuslimsMap: Using Digital Visualization to Help Expand our Notion of “Global Islam”’ and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam and Marjan Moosavi (University of Maryland): A Comparative Quantitative Analysis of the Concept of “Love” in Hafez’s Ghazals and Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
- In “Sharia Maqashid Urgency In Management of Handling Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia” (International Law & Law of the Muslim World 1, no. 7 (2020)), Rida Hesti Ratnassari (STIE, Indonesia) finds, through a literature review and other “documentation studies,” that Indonesia’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has not been fully compliant with maqāsid al-sharī’a, the main objectives of Islamic law.