By Intisar Rabb This essay is part of the Islamic Law Blog’s Roundtable on Islamic Legal History & Historiography, edited by Intisar Rabb (Editor-in-Chief) and Mariam Sheibani (Lead Blog Editor), and … Continue reading Islamic Legal Canons as Memes
"The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland (Roshan Institute-UMD) is offering a free, stipend-supported twelve-week online summer course on digital Islamicate paleography and codicology."
In a four-part podcast series entitled "Looking Back on Islamic Studies at Harvard," the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program (Harvard) reflects and on the past and present of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Turkish President Erdogan attended the funeral of Muhammed Emin Sarac, an Islamic scholar who provided Islamic education to pupils in Istanbul for more than six decades. Malaysian authorities announced an investigation … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
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Sadakat Kadri argues in the opinion piece entitled "For Muslims wary of the Covid vaccine: there's every religious reason not to be" (The Guardian, February 18, 2021) that "[s]uspicion of … Continue reading COVID-19 and Islamic Law Roundup
The Field Guide to Islamic Law Online, 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 Islamic Law Online
In "Cell-based influenza vaccine: current production, halal status assessment, and recommendations towards Islamic-compliant manufacturing" (Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (2020)) Nurul Nadiah Zulkarnain (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) and others "review[] and recommend[] some … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup
In "Civil Law Principles in Fiqh of Islamic Law" (Tematics Journal of Law 14, no. 12 (December 2020)), Ayub Mukhammadiev (The Military-Technical Institute of the National Guard of the Republic … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
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On December 10, 2020, the Islamic Law Blog launched its Roundtable on Islamic Legal History & Historiography: Methods and Meaning in Islamic Law, edited by Intisar Rabb (Editor-in-Chief) and Mariam … Continue reading Roundtable on Islamic Legal History and Historiography: Week in Review
The rejected plan for the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast via loudspeakers from Peterborough's (UK) mosque will be reconsidered, after it was revealed that the city council website … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
