- In her book review of Mohammed Fadel and Connell Monette’s translation of Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, Adday Hernández (ILC-CSIS) welcomes the translation and describes it as a work that will become “one of the main reference sources” in the field of Islamic legal studies.
- In her undergraduate thesis entitled “I Know How the Caged Bird Tweets: Online Dissent and Physical Repression in Saudi Arabia, 2010-2015,” Isabel Kendall (Harvard University) explores how Saudi Arabia stifles criticism on Twitter, a platform used by approximately 40% of the country.
- In his PhD dissertation thesis entitled “Beyond the Realm of Religion: The Idea of the Secular in Premodern Islam,” Dr. Rushain Abbasi (Harvard University) challenges the prevailing view among scholars and non-scholars that the secular versus religious dichotomy emerged only recently and as a result of the introduction of the concept of modern states into the Islamic world through his “excavation of the diverse and intricate ways in which the religious and secular interacted” in premodern Islam.
- Dr. Caitlyn Olson‘s (Harvard University) PhD thesis entitled “Creed, Belief, and the Common Folk: Disputes in the Early Modern Maghrib (9th/15th – 11th/17th c.)” explores how Muslim jurists in the early modern Maghrib approached the depth of requisite Islamic knowledge that the non-elite populace needs to possess.