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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP

On Islamic Law:

  • Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond (ed. Élise Franssen, Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2022) “gathers eight contributions investigating the readings of different authors [of Islamic law] from different points of view,” with an emphasis on scrutinizing the works these authors have read.
  • In “The Pandemic and the Decline of Indonesian Democracy: The Snare of Patronage and Clientelism of Local Democracy” (Asian Political Science Review 5, no. 2 (2021)), Muhammad Habibi (Badan Pengawas Pemilihan Umum Republik Indonesia) “research[es] how far theocratization has taken place in Indonesia during the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
  • In “Religion” (in The Cambridge Companion to the Constitution of India, Aparna Chandra et al eds., 2022), Jeffrey A. Redding (University of Melbourne Law School) discusses “Indian jurisprudence on religion and religious liberty.”
  • In “A Theory of a State? How Civil Law Ended Legal Pluralism in Modern Egypt” (Journal of Law & Religion 37, no. 1 (2022)), Samy A. Ayoub (University of Texas at Austin School of Law) argues that al-Sanhūrī, the father of Egypt’s modern civil code, “was a committed comparatist, not a reformer of Islamic law,” who drew significant inspiration from French law.

On Islam and Data Science:

  • In “Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa: Containment Measures as a Public Good” (Middle East Law and Governance, forthcoming), Kevin Koehler (Leiden University) and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (Leiden University), using “statistical analyses covering the 1 January – 30 November 2020 period using the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) and [their] own original data,” “develop a theoretical argument based on the political costs of different policy options” to explain the various containment measures adopted by MENA countries in response to the pandemic.

FIELD GUIDE TO ISLAMIC LAW ONLINE: RECENT SOURCES

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UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES

Global Calendar:

  • Position opening: Assistant Director for Research, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Deadline: April 1, 2022.
  • Webinar: AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Mr. Shivan Fazil and Dr. Bahar Baser, April 8, 2022.
  • Lecture on Comparative Law: “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism at SCOTUS and in Islamic Law” by Intisar Rabb, UC Berkeley Law, April 13, 2022.
  • Persian Language Summer School by Aspirantum, Yerevan (Armenia), July 3, 2022 – August 27, 2022. Deadline: April 21, 2022.
  • Call for Applications: 2022 Temple Bar Scholarship. Deadline: April 30, 2022.
  • Postdoctoral position opening: Christian-Muslim communication, University of Konstanz. Deadline: April 2022.
  • Call for Applications: The MESA Global Academy 2022-2023. Deadline: May 1, 2022.
  • Conference: Clinical Legal Education, May 9-13, 2022.
  • Webinar: AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis, Associate Professor of Anthropology, May 13, 2022.
  • Conference on Kurdish Family Law, Harnack House in Berlin, June 2-4, 2022.
  • Workshop: Intertextuality in Islamic and Jewish Law, June 21-23, 2022, University of Muenster.
  • Conference: The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022, June 25, 2022.
  • Society of Legal Scholars, 113th Annual Conference, King’s College London, September 6-9, 2022.
  • Conference: American Society for Legal History 2022, November 10-12, 2022.
  • Position opening: Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Tennessee, Fall 2022. Deadline: until an appointment is made.
  • Position opening: Columbia University, The Department of Art History and Archaeology Barbara Stoler Miller Assistant Professor, Indian and South Asian Art History. Deadline: until an appointment is made.
  • Call for Applications: Interdisciplinary Scholars of Places, Movement and Cultural Practices Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi. Deadline: until the position is filled.
  • Research Project: Historian/Researcher – Tudor Period/Elizabethan Era, and the Ottoman Empire during the Suleiman the Magnificent Period. Deadline: until the position is filled.
  • Call for Submissions: The UCLA School of Law’s Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (JINEL).
  • Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press.
  • Request for Open Submissions: AALS 2023 Annual Meeting, January 4-7, 2023. Submission deadlines vary.

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