SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law:
- In “Ijtihād Holds Supremacy in Islamic Law: Muslim Communities and the Evolution of Law” (Religions 13 (2022)), Abdulla Galadari (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi) argues that “it would not be unreasonable to argue that ‘ijtihād‘ has supremacy in Islamic law, giving some flexibility to Muslim communities in the evolution of such laws.”
- In “Maslahah Perspective on Husband Nusyuz in Islamic Law and Positive Law In Indonesia”
(Muqaranah 6 no. 1 (2022)), Jayusman Jayusman (Fakultas Syari’ah UIN Raden Intan Lampung) and others discuss the Qur’ānic concept of nusyuz or intra-familial disobedience. - In “Situating an Informal Funds Transfer System in Islamic Legal Theory: The Origin of Hawala Revisited” (Darulfunun Ilahiyat 33, no. 1 (2022)), Ali Ekber Cinar (Istanbul University) challenges the contention that hawāla, an informal funds transfer system, has an Islamic origin.
On Islam and Data Science:
- In “The performance of Islamic versus conventional stocks during the COVID-19 shock: Evidence from firm-level data” (Research in International Business and Finance 60 (2022)), Falik Shear (Faisalabad Business School, National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan) and Badar Nadeem Ashraf (School of Finance, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, 330013, China) “compare[] the performance of Shariah compliant equities with their non-Shariah compliant counterparts especially during the Covid-19 shock.”
FIELD GUIDE TO ISLAMIC LAW ONLINE: RECENT SOURCES
This Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is an ever-growing collection of links to hundreds of links to primary sources and archival collections around the world, online. We recently added new resources to this list:
- University of Indiana Islamic Manuscript Exhibition is a curation of several Islamic manuscript collections.
- Ejtaal contains a number of comparative dictionaries in English, Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Urdu, and Egyptian Arabic.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
Global Calendar:
- Karamah: Virtual Law and Leadership Summer Program 2022, July 14 – August 7, 2022.
- Call for Contributions: Special-Edition Journal, Pakistan, July 15, 2022.
- Call for Papers: The Perspective of the Countryside in the Medieval Arab-Islamic World, August 1, 2022.
- Position opening: Associate Director and Chief Curator, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, August 31, 2022.
- Society of Legal Scholars, 113th Annual Conference, King’s College London, September 6-9, 2022.
- Conference: Materiality, Rituals and the Senses in Shi‘i Islam, Georgia, October 19-21, 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.