ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Afghanistan had more than 300 female judges presiding over judicial departments that ranged from women’s issues to criminal and terrorism-related cases. Several hundred judges have … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Dominion of Rights, the Resistance of Duties" (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 22, no. 3 (2022)), Adnan A. Zulfiqar (Rutgers Law School) … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Thank you, Guy Burak for joining us as guest blog editor in October. In case you missed his essays, here they are: Narrating Change Terminological Tensions Thank you! Follow Guy … Continue reading Thank you, Guy Burak!
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS As antigovernment protests on state-imposed rules of Islamic attire continue in Iran, historians have reminded that, prior to the establishment of the Islamic republic, "[w]omen … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2022), Marion Holmes Katz (New York University) "offers a new account of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Guy Burak [Muḥammad al-Timurtāshī] said in Minaḥ al-Ghaffār: “the sijill is the document (ḥujja) where the verdict (ḥukm) of the judge [is written].” But this is in their custom … Continue reading Terminological Tensions
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Around 50 Harvard affiliates gathered on the steps of Widener Library on Friday to stand in solidarity with women in Iran, where protests have erupted … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
By Guy Burak The increasingly systematic study of Ottoman Islam – or, perhaps, Islam in the Ottoman Empire – is arguably one of the greatest historiographical developments in Islamic studies … Continue reading Narrating Change
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: Student work opportunity: Research assistant, Widener Library, Harvard University. Call for Papers: The 22nd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Harvard University, November … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Guy Burak is the Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic and Jewish Studies at NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. He is the author of The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The … Continue reading Welcome to our October Guest Blogger: Guy Burak
