SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In “On the Unconstitutionality of Iran’s Current Constitution” (Lawfare, March 20, 2023), Ms. Constitution (pseudonym), describing Khomeini’s 1979 revolution as a “stolen revolution,” argues that “[i]t is time for social movements in Iran and Iranian elites to take a page from Khomeini’s book.”
- In “Embracing Love without Boundaries: Knots Tied in Sharia,” (The Voice, March 24, 2023), Juliana Twumwaa Obeng (BL candidate at Gambia Law School) observes that “[i]n general, interfaith marriages between Muslims and Christians are relatively common in The Gambia, and they are usually accepted as long as both partners respect each other’s faith and culture.”
- In “Protecting the innocent, the land, and the body: traditional sources of restraint on landmine use,” (Humanitarian Law & Policy, March 23, 2023), Henrique Garbino (Swedish Defence University) and Matthew Breay Bolton (Pace University) explore how traditional norms protect the land, stating, among others, that “The Taliban stated in 1998 that the use of landmines was ‘an un-Islamic and anti-human act’, which ‘would be punished in accordance with Islamic Law’ due to its indiscriminate effects on ‘thousands of innocent Afghans, including women and children.'”
- The IMF recently published a study by Inutu Lukonga titled “Monetary Policy Implications Central Bank Digital Currencies: Perspectives on Jurisdictions with Conventional and Islamic Banking Systems” (IMF, March 17, 2023).
- In “Freedom of Religion for Non-Muslims in Islam: A Pakistani Affair” (Law and Humanities Quarterly Reviews 5, no. 2 (2023)), Tasmiah Zaman (The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, UK) focuses “on the persecution of the Hindu minorities by way of forced conversions, refusal of the right of practicing their own religion and the recent halt of the construction of a temple in Islamabad,” all of which the author argues is contrary to Islamic law.
- In “Responsibilities of Marketplace Providers in Providing Non-Halal Information as Consumer Protection” (Law and Humanities Quarterly Reviews 2, no. 1 (2023)), Megawati Barthos (Borobudur University) explains efforts in Indonesia to label food as permissible under Islamic dietary law.
On Islam and Data Science
- In “Performances of leading Islamic finance markets prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic” (Heliyon 9, no. 1 (2023)), Edib Smolo (Effat University, Saudi Arabia) and others find that “as expected, the pandemic outbreak has increased the volatility across the sample markets, but it faded relatively soon, indicating that Islamic equities carry hedging features and offer portfolio diversification benefits to investors.”
FIELD GUIDE TO ISLAMIC LAW ONLINE: RECENT SOURCES
The 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:
- Dar al-Mandumah, an access-required compilation of Arabic-language secondary literature, “provides access to a series of databases with full-text content of Arabic scientific conferences, dissertations, and academic journals from 1921 to present day.”
- Cambridge Archive Editions “(formerly published by Cambridge University Press and now an imprint of East View Press) presents a wealth of historical reference materials from the 16th-20th centuries on the national heritage and political development of numerous countries,” including Muslim-majority ones.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
PIL & Harvard Calendar:
- Disaster Relief: Harvard Law School’s Turkey-Syria Earthquake Relief Efforts.
- Student work opportunity: Research assistant, Widener Library, Harvard University.
- Islam in Africa Initiative: Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, March 31, 2023.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series :: Elizabeth Lhost (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia, Harvard Law School, April 4, 2023.
- Seminar: “The Rule of Recognition and the Consolidation of the Maliki Madhhab in the 14th Century” by Mohammad Fadel, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, April 6, 2023.
- Islam in Africa Initiative: Caitlyn Bolton, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, April 7, 2023.
- Prize: The Class of 1955/Robert T. Coolidge Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Medieval Studies, April 7, 2023.
- Book talk: Roy Mottahedeh on “In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History,” Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program & Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, April 11, 2023.
- Prize: Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, April 14, 2023.
- Islam in Africa Initiative: Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, April 14, 2023.
- Islam in Africa Initiative: Zekeria Salem, Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, Harvard University, April 21, 2023.
- Workshop: Arabic Manuscript Workshop, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, April 24-28, 2023.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series :: Dilyara Agisheva (Harvard Law School), “The Entangled Legal Formations and the Russian annexation of Crimea in the 18th century,” Harvard Law School, May 2, 2023.
- Prize: Alwaleed Bin Talal Graduate Thesis Prize, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, May 19, 2023.
Global Calendar:
- Call to Sponsor a Member: for applicants affected by the earthquakes, MESA 2023.
- Internship opportunity: The Executive Office of the President, White House, various deadlines.
- Summer Program: Comparative Law, AALS, May 15-June 16, 2023.
- Conference: “Succession in Islamic Law,” Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, March 30-31, 2023.
- The Laura Bassi Scholarship, March 31, 2023.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Columbia University’s Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, 2023-2024, April 3, 2023.
- Colloquium: Samia Khatun, “Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal,” April 3, 2023.
- Colloquium: Sohini Sarah Pillai, “A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic,” April 4, 2023.
- Colloquium: Kashshaf Ghani, “Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia,” April 5, 2023.
- Colloquium: SherAli Tareen, “Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship,” April 6, 2023.
- Colloquium: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, “Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs,” April 7, 2023.
- Colloquium: Shankar Ayillath Nair, “Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through the Prism of the Persian Romance,” April 12, 2023.
- Prize Nomination: Biennial prize for best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500-1500 CE). The Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists, April 15, 2023.
- Call for Abstracts: Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative’s Conference, April 28, 2023.
- Conference: Policing Issues in the 21st Century, AALS, April 28, 2023.
- Global Academy Award, 2023-2024: The MESA Global Academy, May 1, 2023.
- Conference: Seventh Conference for Junior Researchers, The Law and Society Association at Stanford Law School (LSAS), May 5, 2023.
- Call for Papers: Cambridge International Law Journal Volume 12(2), May 12, 2023.
- Roundtable Discussion: The future of teaching in the Islamicate Digital Humanities, AKU-ISMC, London, May 15-16, 2023.
- 2023 Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Workshop: 22nd meeting of the Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Workshop, Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC, May 24-25, 2023.
- Call for Papers: Munich Summer Institute 2023 & Ph.D. Workshop, May 24-26, 2023.
- The Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop: Law and Society Association, May 31, 2023.
- Annual meeting: Law & Society Association’s Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 1-4, 2023.
- Summer Course: Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools In Islamic Studies, July 3-7, 2023, Central European University (application deadline: February 14, 2023).
- Conference: Interdisciplinary Conference on Islamic Law in the Crucible of the Modern State: Problems and Perspectives, University of Muenster, Germany, July 10-12, 2023.
- Wallace Johnson First Book Program, July 14, 2023.
- 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.
- Position opening: Associate Director, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and Muslim Chaplain, Macalester College (priority given to applications by August 1, 2022).
- Workshop: TraSIS (Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies) and the BCDSS (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies) Murtensee, August 30, 2023 – September 1, 2023.
- Call for Papers: Special Issue of Religions: “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid,” September 15, 2023.
- Fall 2023 Works-in-Progress Workshop: Comparative Constitutional Law in the Global South, Columbia Law School, October 20-21, 2023.
- Position opening: Adjunct Lecturer in Modern Middle East, Babson College.
- 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.
- MEM Fellowship for Graduate Students of Color.
- Scholarship: Islamic Scholarship Fund CAMBA Law Scholarship 2023.