Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS

  • Pundits have argued that the Taliban‘s strict interpretation of Islamic law, including its many restrictions on the rights of women, is making it harder for international aid to reach Afghanistan. For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.”
  • Pundits and scholars have called on Bangladesh to enact an Islamic banking law.
  • “Iran‘s athletics head has resigned after women competed at an event without wearing a headscarf.”
  • Following a TikTok video in which she tried pork meat, an Indonesian influencer was named a suspect in a blasphemy case and could face up to five years in prison.
  • On May 24, 2023, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation adopted a communique on the “Ongoing Israeli Attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

CASES AND FATWĀS

  • After Pakistan‘s Federal Shariat Court struck down key provisions of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, activists announced that they will appeal the court’s ruling to the Supreme Court.
  • “The Andhra Pradesh High Court [in India] made it clear that as per Islamic Law, the father is the legal guardian of the children and he taking his children from the house of his parents-in-law is not a kidnap.”

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PIL & Harvard Calendar:

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.
  • Position opening: Academic mentor and field researcher in Iraq, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich, rolling basis.
  • Position opening: Academic mentor for researcher in Mogadishu, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich.
  • Summer Program: Comparative Law, AALS, May 15-June 16, 2023.
  • The Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop: Law and Society Association, May 31, 2023.
  • Call for Articles: Bogazici Law Review (Turkey), May 31, 2023.
  • Online conference: IDHN 9th online conference, May 31, 2023.
  • Call for Applications: ASLH Student Research Colloquium, 2023, June 1, 2023.
  • MESA Mentoring Award, June 1, 2023.
  • MESA Jere L. Bacharach Service Award, June 1, 2023.
  • Annual meeting: Law & Society Association’s Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 1-4, 2023.
  • Call for Panel and Paper Proposals 2023: The American Society of Comparative Law, June 15, 2023.
  • Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, June 16, 2023.
  • MESA Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards, July 1, 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.
  • MESA Undergraduate Education Award, August 1, 2023.
  • MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize, August 15, 2023.
  • 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.

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