Islamic Law in the News Roundup

Posted on by

ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS

  • ” Ismail ibn Musa Menk, a Muslim scholar in Zimbabwe whose online videos have a big international viewership” recently asked his followers, “You know why they call it Bitcoin?” and responded, “It bit us all,” causing speculations as to whether he had dabbled in cryptocurrencies whose permissibility is a question Islamic scholars continue to debate. For more content and context on Islamic debates over the permissibility of using cryptocurrencies, consult the contributions by Raha Rafii here and here.
  • “Iran’s so-called ‘morality police’ [has] resum[ed] patrols to enforce the country’s strict hijab rules, after largely pausing its activities for 10 months following mass protests over the killing of 21-year-old Mahsa Amini last September while she was in police custody.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
  • “President Museveni has said [the Ugandan] government is considering applying Sharia principles while implementing the Parish Development Model program.”
  • “The Indian Union Muslim League has told the Law Commission that Sharia law is protected as a fundamental right in the Indian Constitution in their response to the Uniform Civil Code.”
  • “The India visit of Dr Mohammad Bin Abdulkarim al-Issa, Secretary-General of the World Muslim League, [to India] is aimed to communicate the message of moderation and interfaith unity.”
  • ” The Kuwaiti National Assembly on Tuesday urged Islamic countries to take legal actions to criminalize any kind of violation of the holy Quran, the official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”

CASES AND FATWĀS

  • “The transgender community and civil society have challenged the recent decision of the Federal Sharia Court (FSC) [of Pakistan] that struck down a law aimed at protecting transgender people’s rights and declared that some of its provisions were against Islamic injunctions.”

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PIL & Harvard Calendar:

Global Calendar:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Position opening: Postdoc at the Center for Social Concerns and the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion at the University of Notre Dame, July – September 2023. Deadline: until an appointment is made.
  • Scholarship: Iranian Studies, ARMACAD, July 31, 2023.
  • MESA Undergraduate Education Award, August 1, 2023.
  • Clerkship: Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, Eastern District of New York, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, August 1, 2023.
  • MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize, August 15, 2023.
  • Position opening: The Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University, August 16, 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 Abstracts: Comparative Law Perspectives on the Future of Constitutional Government in the Global World Order, AALS, September 1, 2023.
  • Travel Grant: MESA 2023, September 1, 2023.
  • Call for Papers: Legislation & Law of the Political Process, AALS, September 5, 2023.
  • Call for Papers: Special Issue of Religions: “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid,” September 15, 2023.
  • Call for Papers: Islamic Law & Constitutionalism, AALS Annual Meeting, September 15, 2023.
  • Position opening: Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian history, Brown University, October 2, 2023.
  • Fall 2023 Works-in-Progress Workshop: Comparative Constitutional Law in the Global South, Columbia Law School, October 20-21, 2023.
  • Prize: Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law, AALS, November 30, 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.
  • Position opening: Postdoctoral opportunity in History of Islam/Arabic Studies, Leiden University, February 1, 2024.
  • MEM Fellowship for Graduate Students of Color.
  • Scholarship: Islamic Scholarship Fund CAMBA Law Scholarship 2023.

Leave a Reply