Islamic Law in the News Roundup

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ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS

  • The rise of Muslim vegetarians in recent years has sparked debate around the question of whether vegetarianism is permissible under Islamic law.
  • President Emmanuel Macron told reporters that France‘s dress code laws would be strictly applied in schools, which will ban the wearing of Islamic abayas.
  • “Under directives unveiled by New York City Mayor Eric Adams on August 29, mosques in [New York City] are now permitted to broadcast the call to prayer, known as adhan, on Fridays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., even without obtaining prior approval. The allowance applies irrespective of the noise regulations in the city’s neighborhoods.”

CASES AND FATWĀS

  • “The Supreme Court in Pakistan has ordered the government to respond to a complaint demanding lower courts stop allowing forced conversion and marriage of minority girls in the predominantly Muslim country.”
  • “Suhaizan Kaiat[, a Malaysian politician,] described the political fatwa issued by Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman Tan Sri Muhiyiddin Yassin that it is forbidden to vote for Unity Government party candidates, as purely using religion for political gains.”

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

  • Student work opportunity: Research assistant, Widener Library, Harvard University.
  • Talk: A Conversation on Justice with Guantánamo Bay Survivor Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Harvard Divinity School, September 18, 2023.

Global Calendar:

  • Postdoctoral researcher: Ottoman History, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway, September 12, 2023.
  • MESA 2023 Travel Grants for Graduate Students and Contingent/Precariously Employed, September 13, 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.
  • Conference: Celebrating the scholarship and teaching of Prof. Christopher Melchert, Pembroke College, Oxford, September 25, 2023.
  • Position opening: 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in History, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2024, September 29, 2023.
  • Call for Abstracts: Thematic Dossier on the Indian Ocean, September 30, 2023.
  • Position opening: Tenure-track assistant professor in 19th century Middle East history, Yale University, October 1, 2023.
  • Position opening: Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian history, Brown University, October 2, 2023.
  • Position opening: Associate or Full Indigenous and/or Black Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, October 10, 2023.
  • Call for Papers: Symposium on Copyright in Islamic Legal Tradition, ISAR Research Center, Istanbul, October 15, 2023.
  • Fall 2023 Works-in-Progress Workshop: Comparative Constitutional Law in the Global South, Columbia Law School, October 20-21, 2023.
  • Call for Papers: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society, October 24, 2023.
  • Fellowship: The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), 2024-25, November 1, 2023.
  • Conference: MESA’s 57th Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada, November 2-5, 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.
  • Symposium on Copyright in Islamic Legal Tradition, Istanbul, June 28-29, 2024.
  • Search for Editor: International Journal of Middle East Studies, until an appointment is made.
  • MEM Fellowship for Graduate Students of Color.
  • Scholarship: Islamic Scholarship Fund CAMBA Law Scholarship 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.
  • Position opening: Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Tennessee, Fall 2022. Deadline: until an appointment is made.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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