SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In “Sharia and Human Rights Law in the Constitutional Framework of Gulf States” (Human Rights Quarterly 46, no. 1 (2024)), Eleni Polymenopoulou (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) “discusses the extent to which the Sharia and human rights are intermingled in the constitutional architecture of Gulf countries[.]”
- In “An Appraisal of the Nature of Islamic Criminal Procedure: Whether Adversarial or Inquisitorial?” (Al-Qamar 7, no. 1 (2024)), Dr. Muhammad Ramzan Kasuri (Punjab Public Prosecution Department) and others examine the nature of Islamic legal procedure, asking whether it is “adversarial or inquisitorial while examining its salient features.”
- In “Blasphemy Laws in Contemporary Legal Systems” (International Journal of Human and Society 4, no. 1 (2024)),
On Islam and Data Science
- In “Integrated reporting, corporate governance, and financial sustainability in Islamic banking” (Growing Science 12, .no. 1 (2024)), Muhammad Yusuf and others, using “a pool of 173 studies,” find that the implementation of “value-centric strategies” has a positive affect on the “financial robustness of Islamic banks.”
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:
- Lane’s Arabic-English Lexicon “is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi’s Taj al-Aroos.”
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
*** Fellowship: Program in Islamic Law –Library of Congress Research Fellowship Application, 2024-2025, February 15, 2024 ***
PIL & Harvard Calendar:
- Student work opportunity: Research assistant, Widener Library, Harvard University.Islamic Law Speaker Series: “Creating a new Criminal Law: The Military-Administrative origins of Siyasa” with Mohammed Allehbi, Program in Islamic Law, February 13, 2024.
- Book talk: “Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire” with Nora Barakat, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, February 14, 2024.
- Fellowship: The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School, 2024-2025, February 15, 2024.Roundtable: Islamic Land Law, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, February 21, 2024.
- SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Program in Islamic Law, March 2, 2024.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate” with Youcef L. Soufi, Program in Islamic Law, March 5, 2024.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Transition of Ottoman Land Law: Theory and Practice between 16th-18th Centuries” with Fatma Gul Karagoz, Program in Islamic Law, April 9, 2024.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Umayyad Empire” with Andrew Marsham, Program in Islamic Law, May 14, 2024.
Global Calendar:
- Call for Nominations: Islamic Law and Society CRN of the Law and Society Association, February 9, 2024.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: “Creating a new Criminal Law: The Military-Administrative origins of Siyasa” with Mohammed Allehbi, Program in Islamic Law, February 13, 2024.
- Call for Papers: MESA 2024, February 15, 2024.
- Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Looking for Libya in Coptic-Arabic historiographical sources, February 21, 2024.
- Fellowship: Anthony Lester Fellowships, 2024-2025, Bard College, February 28, 2024.
- Book award: The Sharmin & Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, April 1, 2024.
- Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Partnership for Heritage. Documentation and heritage management for the protection of the Nafousa Mountains, April 17, 2024.
- Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Between Ṭarābulus and Aṭrābulus. The journey of the toponym and difficulties in determining its form, May 22, 2024.
- Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Surveying and documentation of the archaeological city of Barca (Al-Marj), June 26, 2024.
- Symposium on Copyright in Islamic Legal Tradition, Istanbul, June 28-29, 2024.
- Call for Papers: De Jure: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar’iah, June 2024.
- Search for Editor: International Journal of Middle East Studies, until an appointment is made.
- 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.
- Call for Papers: Special Section – Lifewriting Annual and Islam.
- Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press.