Weekend Scholarship Roundup

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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP

On Islamic Law

  • In “Thinking about the medieval state from a Moroccan perspective: Writing The Almoravid Maghrib” (ARC Humanities Press, February 16, 2024), Camilo Gómez-Rivas (University of California Santa Cruz), in elaborating how he authored his recent book, states that some of his motivating questions were: “Is the ninth century (the early Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad) really the Golden Age of Islam in terms of cultural production? Is it even so in terms of religion, theology, and sophisticated legal reasoning? Or was it, as in Spain, a high point of political unity preceding long periods of political fragmentation, but which were immensely vibrant in terms of cultural production?”
  • In “The Mechanisms and Impact of Islamic Generosity (Waqf) Behaviour in Islamic Social Finance Institution” (Journal Of Awqaf, Zakat & Hajj 1, no. 1 (2023)), Mohd Burhan Yusof (Jabatan Perdagangan, Politeknik Sultan Idris Shah (PSIS)) and others explore how the concept of generosity “contributes to the functioning and development of Islamic social finance institution[s].”
  • In “The challenges of LGBT people in the framework of Islamic law and human rights” (International Studies Journal, February 19, 2024) Mohadeseh Ghavami Pour Sereshkeh and Amirreza Mahmoudi conclude that “[h]uman rights are based on equality, while Islamic rights are based on moral and religious principles, which have a more practical and realistic view of LGBT rights.”

On Islam and Data Science

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:

  • mutūn: “The mutūn project looks to empower non-technical users by facilitating access both to thousands of digitized Arabic texts and to natural language processing tools specifically designed for Arabic. Building off of the pioneering work of the Open Islamic Texts Initiative (OpenITI) and the KITAB project in collecting and curating a meta-corpus of over 13,000 Arabic texts, mutūn will allow users to create their own subcorpora of digitized Arabic texts through an accessible platform.”

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PIL & Harvard Calendar:

  • SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Program in Islamic Law, March 2, 2024.
  • Roundtable on Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States, March 4, 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.
  • Talk: “Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, March 6, 2024.
  • Book talk: “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, March 6, 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.
  • Fellowship: Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program, April 15, 2024.
  • Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Umayyad Empire” with Andrew Marsham, Program in Islamic Law, May 14, 2024.

Global Calendar:

  • Award: Julien Mezey Dissertation Award Accepting Submissions, March 15, 2024.
  • Call for Panel Proposals: American Society for Legal History, March 15, 2024.
  • Conference: The other narratives of early Islam, Goethe-University Frankfurt, March 22-23, 2024.
  • Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century, March 25, 2024.
  • Book award: The Sharmin & Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, April 1, 2024.
  • Call for Proposals: The 5th Wallace Johnson First Book Mentoring Program, Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, April 1, 2024.
  • Call for Panel Proposals: Conference by Commission on Legal Pluralism and Universitas Indonesia, April 1, 2024.
  • Call for Proposals: Open Source Submissions Program, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, April 8, 2024.
  • Call for Proposals: Discussion Groups, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, April 8, 2024.
  • Summer Course: “Reading Aljamiado Mansucripts,” Mediterranean Studies Summer Skills Seminar, August 12-15, 2024 via Teams (application deadline: April 15, 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.
  • Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen (6th-9th/12th-15th c.), April 22, 2024.
  • MESA Scholarship: MESA Global Academy, 2024-2025, May 1, 2024.
  • Call for Proposals: Symposium, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, May 6, 2024.
  • Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study, May 20, 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.
  • Call for Papers: The Medieval Academy at 100, The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, March 20-22, 2025 (deadline: June 3, 2024).
  • Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: Mapping the Past, Imagining the Future: Heritage Politics in Ḥūthī Yemen, June 24, 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.
  • Call for Proposals: Hot Topics Program, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, October 14, 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.

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