Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP

On Islamic Law

• In “Legitimating Sultanic Rule in Arabic, Turkish and Persian—Late Mamluk Rulers as Authors of Religious Poetry” (in Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World, eds., Maribel Fierro et al. (Brill, 2024)), Christian Mauder (Free University of Berlin) “outlines the multilingual poetic production of . . . Mamluk Sultans, explores the religious and political significance of their writings, and sheds light on their reception by contemporaries and posterity.”
• In “Injustice Anywhere: A Comparative Law Analysis of Saudi Arabia’s Criminal Justice System” (UC Law SF International Law Review 47 (2024)), Cooper C. Millhouse “illuminates the goals Saudi Arabia’s justice system, inspects how those goals parallel the goals of other common law and civil law systems, and evaluates whether Saudi Arabia’s system is able to effectively accomplish its aims.”
• In “War Crimes from the Perspective of Islamic Law and International Law” (International Seminar of Islamic Studies, February 2024), Rajarif Syah Akbar Simatupang (Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara, Indonesia) and others argue that in Indonesia, as a conceptual matter, “Islamic law, national law and international law regulate the conditions of war. “
• In “The Hijriyah Calendar Perspective Islamic Law: What And How?” (Pena Justisia: Media Komunikasi Dan Kajian Hukum 22, no. 3 (2023)), Misbah Khusurur and others argue that the Islamic “calendar affects legal practices such as the determination of the start of Ramadan, family law, prayer times, and religious celebrations. However, there are differing opinions and challenges in harmonizing Islamic legal provisions based on the Hijri calendar with national positive law.”

On Islam and Data Science

• In “What determines the adoption of Islamic finance products in a non-Islamic country? Empirical evidence from Cameroonian small- and medium-sized enterprises” (Journal of Islamic Marketing, February 6, 2024), Ali Haruna and others “examine the adoption of Islamic finance products (murabaha, musharakah, mudarabah, salam, ijara, istisna and Qard Hassan) by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Cameroon, a non-Islamic Sub-Saharan African country.”

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:

• A Guide to Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies is a library webpage prepared by University Libraries at the University of Washington in St. Louis.  It provides a useful list of various digital projects on Islamic studies.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PIL & Harvard Calendar:

• 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.
• Lecture: From Ownership to Partnership: Rethinking the Theory of Marriage in Islamic Law with Havva Guney-Ruebenacker, Harvard Law School, April 17, 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.
• Workshop: ASLH Early Career Virtual Workshop, June 30, 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.