Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP

On Islamic Law

• In “Fundamentals Of Contract Law In Islamic Law and Afghanistan Civil Law” (Shariahlex: Journal of Islamic Law and Legal Studies 1, no. 1 (2024)), Habiburrahman Rizapoor (Badakhsan University) “discuss[es] Sharia contracts, their definitions, types, permitted agreements, [and] prohibited agreements” in the context of Afghanistan.
• In “The Relationship Of Islamic Business Ethics With Muamalah Fiqh And Islamic Alliance Law” (Zona Law and Public Administration Indonesia 1, no. 4 (2024)), Shofya Humaira Siti Salma (UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung) and others “discuss[] the relationship between Islamic business ethics, fiqh muamalah, and Islamic law of engagement in the context of Islamic business.”
• In “The Islamic Law-based design of regional head post-filling” (Legality: Jurnal Ilmiah Hukum 32, no. 1 (2024)),  Ahmad Siboy (Faculty of Law, University of Islam Malang, Indonesia) and others find “that Islam holds the principles that can be adopted into the constructions of the national law in the matter of regional head post-filling.”

On Islam and Data Science

• In “Empirical investigation of Islamic legal framework, crowd humanitarian funds and poverty reduction in selected Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)” (International Journal of Social Economics, March 21, 2024), Yusuff Jelili Amuda and Shafiqul Hassan (College of Law, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) report on “the results of the empirical investigation of the Shari’ah legal framework which serves as a basis of the crowd humanitarian fund and poverty reduction among members of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for improving living conditions of less privileged people in the society.”

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:

• Post-classical Islamic Philosophy Database Initiative (PIPDI) is a McGill Initiative aiming to “create the infrastructure that is needed for a systematic investigation of the vast but severely understudied corpus of Islamic philosophical texts dating from 1100-1900 CE.”

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PIL & Harvard Calendar:

• 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.

Calendar:

• Summer Course: “Reading Aljamiado Mansucripts,” Mediterranean Studies Summer Skills Seminar, August 12-15, 2024 via Teams (application deadline: April 15, 2024).
• Call for Submissions: Berkeley Law Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, 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.
• Conference: The 2024 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award Presentation and Conference, May 16-17, 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.