SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In “The Status of Music in Islamic Law: Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī’s (d. 974/1567) Treatise Against Recreation in its Polemical Context” (Islamic Law and Society, March 6, 2024), Dr. Fitzroy Morrissey (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford) examines an Islamic legal treatise that “argues for the impermissibility of most musical activities on the basis of the Qurʾan and Hadith, the consensus of the ʿulamāʾ (particularly from his Shāfiʿī school), and the incompatibility of recreation (lahw) and piety.”
- In “The Concept of Restorative Justice in Islamic Criminal Law: Alternative Dispute Settlement Based on Justice” (KnowledgeE, January 5, 2024), Syariful Alam (University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Malang, Indonesia)
and others “analyze the concept of restorative justice in the context of Islamic criminal law and identify its potential use as a more just and recovery-oriented dispute resolution method.” - In “Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in terms of Islamic Law: a Comparative Study of Indonesia and Germany” (Jambura Law Review 6, no. 1 (2024)), Muhamad Nazar (Faculty of Law, Universitas Haluoleo, Indonesia) and others, using the cases of Germany and Indonesia, examine “the socio-cultural context which causes society’s reactions and the implementation of government regulations regarding same-sex marriage to be different.”
- In “The Practice Of Identity Politics In North Sumatra: Analysis Of Siyasah And Islamic Law” (Pena Justisia: Media Komunikasi Dan Kajian Hukum 23, no. 1 (2024)), Hikmatiar Harahap (Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia) and others examine “the practice of identity politics in the 2018 North Sumatra Governor Election . . . based on the study and approach of Siyasah and Islamic Law.”
On Islam and Data Science
- In “How Turkey Replaced the Ottoman Language” (New Lines Magazine, August 18, 2023), Sara Tor describes Akis: Ottoman Transcription Tool, an AI-based language tool that “aims to use AI to automatically transliterate any Ottoman text into modern Turkish in the space of a few seconds.”
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:
- Akis: Ottoman Transcription Tool “is carried out in cooperation with DH Lab and VERİM (Data Analytics Research and Application Center). Our aim is to develop recognition technologies that can transcribe Ottoman Turkish handwritten and printed works written in Arabic and Persian script into Latin script. Thus we want to make texts in Ottoman archives and libraries written in Ottoman Turkish more accessible to researchers and general users from different disciplines.”
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
PIL & Harvard Calendar:
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Umayyad Empire” with Andrew Marsham, Program in Islamic Law, May 14, 2024.
Calendar:
- 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.
- International Course on Legal Pluralism: Commission on Legal Pluralism, January 8-11, 2025 (deadline: 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.