SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In “The Transformation of Islamic Property and Evidentiary Law in Colonial-era Morocco: The Case of Shuf’a as Préemption” (Die Welt des Islams, July 31, 2024), Ari Schriber (Utrecht University) “argues that evidence and procedure are critical to understanding Islamic law’s encounter with the colonial state.”
- In “Nikah-Halala in India: Practice, Precept, and Perception” (Legal Transformation in Muslim Societies 1, no. 1 (2024)), Mohd Imran (Faculty of Shariah and Law, Villa College) “conceptualises the term ‘nikah-halala’ based on how it is practiced in India and seeks to examine the interpretations by the secular courts, common law scholars and ulema (Islamic scholars).”
- In “Taliban’s Ideology on Women: A Fundamental Problem of Afghanistan” (PhD diss., National American University, June 4, 2024), Sukumar Basu argues that the Taliban’s practices in Afghanistan are “not based on Islamic Law, instead are based on other cultural traditions and Islamic dogma.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.”
- Baudouin Dupret (Sciences Po Bordeaux, France) reviews Brian Wright‘s A Continuity of Sharī’a: Political Authority and Homicide in the Nineteenth Century (AUC Press, 2023) in the Arab Law Quarterly.
On Islam and Data Science
- In “How are Islamic banking products developed? Evidence from emerging country” (Cogent Economics & Finance 12, no. 1 (2024)), Faizi Faizi (Department of Islamic Economics, Indonesia), relying on semi-structured interviews with experts, finds that “[t]he success of Islamic banks in the competitive banking sector relies on their ability to strategically position themselves by continually innovating and developing products that meet the needs of their target customers.”
- In “Enforcement of Islamic Law in the Sharia State: Challenges and Obstacles of the Sharia Department” (AJIL: Aceh Journal of Islamic Law 1, no. 1 (2024)), Armida (IAIN Langsa, Aceh, Indonesia) and others, based on the field research they have conducted, explore the obstacles that prevent “the Sharia Department in Darul Hasanah District [from] be[ing] able to eliminate or minimize violations of Islamic law.”
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:
- Ummat is a Farsi periodical that can be accessed online through a webpage maintained by the Digital Library of the Middle East. The online collection comprises 90 issues of the periodical.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Calendar:
- Call for Submissions: Pedagogy Files in Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, September 1, 2024.
- Call for Papers: “Islamic Law and Social Movements,” 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), September 9, 2024.
- Call for Proposals: Hot Topics Program, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, October 14, 2024.
- Conference: Law, colonialism and gender in the Muslim world, December 19-20, 2024.
- Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2025.
- 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.