The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of panels from the Association of American Law Schools's (AALS) 2025 Annual Meeting schedule that are related to Islamic law. … Continue reading Islamic Law at AALS 2024! (A PIL Guide)
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Syria's rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has dismissed the online controversy over videos showing him gesturing to a young woman to cover her hair before he … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (60, no. 1 (2024)), Tobias Scheunchen (PhD candidate, University of Chicago) … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Muhammad al-Marakeby Recently, Youshaa Patel, in his seminal study on tashabbuh (imitation), critiqued academics for overlooking the importance of embodied practices in shaping Muslim religiosity. He argues that contemporary … Continue reading Defining Femininity between Local and Global Islam: A Manuscript on Henna Application for Men
By SHARIAsource Lab* The SHARIAsource Courts & Canons (CnC) Annotation Suite leverages data science tools to explore questions in Islamic law and society historically through mapping the controversies and values … Continue reading Experiments in Mapping Islamic Legal Canons: Reports from the SHARIAsource Lab (Fall 2024)
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "The Taliban’s continued imposition of strict interpretations of Islamic law and Afghan culture has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on women and girls, the UN envoy … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Fatwās on Jihād from Premodern Morocco" (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 31 (2024)), Jocelyn Hendrickson (University of Alberta) "provides an Arabic critical edition of one section of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
By Muhammad al-Marakeby This essay aims to explore the concepts of taqlīd (following the legal opinions of earlier jurists) and ijtihād (independent legal reasoning) during the Ottoman period. Although numerous … Continue reading Is Independent Legal Reasoning Incompatible with Following Earlier Jurists? Rethinking the Claim of Jurists’ Disloyalty to Taqlīd
By SHARIAsource Lab* The SHARIAsource Courts & Canons (CnC) Annotation Suite leverages data science tools to explore questions in Islamic law and society historically through mapping the controversies and values … Continue reading Experiments in Annotating Islamic Legal Canons
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Iran has carried out an unprecedented number of amputations for theft over the past three years, a punishment based on [the state's strict interpretation of] … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
