Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP

On Islamic Law

• In “The Relevance of Justice Principles in Islamic Law to Address Social Inequality in the Digital Era” (Journal of the American Institute 2, no. 1 (2025)), Siti Ropiah (Haji Agus Salim Islamic College of Cikarang, Bekasi, Indonesia) argues that “[s]ocial inequality that occurs in the digital era is a significant global challenge, especially in the context of legal justice and resource distribution. The principle of justice in Islamic law (‘adl) offers a solution to address this injustice through a moral and welfare-based approach.”
• In “Legal Sanction in Islamic Law and International Law: A Comparative Examination” (Journal of Religion and the Contemporary World, January 25, 2025), Ali Arab and Mehdiy Narimany (Mofid University, Qom, Iran) argue that “[c]ontrary to the assumption that Islamic legal sanctions are limited to otherworldly punishments and are of no utility for the international legal system, the Islamic legal sanctions have various pedagogical; compensational; individually, socially, and internationally retributive; genetic and statuary; and worldly and otherworldly dimensions, each of which has many instances cited in Quranic verses and hadiths.”

On Islam and Data Science

• In “Optimizing Artificial Intelligence in Fiduciary Supervision Systems in Accordance with Islamic Legal Principles” (Petita: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu Hukum dan syariah 10, no. 1 (2025)), Wazin (UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten, Banten, Indonesia) and others “explore[] the optimization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in fiduciary supervision systems aligned with Islamic law principles.”

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:

• “Getting Started – Middle Eastern Studies” is a library guide prepared by Cai Fischietto (University of Massachusetts Amherst) that introduces “Middle Eastern studies resources available through the UMass Amherst Libraries and beyond.”

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PIL & Harvard Calendar:

• Prize: Doctoral Dissertation Prize, The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, May 16, 2025.
• Fellowship: May-Crane Fellowships, Harvard University 2025 (deadline to be announced).

Calendar:

• IISMM Seminar Series: “From Jerusalem to India: Endowments and Gender Influences,” IISMM, France, May 16, 2025.
• LSA 2025 Annual Meeting: Chicago, Illinois from May 22-25, 2025 (Early registration: December 3, 2024; registration: January 3, 2025).
• Call for Papers: “Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework,” ESIL IG, Paris, June 6-7, 2025 (deadline February 28, 2025).
• Prize: Phanor J. Eder Prize in Comparative Law, Younger Comparativists Committee, June 13, 2025.
• 2025 Hurst Summer Institute: Legal History, University of Wisconsin Law School, June 15-27, 2025.
• Arabic Intensive Program: SABLA 2025 Summer Arabic Intensive Program, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., June 16 – July 17, 2025 (Deadline June 2, 2025).
• Conference: Law, Culture, and Humanities 27th Annual Conference, Georgetown University, June 17-18, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 31, 2025).
• IISMM Seminar Series: “Waqfs, women and circles of power,” IISMM, France (remote option), June 20, 2025.
• Conference: The Middle Ages in the Modern World, London Strand Campus, King’s College London, June 24-26, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 13, 2025).
• Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series, American Society for Legal History, June 30, 2025.
• Workshop: “From Classical ML to AI in Arabic and Islamic Studies,” Hamburg University, July 1-4, 2025 (Deadline: April 30, 2025).
• Summer Language Intensive Program: Istanbul University Institute for Islamic Studies, July 7 – August 8, 2025.
• Prize: Colin B. Picker Prize, Younger Comparativists Committee, August 15, 2025.
• Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, August 18-29, 2025 (Application deadline: May 5, 2025).
• Faculty Fellow: Faculty Fellow in Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 2025-2026, September 1, 2025 (Deadline: March 24, 2025).
• Conference: 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, University of Pittsburgh, November 5-7, 2025.
• Call for Papers: ASLH 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, November 13-15, 2025 (Deadline: March 25, 2025).
• Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2025 (Proposal deadline: February 13, 2025).
• Position opening: Senior Lecturer in Law, History, and Society, Vanderbilt University, 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.