Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP

On Islamic Law

• In Fierce Clutches of Waqf – A Deep Rooted Conspiracy of Hindu Property Seizure (BoiBondhu Publications, 2025), Prasun Maitra “deeply analyzes the impact of Waqf laws on the constitution and democratic framework of India. Set against the backdrop of India’s thousand-year-old heritage and culture, the book highlights how, even after independence, the Congress government implemented policies of Muslim appeasement, with the Waqf Act standing as a prime example.”
• In “Legislating the Progressive Arab Society: State Authority and Social Rights in the 1964 Interim Constitutions of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria” (Law and History Review, May 13, 2025), Relli Shechter (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) “article examines the 1964 interim constitutions of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria as markers of a two-decade-long shift in Arab constitutional design—moving from individual liberal rights toward a new regional social contract centered on social rights.”
• In a forthcoming issue of Comparative Constitutional Studies, M. Ibrahim (University of New South Wales) reviews Dawood Ahmed and Muhammad Zubair Abbasi, Democracy Under God: Constitutions, Islam and Human Rights in the Muslim World (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

On Islam and Data Science

• In “Artificial intelligence: A review of the philosophy of Islamic educational science” (Journal of Research in Instructional 5, no. 1) Ade Hastuty (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare, Indonesia) and others “explore the integration of AI within the context of Islamic education, focusing on the challenges and opportunities encountered.”

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 primary sources and archival collections around the world, online. We recently added new resources to this list:

• Law and Technology Resources for Legal Professionals provides “current, reliable, actionable, comprehensive law, technology and knowledge discovery resources for 29 years,” including on Islam and Islamic law.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Calendar:

• 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).
• Wallace Johnson First Book Program, June 27, 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).
• Summer School on Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies, September 1-4, 2025, Switzerland (Deadline: June 13, 2025).
• Call for Proposals: Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law’s Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today, McGill University, Canada, October 16-18, 2025 (Deadline: May 31, 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).
• Call for Papers: International Conference “Poetry and Knowledge,” University of Münster, November 20-22, 2025 (Deadline: June 1, 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.