SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In “The Formative and Classical Administration of Islamic Criminal Justice Revisited: A Historiographical Analysis” (History Compass), former Program in Islamic Law Fellow Mohammed Allehbi (Oxford Center for Islamic Studies) explores the historiography of “alternative sources on [the] administration of criminal justice: Egyptian papyri, administrative manuals and investiture diplomas, nawāzil (legal responses and rulings for new cases), Cairo Geniza, and criminal reports found in historical chronicles” in order to “propose new methodological pathways for future research in this field.” [login required]
- In “A Theory of Religious Sovereignty: Private Law Disputes and State-Religion Relations in Bangladesh and Pakistan” (PhD dissertation), Syed Muhammad Faisal Kamal (University of Toronto) “examines how private law disputes in Bangladesh and Pakistan have served as sites for the conceptualization of state-religion relations.”
- In “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness: Can Money Laundering be Sharia-Compliant?” (Journal of Financial Crime), Abdulrazak Alenazi (American University of Sharjah) and others “create a conceptual framework for the Islamic perspective on money-laundering (ML) activities.” [login required]
On Islam and Data Science
- In Blockchain for Financial Governance in Malaysia and Singapore: Transforming Regulatory and Shariah Compliance to Drive Financial Inclusion (Palgrave Macmillan), Ming Sen Thong (Universiti Malaya) “provides a comprehensive understanding of the potential impact of blockchain technology on financial compliance and inclusion in Malaysia and Singapore…focusing on three key areas: Regulatory Compliance, Shariah Compliance in Islamic Finance, and Financial Inclusion.”
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:
- IRCICA Farabi Digital Library contains “copies of the Holy Quran, calligraphic works, maps, yearbooks, periodicals, early printed books and historical photographs,” including “chronicles that list historical events by title and date, original sources on the history of the Muslim world, palace records such as calendars and war reports, complete sets of newspapers and journals…[and over] 70,000 photographs.”
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Calendar:
- 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.