Congratulations to Iman Masmoudi (JD ‘24), the recipient of the Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize for her paper “The Role of Notaries in the Practice of Islamic Law: ‘Udūl … Continue reading PIL Writing Prize Winner: Iman Masmoudi
Fellow Spotlight: Professor Issam Eido
This interview is part of our Fellow Spotlight series. This series features interviews with current and previous PIL Fellows, highlighting their work with the Program, their path getting here, and … Continue reading Fellow Spotlight: Professor Issam Eido
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In a special episode of Borderlines, a legal podcast by Berkeley Law, entitled "Interpreting MetaCanons," Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb "talk[s] about her leading research on … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Mariam Sheibani
This interview is part of our Fellow Spotlight series. This series features interviews with current and previous PIL Fellows, highlighting their work with the Program, their path getting here, and … Continue reading Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Mariam Sheibani
PIL Writing Prize Winner: Shayan Karbassi
Congratulations to Shayan Karbassi (JD ‘22), the recipient of the Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize for his paper "Pursuit of Supranational Authority: Constitutionalism and the Islamic Republic of Iran,” written under … Continue reading PIL Writing Prize Winner: Shayan Karbassi
“Faith in the Law”: Program in Islamic Law Featured in Harvard Law Today
For its Winter 2022 issue, Harvard Law Today, Harvard Law School's news bulletin, featured an article titled "Faith in the Law," exploring how various programs and faculty members at Harvard … Continue reading “Faith in the Law”: Program in Islamic Law Featured in Harvard Law Today
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Anna Piela (Northwestern University) argues that niqāb, the Islamic face … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Islam through Objects" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Anna Bigelow (ed.) (Stanford University) curates a collection of essays on objects in Islam and how these objects, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "The Textual Evolution of the Ottoman Şeyhülislams’ Fetvas: A Cross-Corpora Computational Analysis" (Der Islam 98, no. 2 (2021)), Bogac Ergene (The University of Vermont) and … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law
The United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Taliban's subsequent takeover of the country has brought, once again, Islam and Islamic law to the fore in recent news coverage, reports, … Continue reading Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law