A place where scholars gather around to discuss and debate new questions in Islamic law, virtually. For our series of Roundtables and Symposia, the Islamic Law Blog invites leading scholars and experts on Islamic law to debate new questions, cases, debates that arise all over the world. Their perspectives add nuanced views of multiple sides of the issues.
Below are the roundtables we have hosted so far, in reverse chronological order:
• 2022 Roundtable: The History of Islamic International Law (convened by Intisar Rabb & Umut Özsu) Islamic Law Blog (Dec. 2022) [Foreward] [Conclusion] [Webinar Video]
• 2021 Roundtable: On Islamic Legal Genres (convened by Necmettin Kizilkaya & Hakki Arslan), Islamic Law Blog (Dec. 2021)
[Monthly Lecture Summaries] [Webinar Videos]
• 2020 Roundtable: Islamic Legal History and Historiography (convened by Intisar Rabb & Mariam Sheibani), Islamic Law Blog (Dec. 2020–Feb. 2021) [Essays] [Webinar Video]
• 2020 Special Roundtable on Covid 19: Pandemics in Islamic Law and History (convened by staff editors), Islamic Law Blog (May 2020) [Essays]
• 2019 Roundtable: al-Muwaṭṭaʾ by Mālik b. Anas, A New Translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition, ed. Mohammad Fadel and Connell Monette (PIL/Harvard University Press 2019) (convened by Intisar Rabb & Dana Lee), Islamic Law Blog (Dec. 2019)
[Essays] [Webinar Video, pt. 1] [Webinar Video, pt. 2]
• 2019 Special Roundtable: Tunisian Inheritance Law Reform (convened by Katarzyna Sidło and staff editors), Islamic Law Blog (May 2019) [Select Essays]
• 2018 Roundtable: Islamic Family Law in the UK: Akhter v. Khan (July 2018) (convened with staff editors), Islamic Law Blog (Aug. 2018) [Essays]
By Ezieddin Elmahjub Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, is poised to revolutionize how we approach and interact with Islamic jurisprudence. However, the varied … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: From Manuscripts to Digital Corpus: Structuring Islamic Data Sources for the Future of AI Jurisprudence
By Intisar Rabb This essay tests the latest AI models with questions of Islamic law research to see whether they can live up to their promise of providing reliable, accurate, … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: The Book and AI, Part 2: Testing AI Research Agents for Islamic Law
By Mairaj Syed If harnessed effectively, the introduction of LLMs has the potential to transform research in Islamic legal studies because of its unique ability to allow computers to go … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Knowledge, LLMs, and Open Source Communities in Islamic Legal Scholarship
By Intisar Rabb & Mairaj Syed The invention of the wheel, the printing press, and the internet itself swept over the world in torrents that shaped human interaction with each … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: The Book and AI: How Artificial Intelligence is and is not Changing Islamic Law
By Philippe Gelez The Treaty of Berlin of July 1878 gave the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy an international mandate to resolve the agrarian question and modernize the administration. In the terms of … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Adaptation of the 1858 Ottoman Land Code in Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian Rule (1878-1918)
By Milena B. Methodieva The Ottoman Imperial Land Code of 1858 was one of the major pieces of legislation produced during the Tanzimat (1839-1876), the period of sweeping reforms in … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: The Ottoman Land Code in Bulgaria: Selective Interpretations
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By Jelena Radovanović In the cold early months of 1880, rumors spread that the government of the young Serbian Principality was preparing a law that would once and for all … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Legal Translation between Empires: The Case of Çiftlik in Serbia
By Fatma Gül Karagöz* In 1831, Halil Bey and his brothers sold a plot of land in Attica to Count Baggiari, an Italian, therefore at that time a subject of … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: When Ottoman Land Law became Greek Law: The case of a land sale in Attica
By Fatma Gül Karagöz* What happens to land and property relations when a new administration obtains the dominion of a territory? I became interested in this question a couple of … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States
By Intisar Rabb and Umut Özsu, with contributions from Hadi Qazwini On November 1, 2022, Professors Intisar Rabb (Harvard University) and Umut Özsu (Carleton University) convened a live Roundtable webinar that … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: History of Islamic International Law: “Looking Back and Looking Forward: Conclusion to the Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law”
