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:
• 2025 Roundtable: AI and Islamic law (convened by Intisar Rabb & Mairaj Syed) Islamic Law Blog (Mar. 2025) [Essays]
• 2024 Roundtable: Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States (convened by Fatma Gül Karagöz) Islamic Law Blog (Feb. 2024) [Essays] [Webinar Video]
• 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]
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On December 10, 2020, the Islamic Law Blog launched its Roundtable on Islamic Legal History & Historiography: Methods and Meaning in Islamic Law, edited by Intisar Rabb (Editor-in-Chief) and Mariam … Continue reading Roundtable on Islamic Legal History and Historiography: Week in Review
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On December 10, 2020, the Islamic Law Blog launched its Roundtable on Islamic Legal History & Historiography: Methods and Meaning in Islamic Law, edited by Intisar Rabb (Editor-in-Chief) and Mariam … Continue reading Roundtable on Islamic Legal History and Historiography: Week in Review
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