Name: Tenth Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Aga Khan Centre in London, International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, May 19-21, 2022
Start: 2022-05-19T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-05-22T23:59:59-04:00

January 2022

Call for Applications: PIL–LC Research Fellowship Application, 2022-2023

January 31, 2022

In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for an inaugural 2022-2023 PIL–LC Research Fellowship (due: January 31, 2022). This newly offered fellowship is designed to provide an intellectual home to promising young scholars in Islamic … Continue reading Call for Applications: PIL–LC Research Fellowship Application, 2022-2023

Seminar: Islamic Judgeship, Sectarian Narratives, and the Medieval Legal Genre of “Judicial Protocols (Adab al-Qāḍī),” Princeton University, January 31, 2022 @ 12:00 – 1:20 pm

January 31, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm

Topic: NES Seminar Series: Islamic Judgeship, Sectarian Narratives, and the Medieval Legal Genre of “Judicial Protocols (Adab al-Qāḍī)” Speaker: Raha Rafii, University of Exeter Respondent: Intisar Rabb, Harvard University Time: … Continue reading Seminar: Islamic Judgeship, Sectarian Narratives, and the Medieval Legal Genre of “Judicial Protocols (Adab al-Qāḍī),” Princeton University, January 31, 2022 @ 12:00 – 1:20 pm

February 2022

Webinar: “Inheritance versus Personal Status: Shifting National Strategies in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia,” by Dr. Hedayat Heikal, February 8, 2022 @ 12:00 – 1:00 pm

February 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Dr. Hedayat Heikal will speak about inheritance and personal status laws in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia in a presentation titled … Continue reading Webinar: “Inheritance versus Personal Status: Shifting National Strategies in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia,” by Dr. Hedayat Heikal, February 8, 2022 @ 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Call for Papers: Computational contributions to the Social and Cultural History of the Islamicate World, Berlin, 12-17 September 2022

February 14, 2022

From the organizers: The digital has become an integral part of contemporary human experience across the globe as well as our research practices to the extent that it has lost … Continue reading Call for Papers: Computational contributions to the Social and Cultural History of the Islamicate World, Berlin, 12-17 September 2022

March 2022

Request for Proposals: Ruby on Rails/React Developer

March 4, 2022

SHARIAsource is a portal for Islamic law and data science tools that offers a window onto the digital world of Islamic legal studies. Its growing set of data and digital tools enable researchers to better explore and access a growing set of sources in this area, in ways meaningful to particular research inquiries and to … Continue reading Request for Proposals: Ruby on Rails/React Developer

Islamic Law Speaker Series: Prof. Issam Eido, Program in Islamic Law, March 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

March 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join us for the Program in Islamic Law's Islamic Law Speaker Series! Prof. Issam Eido (Vanderbilt University) will present "Pre-Canonical Islamic Legal Canons: An Analysis of Early Hanafi Literature." Eido … Continue reading Islamic Law Speaker Series: Prof. Issam Eido, Program in Islamic Law, March 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Research Associate: The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History

March 31, 2022

The Emmy Noether project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) undertakes a study of the development of the Islamic world through a series of computational analyses of a corpus … Continue reading Research Associate: The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History

Call for Applications: Data Science Fellow

March 31, 2022

Harvard Law School’s Program in Islamic Law is seeking a Data Science Fellow to work on various apps in the SHARIAsource Lab, a Harvard initiative designed to deploy data science tools on historical Islamic sources. The Fellow will be based at Harvard Law School, with opportunities to collaborate with various departments and partners—including the Harvard … Continue reading Call for Applications: Data Science Fellow

April 2022

Panel: Hadith Legacy: The Content and the Social Network of Hadith in Islamic Intellectual History, Syracuse University, April 6, 2022 @ 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

April 6, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Hadith, the first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and deeds, is one of the two major sources for the Muslims apart from the Qur’an. This panel will present two … Continue reading Panel: Hadith Legacy: The Content and the Social Network of Hadith in Islamic Intellectual History, Syracuse University, April 6, 2022 @ 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

May 2022

Tenth Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Aga Khan Centre in London, International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, May 19-21, 2022

May 19, 2022 - May 22, 2022

The Society for Islamic Legal Studies holds a conference on Islamic law every three years. The 2021 conference has been postponed to 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will … Continue reading Tenth Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Aga Khan Centre in London, International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, May 19-21, 2022