Nahed Samour, Early Career Fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study The talk focuses on the judge's authority as it emanated from the judicial organization under the early Abbasids. It … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts
Jeremy Guillette, Digital Scholarship Facilitator, Harvard University will demonstrate and discuss established and emerging digital tools students of Islamic legal history and contemporary Islamic law may use in their research. … Continue reading Workshop :: Tools for Digital Islamic Law
Reasoning With God: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age A lecture and Q&A with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl Monday, October 1st @ 6:30 pm Wellesley College, Tishman Room Campus … Continue reading Lecture at Wellesley College: Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl
Khaled M. Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Islamic Law in an Age of Fear
Aaron Spevack, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School Talfīq--the juristic practice of combining differing legal opinions to resolve a new issue and thereby produce an unprecedented ruling--is often framed … Continue reading SHARIASOURCE LUNCH TALK :: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF LEGAL PATCHWORKING (TALFĪQ)
The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations is hosting Sharia in Europe? — In Anticipation of the ECtHR Ruling on the Molla Sali v … Continue reading Lecture: Aga Khan University: Sharia in Europe?
The aim of this exploratory and informal workshop is to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North … Continue reading Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
Author: Will Smiley, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire Moderator: Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Harvard University Respondents: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of … Continue reading Harvard Worldwide Week Event: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Book Talk on From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2018)
The 2nd Annual International Conference of the Asian Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, jointly organized by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and Brill-Nijhoff publishers, … Continue reading International Conference: Law, Gender, and Sexuality
(Free and Open to the Public) About the Symposium The University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Symposium is an endeavor of the Shiʿi Studies Group, established in 2010, to provide an … Continue reading UChicago Shi’i Studies Symposium
