A workshop organized by the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. To register, … Continue reading Workshop: Ibn Taymiyya and the Shi’a (Exeter, UK)
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents And God knows best Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions Ahmed Ragab Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard … Continue reading Lecture at Harvard: Scientific Expertise, Piety and Islamic Legal Opinions
Held in central London, this conference will raise key issues surrounding religious arbitration, the veil and gender segregation at schools and universities, including as part of the religious-Right's assault on … Continue reading Conference: Sharia, Segregation and Secularism
As part of the Centre of South Asian Studies seminar series, Dr. Ali Altaf Mian of Seattle University will be presenting on "Contesting Courts: Islamic Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial … Continue reading Cambridge Lecture: Islamic Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
The Yale Program in Iranian Studies presents: "Excavating Spirituality on the Silk Road: Sufism in Post-Soviet Central Asia" By Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell, Research Scholar in Law and Islamic Law, … Continue reading Yale Lecture: Sufism in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Brinkley Messick is Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. He was the Chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2004-2011; was … Continue reading Princeton Brown Bag Lunch Series: Sharia Ethnography
Author: Faiz Ahmed, Associate Professor of History, Brown University Moderator: Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School Respondent: Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in … Continue reading Lunch Talk :: Book Talk on Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard University Press, 2017)
Marion Katz , Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University Lecture: “Wives, Housework, and the Changing Boundary between Islamic Law and Ethics” Recent years have seen a … Continue reading Program in Islamic Law Lecture :: Marion Katz, “Wives, Housework, and the Changing Boundary between Islamic Law and Ethics”
The Iran Circle at Harvard presents a talk in Farsi on "Religious Minorities in Iran's Constitution, Civil Law and Criminal Law," by Prof. Houchang Chehabi. The Iranian Constitution recognizes four … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Religious Minorities in Iran’s Constitution
