PIL events

The central sources of religious doctrine and law in Islam are the Qurʾān and the hadith. Hadith is, by volume, the far greater of these two sources. While there has been an increasing production of sophisticated studies on Sunni hadith traditions, the study of Shiʿi hadith requires far greater attention than it has hitherto received. … Continue reading Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary: Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) & Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan) in Conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb

The central sources of religious doctrine and law in Islam are the Qurʾān and the hadith. Hadith is, by volume, the far greater of these two sources. While there has been an increasing production of sophisticated studies on Sunni hadith traditions, the study of Shiʿi hadith requires far greater attention than it has hitherto received. … Continue reading Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary: Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) & Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan) in Conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb

On Tuesday September 27, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST at Lewis 214, Sarah Bowen Savant, will lead a seminar on research in progress that uses the OpenITI corpus, which corpus contains more than 10,000 works and now exceeds 2 billion words in size, to examine the question: prior to the arrival of the printing press or … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab Workshop :: Ibn ʿAsākir and His History of Damascus: Named Entity Recognition and Text Reuse, Sarah Savant