The New Books Network (NBN) is seeking hosts for the podcast “New Books in Medieval Studies.” NBN hosts pick the books they cover and record the raw interviews. The NBN does all post-production (audio editing), publication, and promotion. Interested parties should contact Marshall Poe at [email protected]. The NBN is a network of 100 author-interview podcasts … Continue reading Seeking Podcast Hosts for New Books in Medieval Studies
From the organizers, including, among others, PIL book series editor Abigail Krasner Balbale: Dr Rocio Daga Portillo First session: Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 - 6.15 to 7.45 pm (CET) Last session: Monday, Feb. 07, 2022 - 6.15 to 7.45 pm (CET) This webinar is part of the "Webinar Initiative in Islamic Material Culture" jointly organized … Continue reading Lecture Series: A Society in Transition: Property and Law in Arabic Documents from Toledo (11th-14th Centuries) (Winter term 2021/22), Hamburg University, October 18, 2021 – February 7, 2022
From the organizers: What can legal disputes tell us about the history of Muslim worship? How did battles over mosques and endowments redraw the lines of sectarianism—and secularism—in South Asia? Following a series of court cases involving congregational sites from across the subcontinent, historian Sana Haroon (University of Massachusetts Boston) shows that mosques became sites … Continue reading Interdisciplinary Debates: The Mosques of Colonial South Asia by Sana Haroon, Dartmouth College, February 8, 2022 @ 12:15 – 1:15 pm
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
Social Media Internship Opportunity: The Muslim Women’s Giving Circle (MWGC) is looking for a social media intern to support its efforts. Launched in Ramadan 2020, the MWGC seeks to support and uplift women-led, women-run, women-focused work and causes through our collective giving power. Since our founding, we have donated approximately $50,000 to non-profits nationally. We … Continue reading Social Media Internship Opportunity: The Muslim Women’s Giving Circle (MWGC)
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
The Postdoc position is to be filled by April 2022 and available for a period of three years. The successful applicant will be part of a binational research team financed by the British-German AHRC-DFG-project „Interreligious Communication in and between the Latin-Christian and the Arabic-Islamic Sphere: Macro-theories and Micro-settings“. The project will be conducted between the … Continue reading Postdoctoral position opening: Christian-Muslim communication, University of Konstanz
Call for Applications: The MESA Global Academy The MESA Global Academy is an interdisciplinary initiative of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) designed to sustain essential research collaborations and knowledge production among MENA-focused academics by providing competitive scholarships to displaced scholars from the MENA region currently located in North America. The MESA Global … Continue reading Call for Applications: The MESA Global Academy 2022-2023
From the organizers: Applications due February 15, 2023. Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World invites applications for Visiting Fellowships for the 2023–2024 academic year. This fellowship provides opportunities for outstanding scholars and legal practitioners to undertake research, writing, and scholarly engagement on law and society in Muslim majority and minority … Continue reading Visiting Fellowships: Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School, 2023-2024
The Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is dedicated to promoting research and providing resources for the academic study of Islamic law. The Program in Islamic Law, is seeking a Managing Editor to assist with management of the submission and review pipeline. Our Publications promote cutting-edge scholarship on Islamic law. The Harvard Series on Islamic Law at PIL (a book series with … Continue reading Position opening: Managing Editor, Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School, May 19, 2023
