SHARIASOURCE LUNCH TALK :: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF LEGAL PATCHWORKING (TALFĪQ)

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

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 as an impious and capricious endeavor aimed at cutting corners. However, jurists have used this practice in ways that have had tremendous social impact, both … Continue reading SHARIASOURCE LUNCH TALK :: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF LEGAL PATCHWORKING (TALFĪQ)

SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Between Legal Conservatism and Legal Change: Fault Lines in Ayyūbid Damascus

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School This paper explores the tensions between conservative and innovative strains in Islamic law in twelfth-century Ayyūbid Damascus. The newly restored refugee capital of Damascus inherited the Shāfiʿī traditions of both Khurāsān and Iraq, which had developed autonomously throughout the tenth and eleventh centuries. While formal attribution … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Between Legal Conservatism and Legal Change: Fault Lines in Ayyūbid Damascus

SHARIAsource Film Screening – Study Break :: A Separation

By email request

Come to the film screening of the 2011 movie A Separation—about marriage, divorce, crime, and regret—directed by Oscar Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (for The Salesman, 2017). A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film to do so. It also won the Golden Globe for Best … Continue reading SHARIAsource Film Screening – Study Break :: A Separation

Muwaṭṭaʾ Book Launch & Workshop: The Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall

Muwaṭṭaʾ Book Launch & Workshop Dec 2019 | Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall Following an online symposium in the new Journal in Islamic Law on the ideas that followed from the early Islamic law treatise, Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (by Mālik b. Anas in the 8th century), a select panel of scholars will bring the written ideas into conversation with one another in a workshop … Continue reading Muwaṭṭaʾ Book Launch & Workshop: The Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of the Journal of Islamic Law, November 18, 2022

The special issue for the Journal of Islamic Law invites papers that explore encounters between Islamic law and other legal traditions from the 18th through mid-20th centuries. Scholarship on encounters mostly focuses on colonial history, presenting a defeating view of shari’a, seen as having “died” against the intruding forces of colonialism. Indeed, European colonialism greatly … Continue reading Call for Submissions: Special Issue of the Journal of Islamic Law, November 18, 2022

SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Harvard Law School, March 4, 2023 @ 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

On Saturday March 4, 2023 at 11:00AM-4:00PM US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event. Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our efforts together to finally … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Harvard Law School, March 4, 2023 @ 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Program in Islamic Law, March 2, 2024 @ 12:00 – 4:00 pm

On March 2 from 12-4pm US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall and via Zoom, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event . Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Program in Islamic Law, March 2, 2024 @ 12:00 – 4:00 pm

Workshop: Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies, Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, November 8, 2024 @ 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Date: Friday, November 8, 2024, 2:30pm to 4:30pm Location: Lamont B30 Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Libraries present: Research Methods in Islamic Studies Workshop: Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies  Program: 2:30-2:45                        Emily Coolidge-Toker (Lamont) 2:45-3:00                         Kristine Greive (Houghton) 3:00-3:15                         Cem Tecimer (SHARIAsource) 3:15-3:30                         COFFEE BREAK 3:30-3:45                         Matthew Smith (Persian collection) 3:45:4:30                         Joanne Bloom & Amanda Steinberg (Fine Arts … Continue reading Workshop: Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies, Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, November 8, 2024 @ 2:30 – 4:30 pm

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