Islamic Law Blog

Conference: The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900), University of Leiden, January 13–15, 2027
2026-06-20
Islamic Law, sharīʿa, is often seen as having been heavily influenced and crucially changed during two major transitional periods: from pre-colonial to colonial rule and from colonial to post-colonial rule, each viewed from different perspectives. The encounter between European colonialism and sharīʿa, which formed the backbone of pre-colonial legal systems, has had a profound impact … Continue reading Conference: Rupture or Continuity in Sharīʿa: (De)Colonizing Sharīʿa? International Conference, Centre for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkiye, June 9–11, 2027

Call for Papers: The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900), University of Leiden, June 20, 2026
2026-06-20

Conference: Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Chicago, June 17–18, 2026
2026-06-17 - 2026-06-18

Workshop: The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, June 8–9, 2026
2026-06-08 - 2026-06-09

Award: Global Dissertation Prize, American Society for Legal History, June 1, 2026
2026-06-01

Conference: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, May 28–31, 2026
2026-05-28 - 2026-05-31

Call for Participation: Digital Medieval Studies Institute, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 13, 2026
2026-05-13

Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, May 4, 2026
2026-05-04

Conference: 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, May 1–2, 2026
2026-05-01 - 2026-05-02

Language School: Persian Language Summer School, Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Yerevan, Armenia, May 1, 2026
2026-05-01

Conference: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 24–27, 2026
2026-04-24 - 2026-04-27

Conference: Humanities of AI—Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis, Johns Hopkins University, April 24-26, 2026
2026-04-24 - 2026-04-26

Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Djelemory Diabate, “Closing the Sufi Age: Authority, Finality, and Political Theology in Umar al-Futi Tal's Kitab Rimah,” April 20, 2026 @ 6:15pm
2026-04-20 18:15 - 19:30 (America/New_York)

Roundtable: Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, April 16, 2026
2026-04-16 12:00 - 13:30

Fellowship: MESA 2026–2027 Global Academy, April 16, 2026
2026-04-16

Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California), "The Islamic Secular," April 7, 2026 @ 12:30pm
2026-04-07 12:30 - 13:30

Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Amadu Kunateh, “Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive,” April 6, 2026 @ 6:15pm
2026-04-06 18:15 - 19:30

Workshop: The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond with Adrien de Jarmy, April 3, 2026
2026-04-03

Workshop: Manuscripts to Megabytes: Evolving Editorial Practices and Challenges in Arabic Manuscripts from the Premodern to the Digital Age with Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, April 2, 2026
2026-04-02 17:00 - 18:30

Workshop: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative), ﻿﻿April 2–3, 2026
2026-04-02 - 2026-04-03

Fellowship: Normativity and Citizens of Muslim-Majority Countries, University of Turin, April 9, 2026
2026-04-01 - 2026-04-09

Award: Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize, April 17, 2026
2026-04-01 - 2026-04-17

Fellowship: 2026 ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey, American Research Institute in Turkey, April 1, 2026
2026-04-01

Call for Papers: Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Program, American Society for Legal History, April 1, 2026
2026-04-01

Award: Alwaleed Bin Talal Doctoral Dissertation Prize, May 15, 2026
2026-03-30 - 2026-05-15

Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Cem Turkoz, “An Edifice of Super-Glosses: The Making of an Ottoman Tradition of Natural Philosophy, 1650–1800,” March 23, 2026 @ 6:15pm
2026-03-23 18:15 - 19:30

Conference: Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Amherst, MA, March 19–21, 2026
2026-03-19 - 2026-03-21

Islamic Law Speakers Series: Ihsan Yilmaz (Deakin University), "Sharia as Informal Law: Lived Experiences of Young Muslims in Western Societies," March 10, 2026 @ 12:30pm
2026-03-10 12:30 - 13:30

Presentation: Lutforahman Saeed—God's Law, Man's Rule: Debating Women's Right to Health from Sacred Texts to the Taliban, March 2, 2026
2026-03-02

Call for Nominations: American Society of Comparative Law Book Prize, March 1, 2026
2026-03-01
