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3rd USPPIP Team Meeting and Workshop: Maslaha, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society

University of Bergen , Norway

A challenge for the Islamic Shari’a is that it should span from a religious ideal to a social and political reality. Islamic thinkers have long discussed whether this should primarily take the form of a fixed set of rules to be applied “because God has said so”, or whether these rules reflect a divine intention … Continue reading 3rd USPPIP Team Meeting and Workshop: Maslaha, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society

ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Southeast Asian Model of Sharīʿa Law? The Evolution and Possibility in Southeast Asian countries

Mansurah Izzul Mohamed, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School will discuss her current research on how some Southeast Asian countries introduce and/or implement sharīʿa law practices. She will assess the history of the region and whether this model will hold up in the face of political, economic and human rights pressure from the wider … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Southeast Asian Model of Sharīʿa Law? The Evolution and Possibility in Southeast Asian countries

Application:: Comparing Constitutional Adjudication: A Summer School on Comparative Interpretation of European Constitutional Jurisprudence

Dimaro, Val di Sole, Trentino, Italy

Full details: Programme_of_the_2018_CoCoA_Summer_School 2018 Topic: “Islam in Constitutional Adjudication in Europe” Co.Co.A. Summer School is based on (i) Lectures by Guest Speakers, that are meant to provide the theoretical and comparative foundation of the topic; morning presentations are expected to cover more or less 50/60 minutes, followed by coffee break and discussion. In the afternoon, … Continue reading Application:: Comparing Constitutional Adjudication: A Summer School on Comparative Interpretation of European Constitutional Jurisprudence

ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Early Islamic political theory as it enjoyed currency among the scholarly classes alternated between two possibilities: legal functionalism and political anthropology.  Critical to our understanding of these intellectual trends and their conceptual contours is an understanding of a "theoretical turn" in early Islamic thought which created the preconditions for a theory of power, and the … Continue reading ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology

ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Gentleman and a Scholar: Profile of an Ottoman Judge in the Late Sixteenth Century

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Amir Toft's talk profiles the education and career of a judge who served for one year around 1580 as judge in the court of Üsküdar, one of the districts of Istanbul. His name and titles—Mevlana Ibrahim Çelebi Efendi el-Galatavi—are known to us only through their appearance in the court register for that year. Apart from … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Gentleman and a Scholar: Profile of an Ottoman Judge in the Late Sixteenth Century

ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Apocalypticism and the Mahdi in Early Islam

Mohammad Sagha, SHARIAsource Editor and Iran Project Coordinator at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will discuss Ibn al-Munādī’s Kitāb al-Malāḥim and sectarian identity in the ḥadīth corpus of Shīʿī and Sunnī law schools. The role and identity of the Mahdī in early Islamic thought is an important concept shared almost … Continue reading ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Apocalypticism and the Mahdi in Early Islam

5 Postdoctoral Fellowships from Forum Transregionale Studien :: Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East In Europe (EUME)

The research program EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST – THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME) will be continued. EUME invites applications for 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the academic year 2018/19 in Berlin. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2018. Please find the call for applications below or as PDF document attached or via the following link: … Continue reading 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships from Forum Transregionale Studien :: Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East In Europe (EUME)

Berbers and Moors: Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghreb

Berbers and Moors: Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghreb 18th-19th May 2018, UCL, London A workshop hosted by the University of Leicester and UCL and sponsored by the Society for Libyan Studies Organisers: Corisande Fenwick (UCL) and Andy Merrills (University of Leicester) Friday, Room 612 (6th floor), UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon … Continue reading Berbers and Moors: Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghreb

Workshop: Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems

Location: Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati (Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law) Coordinators: Said Arjomand (Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies), Nathan J. Brown (Institute of Middle East Studies) Programme: Final programme.pdf Description of the meeting Understanding the intellectual, sociological, and political aspects of law in the Middle East has been hampered … Continue reading Workshop: Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9–12, 2019. We invite session proposals on any … Continue reading Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies

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