The Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) will be held at the George Washington University, Washington DC, November 16-17, 2017. This year’s theme for the annual meeting is Digital Scholarship and Middle … Continue reading MELA: Digital Scholarship and Middle East Librarianship
Speakers: Aslihan Bulut Library Editor ILSP: SHARIAsource Librarian and Program Coordinator for Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Harvard Law School Sharon Tai ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School Aslihan Bulut and … Continue reading MELA Presentation: SHARIAsource: The Online Portal for Academic Content and Context on Islamic Law
Speakers: Intisar A. Rabb Harvard Law School Sharon Tai SHARIAsource *You may bring your lunch or purchase lunch at the Institute’s Dining Hall from 12:00 noon. Please RSVP to [email protected].
Presenter: Monika Lindbekk This paper analyzes aspects of judicial activism in the field of Egyptian personal status law for Muslims. In a country where reform of the current personal status … Continue reading 2017 MESA: Judicial activism in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family law
This one-day workshop is held under the auspices of the USPPIP project (Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present) and will be hosted by the University of Exeter. The workshop will … Continue reading Governance and Violence in Islamic Law Workshop
Sharon Tai, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi, former MIT Media Lab Fellow, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
A panel to discuss Professor Intisar Rabb's soon-to-be released book co-edited with Abigail Krasner Balbale, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, composed in honor of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh.
Shady Nasser Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Professor Nasser teaches Arabic literature as well as Islamic Civilizations courses. He previous posting was as a University Lecturer … Continue reading Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications
Rodrigo Adem, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School; College Fellow, Harvard University Department of History
