This conference is a follow-up to a series of conversations on the relations between historiography, ideology, and law that took place at the University of Helsinki in March 2018. Among … Continue reading Conference: Historiography/Ideology/Law II
Nahed Samour, Early Career Fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study The talk focuses on the judge's authority as it emanated from the judicial organization under the early Abbasids. It … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts
Members of this Lab are students interested in assessing the way Islamic law functions in contemporary and historical contexts, and interested in building or testing new apps for the same. … Continue reading Digital Islamic Law Lab
The program for the "Understanding Shari’a: Perfect Past, Imperfect Present" (USPPIP) end-of-project conference is available here. The conference is free to attend but registration is necessary. Please register by sending … Continue reading Conference: Uses of the Past in Islamic Law
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for a full professorship in “Islamic Law in the Past and Present," starting 1 October 2019. This professorship addresses religious jurisprudence (Fiqh), … Continue reading Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Law
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for a full professorship in Islamic Text Studies, starting 1 October 2019. The teaching and research focus of this professorship is on … Continue reading Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Text Studies
Jeremy Guillette, Digital Scholarship Facilitator, Harvard University will demonstrate and discuss established and emerging digital tools students of Islamic legal history and contemporary Islamic law may use in their research. … Continue reading Workshop :: Tools for Digital Islamic Law
The Department of History at Furman University is seeking candidates for an open-rank, tenure-track position in any field of the history of the Middle East and the Islamic world. The chronological … Continue reading Call for Applications: Furman University: Professor, Middle Eastern History
Location: Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Free and open to the public Details forthcoming Sponsors: The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Divinity School, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, … Continue reading CONFERENCE :: Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures: A Celebration of Professor William A. Graham
Brandeis University invites applications to fill the newly endowed Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies. This is a full-time faculty position to carry tenure in … Continue reading Call for Applications: Brandeis University: Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies
