The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is home to a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central … Continue reading Call for Applications: Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Assistant Curator, Islamic Art
Ordering the Anthropocene: Law & the Environment in the Indian Ocean World 4-5th October 2019 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA What can historians of law achieve from engaging with their colleagues … Continue reading Call for Papers: Law & Environment in the Indian Ocean World
The Department of History at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time visiting faculty position to teach 6 undergraduate courses in Middle Eastern and North African … Continue reading Call for Applications: College of the Holy Cross: Visiting Faculty Position, MENA History
Editing key texts of the Later Middle and Early Modern Periods of Islamicate Intellectual History This call for applications pursues a novel approach to one of the fundamental problems of … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Bonn: Fellowships for Editing Texts in Islamic Intellectual History
The History Department at Oklahoma State University invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in medieval Middle Eastern history, to be held for one year and renewable for a … Continue reading Call for Applications: Oklahoma State University: Post-Doc, Medieval Middle Eastern History
Book talk for Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew March (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Comments by Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto Faculty of Law). Modern Islamic … Continue reading Stanford Book Talk: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought
Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral International Conference Ashoka University, New Delhi 27-29 August 2019 in collaboration with InterAsia Program, Social Science Research … Continue reading Call for Papers: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a top Italian research institution based in the city of Trento. In the national evaluation of research excellence for the period 2010-2014 (ANVUR), FBK ranks … Continue reading Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships in Religion and Innovation
This panel brings together a number of papers that examine the legal, political, and social dynamics surrounding the invocation or engagement of the Islamic legal tradition in the contemporary world. … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Islamic Law and Society in Contemporary and Hybrid Legal Contexts
The book interrogates the claim that human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Revisiting human rights interventions on gender, and on behalf of sexual and religious minorities, the author exposes … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Book Talk on “Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl”
