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. Each Lab member will work on a discrete research project in a collaborative, interactive setting. Access restricted to Lab members.
The Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam project (http://www.lawalisi.eu an ERC advanced award) at the University of Exeter is now recruiting three postdoctoral research fellows: ONE one-year fixed term post focussing on early Islamic legal developments (up until 15th century, with a focus on Imami Shii law) with a preference for those working … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Exeter: Postdoctoral Fellows, Shīʿī Islamic Studies
Author: Will Smiley, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire Moderator: Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Harvard University Respondents: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School Will Smiley will discuss the research underlying his new book, in which … Continue reading Harvard Worldwide Week Event: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Book Talk on From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2018)
The 2nd Annual International Conference of the Asian Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, jointly organized by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and Brill-Nijhoff publishers, will challenge the traditional perspectives and static representations of gender and sexuality in Asia, Middle East, and the West. Gathering high-profile speakers from around the … Continue reading International Conference: Law, Gender, and Sexuality
(Free and Open to the Public) About the Symposium The University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Symposium is an endeavor of the Shiʿi Studies Group, established in 2010, to provide an interdisciplinary, non-area-specific forum for the discussion of research on Shiʿism by faculty and graduate students at the University and beyond. The annual symposium aims to … Continue reading UChicago Shi’i Studies Symposium
Sunday, October 28, 2018 (Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, N101) 4:30 PM Keynote Address - “The Contested History of American Religious Freedom" Tisa Wenger, Yale University Monday, October 29, 2018 (301 Marx Hall) 9:30 AM Conference Panel Mohamed Fadel, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law Gustavo Maya, Princeton University Nomi Stolzenberg, University … Continue reading Conceptions of Law: Between “Theology” and Positive Law
The Department of Art at Wellesley College (http://www.wellesley.edu/art) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in the art, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world before 1500. The successful candidate will develop a curriculum attentive to the intersections of Islamicate arts with the arts of the Western Medieval and Byzantine worlds. We seek … Continue reading Call for Applications: Wellesley College: Assistant Professor, Islamic Art
A collaborative workshop by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. The workshop is free to attend, but places are limited. Pre-registration is required. To register, please email [email protected] before … Continue reading Workshop: Ḥadīth, Law and Theology in Early Shiʿīte Islam (London)
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. Each Lab member will work on a discrete research project in a collaborative, interactive setting. Access restricted to Lab members.
We are pleased to announce the Sixth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies which will be held at Waseda University in Tokyo from June 15 to 17, 2019. The conference will be conducted in two parts, and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk archival material from June 12 to 14, 2019, to be … Continue reading Call for Papers: School of Mamluk Studies, Tokyo Conference
