Islamic Law Speaker Series:: Fatma Gül Karagöz (2023-2024 PIL-LC Fellow) The Transition of Ottoman Land Law: Theory and Practice between 16th-18th Centuries This event will take place via Zoom. The link for this event is available here.
From the Harvard University Center for African Studies: Harvard University President Derek Bok established the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program in 1979 to address the needs of South Africans denied access to advanced education by the apartheid system. The creation of this program was a direct response to the strong movement by Harvard students and … Continue reading Fellowship: Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program, April 15, 2024
The Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law (JMEIL) is accepting academic articles and student notes for Volume 13. Submissions should be related to social-legal issues pertaining to the Middle East and/or Islamic Law. Please submit a short bio alongside your submission. Deadline: April 15 Submissions are accepted via email: JMEIL-SUBMISSIONS@berkeley.edu
"The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University is delighted to host the Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, a program designed to provide support and mentorship to scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early middle ages. In conversation with peers and with the … Continue reading Johnson Program: The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, April 15, 2024
Session 7 (17 April 2024, 18h CET) Partnership for Heritage. Documentation and heritage management for the protection of the Nafousa Mountains (Libya) (in Arabic), Mahmoud Hadia and Ahmed Masoud (Department … Continue reading Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Partnership for Heritage. Documentation and heritage management for the protection of the Nafousa Mountains, April 17, 2024
From the organizers: In this presentation, Havva Guney-Reubenacker will discuss her ongoing work on Islamic legal critiques that challenge the legitimacy of women’s inequality in Islamic law’s traditional theory of marriage. Event Overview Please join us for a presentation by Havva Guney-Ruebenacker, Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, on the theory of marriage in Islamic … Continue reading Lecture: From Ownership to Partnership: Rethinking the Theory of Marriage in Islamic Law with Havva Guney-Ruebenacker, Harvard Law School, April 17, 2024 @ 12:15 – 1:15 PM
From Ekaterina Pukhovaia at the Leiden University (see here): Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that this spring Leiden University will host the first round of a series of … Continue reading Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen (6th-9th/12th-15th c.), April 22, 2024
The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region, primarily those who are currently displaced in North America. Eligibility criteria for the fellowships … Continue reading MESA Scholarship: MESA Global Academy, 2024-2025, May 1, 2024
From the organizers: General Guidelines for All Open Submission Proposals Programs may be proposed by full-time faculty members or administrators at AALS Member or Fee-Paid law schools. International faculty, visiting … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Symposium, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, May 6, 2024
On Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Philip Wood (Aga Khan University) will give a book talk on The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, … Continue reading Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, c. 750–850” with Philip Wood, Program in Islamic Law, May 14, 2024 @ 12:30 – 1:30 pm
