Call for Volunteer Chairs & Discussants: 2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society

From the organizers: The Program Committee is responsible for creating sessions for individually submitted papers that have been accepted. Volunteers for Chair and Discussant roles are greatly appreciated. When completing the volunteer form online, you will be able to select keywords associated with the sessions for which you would like to volunteer. One of the … Continue reading Call for Volunteer Chairs & Discussants: 2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society

Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press

From the editors: Advances in the Study of Islam Focuses explicitly on new, original and creative approaches to understand, analyse and critically revisit Islamic studies • Highlights both disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches to Islamic studies from religious studies, theology, philosophy, law, history, cultural anthropology and linguistics • Challenges existing paradigms and norms by providing alternatives … Continue reading Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press

Workshop: “Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling with Maps,” Stanford University, February 28 – March 4, 2022

From the organizers: Dear Friends and Colleagues: We are pleased to announce “Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling with Maps,” an intensive, student-designed workshop for emerging scholars. The workshop will be held from February 28-March 4, 2022 at Stanford University, and is co-hosted by the David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Geospatial … Continue reading Workshop: “Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling with Maps,” Stanford University, February 28 – March 4, 2022

Position opening: Islamic Law Blog Staff Editor, The Program in Islamic Law

Our Islamic Law Blog is looking for a staff editor to join our editorial team (remotely) at Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law / SHARIAsource. This staff editor will be working with Professor Intisar Rabb, editor-in-chief, and a small team of dedicated editors. We seek a candidate who has superb editorial, organizational, and scholarly skills and … Continue reading Position opening: Islamic Law Blog Staff Editor, The Program in Islamic Law

Webinar: “Contesting the Caliphate: Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West” by Abigail Balbale, Harvard University, March 4, 2022 @ 1:30 PM

“Contesting the Caliphate: Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West” In the twelfth century, as Iberian Christian kingdoms fought to expand into the peninsula’s Muslim territories and the Almohad caliphate conquered much of the Islamic west, one king fought the Almohads and served as vassal to the Castilians. At its peak, his kingdom constituted nearly … Continue reading Webinar: “Contesting the Caliphate: Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West” by Abigail Balbale, Harvard University, March 4, 2022 @ 1:30 PM

Webinar: “The Making of an Islamic City-State: Genealogy, Religion and Sovereignty in Nasrid Granada” by Mohamad Ballan, Harvard University, March 7, 2022 @ 12:00 PM

“The Making of an Islamic City-State: Genealogy, Religion and Sovereignty in Nasrid Granada” Mohamad Ballan (PhD, UChicago 2019) is currently an Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the intellectual and political history of the medieval Islamic world, with a focus on Islamic Spain and North Africa between 1200 and 1600. … Continue reading Webinar: “The Making of an Islamic City-State: Genealogy, Religion and Sovereignty in Nasrid Granada” by Mohamad Ballan, Harvard University, March 7, 2022 @ 12:00 PM

Islamic Law Speaker Series: Prof. Issam Eido, Program in Islamic Law, March 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Join us for the Program in Islamic Law's Islamic Law Speaker Series! Prof. Issam Eido (Vanderbilt University) will present "Pre-Canonical Islamic Legal Canons: An Analysis of Early Hanafi Literature." Eido will attempt to trace the legal canons that were used in early Hanafi sources, beginning with Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī’s (d. 189/805) works and ending … Continue reading Islamic Law Speaker Series: Prof. Issam Eido, Program in Islamic Law, March 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Webinar: “Another Commercial Revolution? The Case of Fatimid Egypt” by Lorenzo Bondioli, Harvard University, March 9, 2022 @ 12:00 PM

“Another Commercial Revolution? The Case of Fatimid Egypt” Lorenzo Bondioli is a social and economic historian of the premodern Middle East working on the longue durée history of capital accumulation in noncapitalist societies. His research investigates the political economy of Islamic empires, focusing on the Fatimid Caliphate (909-1171 CE). This talk will argue that Fatimid … Continue reading Webinar: “Another Commercial Revolution? The Case of Fatimid Egypt” by Lorenzo Bondioli, Harvard University, March 9, 2022 @ 12:00 PM

AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Dr. Hedi Viterbo, Associate Professor of Law, March 11, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Friday March 11, 11 am CST   Dr. Hedi Viterbo, Associate Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London Author of Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood In Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Interviewed by Sunaina Maira (Professor, University of California, Davis) Links for series will be sent to all AMECYS listserv members, so make sure signed up for the … Continue reading AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Dr. Hedi Viterbo, Associate Professor of Law, March 11, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

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