This two-day course will unpack the legal implications of the Muslim marriage contract by considering: A brief historical context relating to the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa A synopsis of the legal implications of the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa An analysis of South African case law that recognises the Muslim … Continue reading University of Cape Town Course :: Muslim Marriage Contracts
This lecture will combine the talks of two experts on law and gender: Judge Somoud Al-Damiri (Palestine) and Prof. Maria Wersig (Germany) Since 2009, Judge Somoud al-Damiri is one of the first female Muslim judges working in sharīʿa courts in the Middle East. At the same time, she is public prosecutor in family law in … Continue reading Double Talk “Female Judges – Experiences, Successes and Challenges in Palestine and Germany”
The workshop is organized as a cooperation between Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider, Dr. Nijmi Edres, Prof. Dr. Jens Hanssen, Seminar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft, Göttingen University and Dr. Nahed Samour, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen, Institute of Advanced Study, in the frame of the activities of the HERA project Understanding Sharīʿah: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present www.usppip.eu.
Everyone is familiar with Google Maps—all of us are using it on a daily basis. In 2012 a group of researchers at Stanford (led by Walter Scheidel), developed Orbis (http://orbis.stanford.edu/), which, one may put, applied the same geographical principles to a particular historical context. Dubbed “a Google Maps for the Roman Empire”, this model became … Continue reading Open Call: Modeling Travels in History: an ORBIS-esque Hackaton
Johnson Program for First Book Authors Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2018 The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) announces a new program designed to provide advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation with peers … Continue reading Johnson Program for First Book Authors -Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History
MESA is now accepting submissions and nominations for a number of awards. For students and recent PhD graduates: MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards. For retired faculty, academics, and those serving Middle East Studies: MESA Mentoring Award, Jere L. Bacharach Service Award, MESA Undergraduate Education Award. Submissions and nominations … Continue reading Middle Eastern Studies Association: Call for Nominations and Submissions
The three-day intensive course in Digital Islamic Humanities is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be offered by Dr Maxim Romanov (Universität Wien) and will be held immediately before the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Ghent University, in collaboration with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities … Continue reading Course: Digital Islamic Humanities
This workshop takes place within the project Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? (EURO-EXPERT) funded by the European Research Council and directed by Livia Holden. This workshop explores cultural expertise in the ancient and modern history of expert witnessing. The stress of this workshop will be on development and change of culture-related expert witnessing, … Continue reading Workshop: Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History
The first day of the conference, July 5, will be themed. The theme of this part of the conference will be Historiography/Adab. The following two days of the conference (July 6 and 7) will be structured in pre-organized panels that will focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of … Continue reading Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
As a global religion, Islam and its jurisprudence have offered heterogeneous responses to a range of questions facing different faiths and communities. Modernity imposed new questions upon religious scholars, theologians and philosophers, demanding of them a new version of pluralism in the theological and political arenas. While doctrinal or philosophical exclusivism rejects “the other” in … Continue reading Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
