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HLS Library Tour & Orientation: The Islamic Law Collection

Langdell Library

Islamic Law Librarian Gayle Fischer will provide an orientation for those interested in becoming familiar with the Islamic law resources available at the Harvard Law School Library, both online and offline. Harvard Law School’s Islamic Law Collection is one of the largest institutional collections in the world. Gayle will conduct a mini-session on research strategies … Continue reading HLS Library Tour & Orientation: The Islamic Law Collection

SHARIAsource Open House

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Come learn about the Islamic Legal Studies Program & SHARIAsource.com, which offers content and context on Islamic law. SHARIAsource provides an Islamic law portal <beta.shariasource.com>, built in partnership with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, as well as a blog <islamiclaw.blog> with regular and relevant commentary on new developments and new scholarship in … Continue reading SHARIAsource Open House

HLS Library Tour & Orientation: The Islamic Law Collection

Islamic Law Librarian Gayle Fischer will provide an orientation for those interested in becoming familiar with the Islamic law resources available at the Harvard Law School Library, both online and offline. Harvard Law School’s Islamic Law Collection is one of the largest institutional collections in the world. Gayle will conduct a mini-session on research strategies … Continue reading HLS Library Tour & Orientation: The Islamic Law Collection

Conference: Historiography/Ideology/Law II

Boston College Law School Faculty Lounge, Stuart Hall, 4th Floor, 885 Centre St., Newton Center, MA

This conference is a follow-up to a series of conversations on the relations between historiography, ideology, and law that took place at the University of Helsinki in March 2018. Among other things, the Boston College conference will take up a set of questions about the recent trajectory of critical legal history, as well as about … Continue reading Conference: Historiography/Ideology/Law II

SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Nahed Samour, Early Career Fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study The talk focuses on the judge's authority as it emanated from the judicial organization under the early Abbasids. It discusses the concept of office as well as theories of professionalization and bureaucratization and their applicability to the Islamic history of adjudication. Dr. Nahed Samour … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts

Digital Islamic Law Lab

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.

Conference: Uses of the Past in Islamic Law

University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom

The program for the "Understanding Shari’a: Perfect Past, Imperfect Present" (USPPIP) end-of-project conference is available here. The conference is free to attend but registration is necessary. Please register by sending an email to [email protected] detailing which days/sessions you will be attending. Registration is open until 1 pm UK time on Friday, September 21st. Those attending … Continue reading Conference: Uses of the Past in Islamic Law

Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Law

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for a full professorship in “Islamic Law in the Past and Present," starting 1 October 2019. This professorship addresses religious jurisprudence (Fiqh), the methodology of law (Usul al-fiqh) and the philosophy of law in the classical canon of Islamic theology. It considers not only jurisprudence in the … Continue reading Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Law

Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Text Studies

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for a full professorship in Islamic Text Studies, starting 1 October 2019. The teaching and research focus of this professorship is on the Koran, as well as on the traditions of the Prophet’s teachings and life (Hadith and Sira). Both the historical contexts of the texts and … Continue reading Call for Applications: Humboldt University, Berlin: Professor, Islamic Text Studies

Workshop :: Tools for Digital Islamic Law

Jeremy Guillette, Digital Scholarship Facilitator, Harvard University will demonstrate and discuss established and emerging digital tools students of Islamic legal history and contemporary Islamic law may use in their research. Space is limited. For details and location, RSVP to [email protected].

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