The MESA Board of Directors has approved the creation of two new book awards honoring the pioneering efforts of two women. The inaugural awards will be presented at the 52nd … Continue reading Mesa Book Awards: Including Two New Awards
ISISC is glad to announce that the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights - the new public name adopted by the International Institute of Higher Studies in … Continue reading Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights: 18th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on “International and Transnational Crimes”
The Law, Learning and Authority in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) project will host a panel at the British Association for Islamic Studies (www.BRAIS.ac.uk), to be held at the University of … Continue reading British Association for Islamic Studies Conference 2018
Asifa Quraishi-Landes will explain her current project, proposing a structure for Islamic constitutionalism that is inspired by Islamic jurisprudence and Muslim history, yet designed for contemporary realities. This structure is … Continue reading Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible.
Ebrahim Afsah, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School, will discuss his current research on a structured comparison between waqf and the Western institution of landed trust and the implications for … Continue reading ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Comparing Waqf and Western Landed Trusts
Please join us at New York University's Tamiment Library (10th floor, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Sq. South) on Wednesday, April 11, 6:30-8:00PM (doors open at 6pm) for a round table on issues relating … Continue reading Timbuktu and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of West African Manuscript–Round Table
Northwestern University’s Center for Legal Studies invites applications from outstanding candidates for a full-time, two-year, non-renewable teaching and research post-doctoral fellowship beginning fall 2018. The purpose of the fellowship is … Continue reading Northwestern University Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Law & Inequality, 2018-2020
The aim of the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is to provide international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and diverse links between the Muslim, … Continue reading MA: Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World
On the 19th – 20th April 2018, the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bergen will host the workshop Maslaha, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society. We are … Continue reading Maslaha, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society Workshop
A challenge for the Islamic Shari’a is that it should span from a religious ideal to a social and political reality. Islamic thinkers have long discussed whether this should primarily … Continue reading 3rd USPPIP Team Meeting and Workshop: Maslaha, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society
