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ILSP Lunch Talk: A History Without Gaps: Legal Maxims and the Evolution of Islamic Law

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Speaker: Mariam Sheibani, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago  The emergence and functions of legal maxims in Islamic law remains an understudied field in Islamic legal history. Scholars have noted early interest in maxims in the tenth and eleventh centuries, followed by a period of dormancy prior to the eruption of maxim treatises in the fourteenth … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk: A History Without Gaps: Legal Maxims and the Evolution of Islamic Law

MESA Annual Meeting

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel 2660 Woodley Rd NW, Washington, DC

2017 MESA: Judicial activism in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family law

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel 2660 Woodley Rd NW, Washington, DC

Presenter: Monika Lindbekk This paper analyzes aspects of judicial activism in the field of Egyptian personal status law for Muslims. In a country where reform of the current personal status codes is politically fraught, family court judges perform an important semi-legislative task in interpreting and applying the law. Taking this as a point of departure, … Continue reading 2017 MESA: Judicial activism in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family law

Governance and Violence in Islamic Law Workshop

University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom

This one-day workshop is held under the auspices of the USPPIP project (Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present) and will be hosted by the University of Exeter.  The workshop will cover the specific focus of two elements of the project – violence (studied by Exeter USPPIP research team) and governance (studied by the Bergen USPPIP … Continue reading Governance and Violence in Islamic Law Workshop

ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Sharon Tai, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi, former MIT Media Lab Fellow, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s collection of cases of Islamic law in U.S. Courts, including cases of family law and religious accommodation. From there, comparison of state courts with overall … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications

CGIS Knafel 262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, United States

Shady Nasser Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Professor Nasser teaches Arabic literature as well as Islamic Civilizations courses. He previous posting was as a University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK), in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Shady started his PhD at Harvard … Continue reading Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications

ILSP LUNCH TALK

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Rodrigo Adem, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School; College Fellow, Harvard University Department of History

UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Conference April 2018

UC Berkeley

The Near Eastern Studies graduate students at UC Berkeley would like to invite the graduate students of your department to participate in the 2018 UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference. Please find our full Call for Papers on our website (jagnesjournal.wordpress.com), we would greatly appreciate if you could distribute this to your department's … Continue reading UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Conference April 2018

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