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
Call for Papers: Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern, November 16, 2018 Hosted by the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI) This one-day workshop brings together graduate students and early career scholars working on topics related to Shiʿism in all periods and from any disciplinary perspective. The workshop is open to work … Continue reading Call for Papers: Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern
The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The SRC annually enables eight Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles with distinguished ASLH-affiliated scholars. This year, the … Continue reading ASLH Student Research Colloquium Applications
The University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Group Symposium Call for Papers (CFP): “Sectarian Identity and Community Formation in Islam” Abstract Submission Deadline: July 22nd Symposium Date: October 26-27, 2018 How did sectarian identities come to be formed in the Islamic context and how has the concept of “sectarianism” changed in the context of Shi‘i Islam … Continue reading Call for Papers :: Sectarian Identity and Community Formation in Islam
The SoCal Islamic Studies Graduate Student Consortium invites papers exploring the theme of “Sharia and the Secular.” Does Sharia rule Muslims’ lives? Is there a non-shar’ia side of life that could be conceived of as ‘secular’? How do non-shar’i aspects of state policy relate to Sharia? We are interested in papers that interrogate how Sharia … Continue reading Call for Papers: Sharia and the Secular
Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process 2019 AALS Annual Meeting The AALS Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process is pleased to announce a call for papers for its section program, which will be held during the 2019 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. The program is entitled “21st Century … Continue reading Association of American Law Schools 2019 Annual Meeting :: Call for Papers: 21st Century Textualism
The AALS Section on Law and Religion and Immigration Law has approved a section on asylum and refugee rights in Islamic law, which will be held during the 2019 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. The Muslim World today is currently experiencing the greatest rate of refugee movement in the world. This will allow scholars … Continue reading Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting Call for Papers: Asylum and Refugee Rights in Islamic Law
CFP: Reception, appropriation, and innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic worlds. The 2nd Annual International Graduate Edinburgh Byzantine Conference. (30 Nov - 1 Dec 2018) by Mathew Barber Reception and appropriation (whether reuse, imitation, or variation) have long been recognised as necessary tools for the interpretation of Byzantine literature, art, architecture and archaeology, while … Continue reading CFP: Reception, appropriation, and innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic worlds. The 2nd Annual International Graduate Edinburgh Byzantine Conference
Funded by the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and with support from Yale University, the Humboldt Yale History Network aims to assemble and sustain a global research network of historians. To that end, the network will offer a series of travel grants over the coming years. This year the Foundation is … Continue reading Humboldt Yale History Travel Grant
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching and research awards in over 125 countries for the 2019-2020 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty as well as for professionals and independent scholars. Awards that may be of interest to scholars of Islamic law include: Canada- Research Chairs in Policy, Law, and Governance Fulbright Canada Research Chairs are targeted, specialized opportunities for scholars to … Continue reading Fulbright U.S. Scholar Opportunities in Law
University of Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies Instructor in Arabic £28,098 - £33,518 per annum, full time Two posts: one permanent appointment, one fixed term appointment for five years We are looking for two committed and highly effective Instructors in Arabic, to commence on 1 October 2018. The Instructors will give instruction in Arabic language … Continue reading Arabic Instructor – University of Oxford
