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

A panel to discuss Professor Intisar Rabb's soon-to-be released book co-edited with Abigail Krasner Balbale, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, composed in honor of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh.  

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