SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts
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Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop
The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries, mobility and transformation. Our goal is to … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop
Conference: Uses of the Past in Islamic Law
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
Call for Applications: Furman University: Professor, Middle Eastern History
The Department of History at Furman University is seeking candidates for an open-rank, tenure-track position in any field of the history of the Middle East and the Islamic world. The chronological and geographical focus remain open, but the department is particularly interested in candidates with the ability to teach survey courses in Middle Eastern history, with … Continue reading Call for Applications: Furman University: Professor, Middle Eastern History
Call for Applications: Brandeis University: Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies
Brandeis University invites applications to fill the newly endowed Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies. This is a full-time faculty position to carry tenure in a department appropriate to the candidate’s discipline and area of research. The incumbent of the Chair will be a scholar of the history and culture of … Continue reading Call for Applications: Brandeis University: Chair in Ottoman, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jewish Studies
Call for Applications: University of Exeter: Postdoctoral Fellow, Shi’a Islamic Studies
Two positions are available on a fixed term basis from 1st April 2019 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for a period of 2 years in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, College of Social Sciences and International Studies (SSIS) at the University of Exeter. The College wishes to recruit two Research Fellows to … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Exeter: Postdoctoral Fellow, Shi’a Islamic Studies
SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts
SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts
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
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.
Workshop :: Tools for Digital Islamic Law
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].
CONFERENCE :: Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures: A Celebration of Professor William A. Graham
CONFERENCE :: Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures: A Celebration of Professor William A. Graham
Location: Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue Free and open to the public Details forthcoming Sponsors: The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Divinity School, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Center for the Study of World Religions, and The Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School