Mariam Sheibani is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought at the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. She received her PhD in Islamic Thought from the University of Chicago and postdoctoral training at Harvard Law School. Her research and teaching focus on Islamic intellectual, religious, and social history, particularly the theory and practice of Islamic law, ethics, and Sufism.
Prior to joining Brandeis University, she taught at The University of Toronto, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Chicago. She also served as Associate Academic Director and Head of Research at Cambridge Muslim College. Since 2018, she has been Research Editor for the Islamic Law Blog based at Harvard Law School.
Her forthcoming book, An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law, examines how Muslim jurists from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries addressed salient questions of legal philosophy and ethics. Her other publications and ongoing research projects investigate the construction of early Islamic law, classical doctrines of Muslim family law, and Islamic ethics and traditions of spirituality.
Post History
Authored Works
- Al-Qarāfī on the Importance of Legal Maxims and Distinctions in Jurisprudence
- Al-Qarāfī’s collection of legal distinctions
- Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ’s fatwā
- The Golden Collection of the Law’s Maxims
Other Scholarship
- Program in Islamic Law Celebrates Its New English Translation of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ
- Mariam Sheibani Named Hurst Fellow
- Lunch Talk: Borrowing and the Development of Islamic Legal Canons
- SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Between Legal Conservatism and Legal Change: Fault Lines in Ayyūbid Damascus.
- Harvard Worldwide Week Event: SHARIAsource Book Talk :: From Slaves to Prisoners of War
- Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl on “Islamic Law in an Age of Fear”
- SHARIAsource Selects 2018-2019 Visiting Fellow