Reports from the SHARIAsource Lab: Experiments in Collecting and Counting Islamic Legal Canons

The SHARIAsource Courts & Canons (CnC) Annotation Suite leverages data science tools to explore questions in Islamic law and society historically through mapping the controversies and values reflected in courts … Continue reading Reports from the SHARIAsource Lab: Experiments in Collecting and Counting Islamic Legal Canons

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Celebrating Maimonides in Cairo (1935): Jewish historiography, Islamic philosophy and the nahḍa" (Contemporary Levant 2023), Lucia Admiraal (University of Groningen) "focuses on representations of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Islam has become less rational since its medieval Golden Age. What went wrong?" (Big Think, June 4, 2023), James Hannam (Royal Historical Society) argues … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Experiments in Searching for Islam’s Universal Canons on the CnC-Qayyim Platform

The Courts & Canons (CnC) Project at SHARIAsource leverages data science tools to explore questions in Islamic law and society historically through mapping the controversies and values reflected in courts (from taʾrīkh, … Continue reading Experiments in Searching for Islam’s Universal Canons on the CnC-Qayyim Platform

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2022), Marion Holmes Katz (New York University) "offers a new account of … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Islam and Data Science Roundup

In "Bangladesh: Religious Intolerance in Bangladesh" (Religious Intolerance in South Asia, ed. Farahnaz Ispahani (forthcoming 2021)), using a unique and nationally representative dataset from 2017, C. Christine Fair and Parina … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

In "Islamic Studies in Australia’s Higher Education Sector" (The Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 6, no. 2 (2021)), Adis Duderija (Griffith University) and Jessica Mamone (Griffith University) collect any discuss … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup

Islam and Data Science Roundup

In "Semantic Mapping of An Ottoman Fetva Compilation: EBUSSUUD Efendi’s Jurisprudence through a Computational Lens" (Journal of Islamic Legal Studies 32, no. 1 (2021)), Bogac Ergene (University of Vermont) and … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup