A Note from the Director Congratulations to the Class of 2022, as well as to the returning Classes of 2020 and 2021! We at the Program in Islamic Law at … Continue reading Congratulations to the Class of 2022!
Congratulations to the Class of 2022!
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Judicial Crisis in Damascus on the Eve of Baybars’s Reform: The Case of the Minor Orphan Girl (651–55/1253–57)" (Islamic Law and Society (March 23, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Following the ruling by the Karnataka (India) High Court that hijāb is not an "essential" part of Islam, advocates have started preparing to take the … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
Lecture on Comparative Law: “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism at SCOTUS and in Islamic Law” by Intisar Rabb, UC Berkeley Law, April 13, 2022 @ 3:50 – 5:00 pm ET
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In "Legal Canons—In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons, 1265–1519" (Villanova Law Review 66, no. … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
“Faith in the Law”: Program in Islamic Law Featured in Harvard Law Today
For its Winter 2022 issue, Harvard Law Today, Harvard Law School's news bulletin, featured an article titled "Faith in the Law," exploring how various programs and faculty members at Harvard … Continue reading “Faith in the Law”: Program in Islamic Law Featured in Harvard Law Today
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to cut interest rates, arguing that the cut is also in line with Islamic law. In a recent interview, … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: Religious Freedom in the Global South (MDPI Books, 2021), edited by Waheeda Amien (University of Cape Town), brings together articles written by various scholars that … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Islamic Law in the News Roundup
ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Two of the three men accused and convicted of killing Malcolm X in 1965 have been exonerated. For content and context on Islamic law, including … Continue reading Islamic Law in the News Roundup
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Leading scholars of Islamic law, including Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb, were invited by the University of Bergen for a roundtable on "the use and usefulness of the concepts of canonization … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup