In September, we look back at some of our most read essays published in the past year as well as the roundtables we convened in the past that attracted a … Continue reading Best of 2022-2023 & Roundtables in Review: Islamic Legal Literature
Thank you, Sohaib Baig!
Thank you, Sohaib Baig, for joining us as guest blog editor in August. In case you missed his essays, here they are: Islamic Law Collections across 14 North American Libraries … Continue reading Thank you, Sohaib Baig!
Travelogues and Islamic Law: Vignettes from an Indian Ḥanafī Hajj Account, 1839
By Sohaib Baig In the previous two essays, I conducted collection-level analysis of a Turkish union catalog containing more than half a million records to explore the textual landscapes of … Continue reading Travelogues and Islamic Law: Vignettes from an Indian Ḥanafī Hajj Account, 1839
The Textual Landscapes of Ḥanafī Eurasia: South Asian Scholarship in Turkish Print Collections (Part 2 of 2)
By Sohaib Baig In the previous essay, I explored the transmission of South Asian Muslim scholarship to the Ottoman Empire by analyzing contemporary holdings of Turkish manuscript collections. In this … Continue reading The Textual Landscapes of Ḥanafī Eurasia: South Asian Scholarship in Turkish Print Collections (Part 2 of 2)
The Textual Landscapes of Ḥanafī Eurasia: South Asian Scholarship in Turkish Manuscript Collections (Part 1 of 2)
By Sohaib Baig In the previous essay, I provided an overview of contemporary print collections for Islamic law in North American libraries. In the next two essays, I shift focus … Continue reading The Textual Landscapes of Ḥanafī Eurasia: South Asian Scholarship in Turkish Manuscript Collections (Part 1 of 2)
Islamic Law Collections across 14 North American Libraries
By Sohaib Baig I recently attended a gathering that focused on brainstorming the potential scopes of a digital project on Islamic legal history. Someone posed a deceptively simple question: how … Continue reading Islamic Law Collections across 14 North American Libraries
Welcome to our August Guest Blogger: Sohaib Baig
Sohaib Baig is the Librarian for Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian, and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed his PhD in History at … Continue reading Welcome to our August Guest Blogger: Sohaib Baig
Weekend Scholarship Roundup
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law: In Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran (Duke University Press, 2022), Afsaneh Najmabadi (Harvard University) "uncovers her family’s complex experiences … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup
Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Sohaib Baig
This interview is part of our Fellow Spotlight series. This series features interviews with current and previous PIL Fellows, highlighting their work with the Program, their path getting here, and … Continue reading Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Sohaib Baig
PIL Fellow Sohaib Baig Wins Best Dissertation Prize!
The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) is pleased to announce that Sohaib Baig, PIL fellow, won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of … Continue reading PIL Fellow Sohaib Baig Wins Best Dissertation Prize!