ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "The IX Kurultai of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan will be held on April 26. The decision to convene it was made by the Ulema Council in connection with the end of the term of office of the current, VII convocation. The press service …  | By islamiclawblog on April 28, 2025 | ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - "The IX Kurultai of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan will be held on April 26. The decision to convene it was made by the Ulema Council in connection with the end of the term of office of the current, VII convocation. The press service of the Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of Kyrgyzstan (SDMK) reported. The main task of the upcoming Kurultai will be the formation of a new, VIII composition of the Ulema Council."
- "The U.N. [said] more than half of people detained by the Taliban's morality police in the first 6 months of new laws regulating personal conduct were men who had noncompliant hairstyles or their barbers." "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issued a sharply worded condemnation of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Wednesday, labeling its recent statements on the application of Qisas — a retributive form of justice under Islamic law, typically meaning 'an eye for an eye' — as 'irresponsible and rooted in ignorance of Islamic law.'" For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb's "Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law."
- In the UK, "[p]ossessing non-consensual images of a Muslim woman who is not wearing face covering should be classified as a criminal offense—even if the photos are taken in public—according to a new parliamentary committee report."
- "Malaysian national mortgage firm Cagamas Bhd has sold 2.02 billion ringgit ($606.8 million) of Islamic bonds based on palm oil contracts, the company said."
- "Long one of the Islamic Republic's [Iran] staunchest ultra-conservatives, cleric and Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei has lately championed anti-corruption and urged caution on a new hijab law in a shift which has confounded allies."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - "The Federal Court [in Malaysia] . . . granted leave to a 32-year-old Orang Asli woman to appeal against her registration as a Muslim, following her conversion to Islam at the age of two. A three-member panel led by Federal Court judge Tan Sri Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan unanimously held that leave should be granted, as the matter raises several novel questions of public importance that merit further consideration."
- In India, "The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, which has now received President's assent, drastically revamps the legal structure of Muslim religious endowments in India, indicating a decisive move by the state into the domain of minority religious affairs." "The Waqf Board, which has been in the news in recent days, is the third-largest landowner in India and owns approximately 872,000 registered immovable properties." "India's political opposition . . . protested a controversial bill moved by prime minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments." "Joining the list of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, the Indian Union Muslim League, a political party, has filed an Article 32 writ petition challenging the Act on grounds of violating Article 14, 15, 25 and 26 of the Constitution." "Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Monday (April 7, 2025) said the petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 will be listed for hearing in due course." Sources reported that "[a] three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justices PV Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan is hearing the matter."
- The International Union of Muslim Scholars Fatwa Committee "emphasized the urgency of establishing an Islamic military alliance to protect the ummah and repel aggression."
- "The legal age of marriage was the primary focus of debate during the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs' final public hearing on the Marriage Bill, held in Witbank, Mpumalanga [South Africa]. The committee spokesperson, Mosa Chabane, said while the Bill generally received a mixed response, the proposed legal marriage age of 18 years old sparked the most concern." "Egypt's official religious authority, Dar al Ifta, has harshly rejected a fatwa issued by the World Union of Muslim Ulema calling on Islamic countries and individual believers to wage armed jihad against Israel."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - Call for Managing Editor: Program in Islamic Law, 2025-2026, April 30, 2025.
- Workshop: Parchment, Paper, Inks, and Gold, The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Art Museums, May 1, 2025.
- Workshop: Workshop on Libraries, Manuscripts, Readers and Patrons in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate World, The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and Houghton Library, May 5-7, 2025 (Deadline: April 6, 2025).
- Prize: Doctoral Dissertation Prize, The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, May 16, 2025.
- Fellowship: May-Crane Fellowships, Harvard University 2025 (deadline to be announced).
Calendar: - Symposium: 12th Annual Graduate Symposium, hosted by the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Student Council (MIISSC), Montreal, April 24, 2025 (deadline February 17, 2025).
- Lecture: Calligraphy, Meet Street Art, Ubaydallah Ahmad and Ismael Muhammad Nieves, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, April 27, 2025.
- Call for Papers: Symposium on Legal Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Royal Holloway University University of London, April 30, 2025 (deadline March 15, 2025).
- Grant: MESA Global Academy 2025 – 2026 Application, May 1, 2025.
- Prize: Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Book Prize, May 1, 2025.
- Workshop: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, May 1-3, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: February 5, 2025).
- Call for Papers: 39th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, May 2-3, 2025 (Deadline: January 31, 2025).
- Call for Papers: " Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy," University of Villanova School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 5-6, 2025 (Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2025).
- Conference: Eleventh Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Queen Mary University, UK, May 8-10, 2025 (Paper proposals: October 31, 2024; Panel proposals: November 30, 2024).
- IISMM Seminar Series: "From Jerusalem to India: Endowments and Gender Influences," IISMM, France, May 16, 2025.
- LSA 2025 Annual Meeting: Chicago, Illinois from May 22-25, 2025 (Early registration: December 3, 2024; registration: January 3, 2025).
- Call for Papers: "Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework," ESIL IG, Paris, June 6-7, 2025 (deadline February 28, 2025).
- Prize: Phanor J. Eder Prize in Comparative Law, Younger Comparativists Committee, June 13, 2025.
- 2025 Hurst Summer Institute: Legal History, University of Wisconsin Law School, June 15-27, 2025.
- Conference: Law, Culture, and Humanities 27th Annual Conference, Georgetown University, June 17-18, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 31, 2025).
- IISMM Seminar Series: "Waqfs, women and circles of power," IISMM, France (remote option), June 20, 2025.
- Conference: The Middle Ages in the Modern World, London Strand Campus, King's College London, June 24-26, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 13, 2025).
- Workshop: "From Classical ML to AI in Arabic and Islamic Studies," Hamburg University, July 1-4, 2025 (Deadline: April 30, 2025)
- Summer Language Intensive Program: Istanbul University Institute for Islamic Studies, July 7 – August 8, 2025.
- Prize: Colin B. Picker Prize, Younger Comparativists Committee, August 15, 2025.
- Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, August 18-29, 2025 (Application deadline: May 5, 2025).
- Faculty Fellow: Faculty Fellow in Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 2025-2026, September 1, 2025 (Deadline: March 24, 2025).
- Call for Proposals: Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law's Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today, McGill University, Canada, October 16-18, 2025 (Deadline: May 14, 2025).
- Conference: 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, University of Pittsburgh, November 5-7, 2025.
- Call for Papers: ASLH 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, November 13-15, 2025 (Deadline: March 25, 2025).
- Call for Papers: International Conference "Poetry and Knowledge," University of Münster, November 20-22, 2025 (Deadline: June 1, 2025).
- Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2025 (Proposal deadline: February 13, 2025).
- Position opening: Senior Lecturer in Law, History, and Society, Vanderbilt University, 2025.
- Search for Editor: International Journal of Middle East Studies, until an appointment is made.
- Internship opportunity: The Executive Office of the President, White House, various deadlines.
- Position opening: Academic mentor and field researcher in Iraq, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich, rolling basis.
- Position opening: Academic mentor for researcher in Mogadishu, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich.
- Call for Papers: Special Section – Lifewriting Annual and Islam.
- Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press.
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