ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Malaysia, "Muslim children born out of wedlock are given the generic surname of Abdullah (which means God's servant in Arabic) on their birth certificate. . . . The reason the National Registration Department (NRD) gave …  | By islamiclawblog on June 2, 2025 |  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - In Malaysia, "Muslim children born out of wedlock are given the generic surname of Abdullah (which means God's servant in Arabic) on their birth certificate. . . . The reason the National Registration Department (NRD) gave Mazlan, who was in Sabah when he got married but now lives with his family in Selangor, was that he did not have a marriage certificate from the Sabah Islamic Affairs Department. No marriage certificate, no legal recognition."
- "The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said."
- "First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Aref [of Iran] has called for artificial intelligence development in Islamic countries based on the three main principles of multilateral cooperation, scientific synergy, and shared infrastructures."
- "The Taliban government has banned chess in Afghanistan, citing concerns that the game is associated with gambling and may conflict with Islamic law."
- "Senior clerics and influential religious figures in Afghanistan [have] withh[eld] support from the Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, despite direct appeals from the ministry's leadership." 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."
- "Hizb ut Tahrir Canada has faced a public outcry over plans to resurrect its annual conference, which calls for governments to be overthrown to invoke a Muslim caliphate."
- "Najia Lofti has been in the spotlight these days due to her controversial intervention on Gemma Nierga's program on TVE, El Cafè d'Idees. She participated in a debate about the Islamic veil. A very trendy topic in Catalonia, after Aliança Catalana presented a motion in Parliament to ban the veil in schools."
- "Iran's National Security Council has halted implementation of the controversial headscarf law."
- "Saudi Arabia has denied recent reports that said the kingdom would lift a ban on alcohol, prohibited under Islamic law."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - "The Supreme Court [of India] . . . reserved its order on interim relief in a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, which, among other provisions, abolishes the concept of 'waqf by user' and introduces sweeping changes to the registration and classification of waqf properties across India." "Senior advocate Kapil Sibal called the Act a creeping acquisition of Waqf properties, alleging that it undermines Muslim rights to manage their endowments."
- "Iran's judiciary has agreed to review a death sentence against controversial underground singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, following a legal petition and calls for clemency by Iranian celebrities."
- "A Pakistani court has raised serious alarm over the growing number of honour killings in the country, calling the practice 'uncivilised, barbaric, and abominable.'"
- "Pakistan's parliament . . . passed a significant bill aiming to curb, discourage and eventually eradicate child marriages in the federal capital by raising the legal age of marriage for both sexes to 18 years."
- "A highly sensitive and potentially divisive legal debate unfolded . . . in Somalia's Federal Parliament as members of the House of the People (Golaha Shacabka) were presented with two major legislative proposals, one of which [African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child] has stirred serious concerns over its compatibility with Islamic principles."
- "The High Court [of Bangladesh] yesterday summarily rejected a writ petition challenging the legality of several recommendations made in the Women's Affairs Reform Commission's report."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Calendar: - 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.
- Arabic Intensive Program: SABLA 2025 Summer Arabic Intensive Program, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., June 16 – July 17, 2025 (Deadline June 2, 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).
- Wallace Johnson First Book Program, June 27, 2025.
- Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series, American Society for Legal History, June 30, 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).
- Summer School on Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies, September 1-4, 2025, Switzerland (Deadline: June 13, 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 31, 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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