ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Iran, "three years after the death in custody of Mahsa Jina Amini, which sparked the widespread 'Women, Life, Freedom' movement, women are still finding ways to protest against the regime's new methods of crackdown." Accor…  | By islamiclawblog on September 22, 2025 |  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - In Iran, "three years after the death in custody of Mahsa Jina Amini, which sparked the widespread 'Women, Life, Freedom' movement, women are still finding ways to protest against the regime's new methods of crackdown." According to Human Rights Watch, "Iran's authorities have failed to conduct effective, impartial, and independent investigations into serious human rights violations and crimes under international law during and since the 2022...protests." Iran Human Rights reported that "at least 2,910 people, including 83 women, have been executed in Iran since September 2022" including "14 protesters, most linked to the Women, Life, Freedom movement."
- The AFP covered the recent rise in the number of cosmetic surgery clinics in Kabul where "20 or so clinics...have flourished since the end of decades of war in the country."
- "The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has closed eight centres providing support to Afghan refugees forced back to the country because Taliban authorities are preventing female U.N. staff from entering them."
- The Borneo Bulletin featured four recent graduates of the Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali [Brunei] "with stories that spanned the fields of Islamic finance [and] halal science."
- "In a significant step towards Islamic values-based artificial intelligence, Zetrix AI Berhad, developer of the world's first Shariah-aligned Large Language Model (LLM) NurAi and the Government of Malaysia, through the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs)...signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on establishing the foremost global framework for Shariah compliance, certification and governance in AI."
- "The world's first international halal standards for biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, and nutraceuticals are in the works...led by the Istanbul-based Standards and Metrology Institute for Islamic Countries (SMIIC)."
- The "Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University...issued a controversial decree, under the name Directive No. 25, which bans the use of nude models in graduation projects....These developments come amid rapid transformations in Syria's cultural and social landscape, following the political changes that began in December 2024."
- "The Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs has strongly denounced an Israeli decision to take over parts of the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil City."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - In India, the Supreme Court "passed an interim order, staying certain provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, until the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the law are conclusively decided." The Muslim organization Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind "welcomed the Supreme Court's order...but expressed concern over the top court's refusal to stay the entire law including prospective de-recognition of 'Waqf by user'." Similarly, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board "voiced disappointment over the Supreme Court's interim judgment...calling the order 'incomplete and unsatisfactory.'" "The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and All India Shia Personal Law Board also expressed disappointment over not staying the entire law."
- "Uzbekistan has taken a major step toward diversifying its financial sector with the approval of a draft law on Islamic banking in its first reading. Lawmakers in the legislative chamber of the parliament, the Oliy Majlis, debated the bill during a session held on September 16."
- "An Iranian court has sentenced Reza Seghati, the former head of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Gilan province, to 100 lashes and exile in connection with a widely publicized same-sex scandal that cost him his post."
- "In a landmark judgement with far-reaching implications for women's rights under Islamic family laws, the Supreme Court [of Pakistan] ruled...that a woman's right to maintenance (Nafaqa) was neither contingent upon consummation or 'Rukhsati' (bridal departure) nor is it subject to her husband's discretion."
- "The Syrian Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) announced...the cancellation of several lease contracts in the Arab al-Malik area of Jableh (in Latakia province, on Syria's Mediterranean coast), held by relatives and associates of the former ruling elite, including Hafez Makhlouf and Zuhair al-Assad."
- "A Detroit-area city that banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles did not violate the Constitution, a judge said....A pride flag was flown in June 2021 and 2022 before some members of the all-Muslim council said it clashed with the beliefs of some members of their faith."
- Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada banned fiber-optic internet to "prevent immorality," leaving "government offices, the private sector, public institutions, and homes in northern Balkh province without Wi-Fi." Elsewhere in Afghanistan, "residents said people in...Kandahar, Helmand, Herat, Uruzgan and Nimroz have [also] lost access to fiber-optic internet."
- "The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment....The universities were further told they were no longer allowed to teach 18 subjects, with a Taliban official saying they were 'in conflict with the principles of Sharia and the system's policy.'"
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Omar Abdel Ghaffar (Harvard University), "Canonizing Assent: Legal Canons in Action in late Medieval Jerusalem," September 22, 2025 @6:15pm
- Talk: "The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law," Adam Baczko, October 9, 2025 @ 4:30pm
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Ozkan Karabulut (Harvard University), "Scripturalization of the Alevi Mystical Poetry," November 3, 2025 @6:15pm
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Prof. Houssem Chachia (University of Tunis), "The Conquest of Tunis (1535): Memory, Defeat, and Celebration Across Cultures," October 20, 2025 @6:15pm
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Cem Turkoz (Harvard University), "Ottoman Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Context: The Evolution of the Canon," November 17, 2025 @6:15pm
Other Events: - Conference: Paris Congress at 125—Comparative Law's Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today, McGill University, Canada, October 16–18, 2025
- Conference: 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, University of Pittsburgh, November 5–7, 2025
- Conference: ASLH 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, November 13–15, 2025
- Conference: "Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities," North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies, November 20, 202
- Conference: International Conference "Poetry and Knowledge," University of Münster, November 20–22, 2025
- Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22–25, 2025
- Conference: Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law—An Interdisciplinary Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, February February 4–5, 2026
- Conference: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 24–27, 2026
PIL & Harvard Opportunities: Other Opportunities: - Call for Panels: International Medieval Congress, September 30, 2025
- Position Opening: Research Associate (PhD Position) for the history, economy and law of the early Islamic empire, Universität Hamburg, October 3, 2026
- Call for Papers: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, October 31, 2025
- Call for Papers: Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law—An Interdisciplinary Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, November 1, 2025
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Trends in Intellectual Property Research, Volume 3, Issue 2, December 29, 2025
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Legal Research & Analysis, Volume 3, Issue 2, December 29, 2025
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