ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, the ultraconservative Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Asheikh, died [September 23rd] after having served as the kingdom's top religious authority for more than two decades." "King Salman bin Abdulaziz has…  | By islamiclawblog on September 29, 2025 |  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - "Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, the ultraconservative Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Asheikh, died [September 23rd] after having served as the kingdom's top religious authority for more than two decades." "King Salman bin Abdulaziz has appointed Sheikh Dr. Saleh bin Abdullah Al Humaid" to take his place.
- "Kelantan [Malaysia] police chief Yusoff Mamat suggested that girls in 'consensual' [statutory rape] cases should also be charged. Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail clarified two days later that it was his personal view and not government policy." In response, Kelantan Mufti Datuk Mohamad Shukri Mohamad said that "although the proposal was a personal view, it was worth examining as it touched on issues of justice and the enforcement of both civil and Syariah laws." News reports also quoted Malaysian Syariah Lawyers Association president Musa Awang's support for amending the law: "The age limit could be lowered to 14 for this offence."
- Iran International featured a story on "Temporary marriage in Iran: religiously sanctioned, socially taboo."
- "UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer...dismissed US President Donald Trump's claim that London's mayor plans to impose Islamic law on the British capital as 'nonsense.'" "The president made the claim while addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York City."
- "The Pakistani government has launched a new virtual asset (cryptocurrency) regulator."
- Journalist Farid Farid interviewed Imam Kamran Tahir, "one of the main speakers at an upcoming annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslims," about "the rising tide of Islamophobic incidents [in Australia], which have spiked by 150 per cent in the past two years."
- "Halal concerns drive vaccine hesitancy as Indonesia fights [a] measles outbreak."
- "Gov. Greg Abbott took time during a bill signing event this month to scold a Houston imam he said was trying to force Muslim-owned businesses to follow Sharia law....The governor appeared to be referencing F. Qasim ibn Ali Khan, whose campaign against Muslim-owned businesses that sell products forbidden in Islam, like alcohol, pork and lottery tickets, has gone viral among right-wing activists warning of 'Sharia patrols' in Texas."
- "Best friends Mashrufa Miah and Hinna Awan, 29, took to social media to launch themselves as the Muslim Finance Girlies."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - "Two Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation seeking to ban the enforcement of Sharia law in the United States."
- "Nigeria's Supreme Court...granted lawyers representing Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a musician sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy, permission to file an appeal outside the legally prescribed timeframe."
- In the US, "Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian imam and hospital chaplain who had been detained [by Immigration and Customs Enforcement] at a county jail for more than 10 weeks, was released and is expected to have his visa status fully returned."
- "A Muslim charity's lawsuit alleges a landlord cancelled a new lease agreement with the organization after a Hamilton [Canada] pastor — with a church that would be sharing the space — made Islamophobic comments during a recent service."
- "The Kerala High Court [India] has held that a Muslim man without the financial capacity to support his wives cannot take a second or third wife, even under the community's customary law."
- "The Allahabad High Court [India] has stayed criminal proceedings against three applicants, including a man accused of pronouncing triple talaq on his wife, after they argued that the form of divorce alleged in the case has no recognition under Shia Muslim law."
- The Indian Supreme Court "refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to ban Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses."
- "A coalition of 40 Finnish Muslim organisations has issued a joint statement rejecting proposals to ban face-covering religious garments in schools and public spaces."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Talk: "The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law," Adam Baczko, October 9, 2025 @ 4:30pm
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School), The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology, October 14, 2025 @12:30pm
- 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—Ozkan Karabulut (Harvard University), "Scripturalization of the Alevi Mystical Poetry," November 3, 2025 @6:15pm
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: Youssef Belal (United Nations), "Thinking the World with Islamic Knowledges," November 11, 2025 @12:30pm
- 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: - Talk: Maral Sahebjame—"Dismantling the Family Unit": Clerics and Cohabitation in Contemporary Iran, September 29, 2025 @12:00pm
- 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: - Study Group: "The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World" with Youssef Chahed and Hisham Kassem (Senior Fellows, Middle East Initiative), September 30, 2025
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law, October 15, 2025
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
- Position Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle East, Colby College, July 1, 2026
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