SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Hidden in the Margins: Contesting Legal Authority in Marginal Hadith Glosses" (Islamic Law and Society), Muntasir Zaman (Qalam Seminary) explores "nineteenth century marginal glosses on lithographed ha… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Weekend Scholarship Roundup By islamiclawblog on September 26, 2025 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Hidden in the Margins: Contesting Legal Authority in Marginal Hadith Glosses" (Islamic Law and Society), Muntasir Zaman (Qalam Seminary) explores "nineteenth century marginal glosses on lithographed hadith literature" and their impact on "competition over scholarly authority." [login required] In "Siyāsa in the Bahmani Sultanate and the Death of Maḥmūd Gāwān" (Islamic Law and Society),  Meia Walravens (Oxford University) contributes to "the history of Islamic law in South Asia, more particularly in the Bahmani Sultanate (748–934/1347–1528), an important power in the Deccan…[and] takes up the study of the sultanate's legal history through the topic of siyāsa, i.e. the sultanic power to judge over subjects independently and exercise discretion." [login required] In "Navigating Body Politics in Shiʿi Legal Tradition: Examining Sayyid Kāẓim al-Yazdī's Account of Non-Binary Intersex" (Islamic Law and Society), Mehrdad Alipour (Utrecht University) offers a "novel examination of intersex individuals as a third ontological category in Shiʿi legal discourse." [login required] In "A Muslim Perspective on Assisted Dying" (London School of Economics Blog), Haifaa Jawad examines the implications of the UK's assisted dying bill  "from a Muslim theological perspective." On Islam and AI/Data Science In "The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Hadith Scholarship: A Bibliometric Perspective on Emerging Research Directions" (Nukhbatul 'Ulum), Azwar Azwar (Institut Agama Islam) and others "map the research landscape concerning the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in hadith studies." FIELD GUIDE TO ISLAMIC LAW ONLINE: RECENT SOURCES The Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is an ever-growing collection of links to hundreds of primary sources and archival collections around the world, online. We recently added a new resource to this list: Mouse & Manuscript is a "collection of lessons in codicology – the study of handwritten documents or codices - and palaeography from the Muslim world....The lessons are centered around fully digitalised manuscripts from the oriental collection of Leiden University Libraries. They include samples in Arabic, Persian and Coptic, from cultures ranging from the Maghrib to Mughal India. The lessons can be read in any order. All include suggestions for further reading and questions (with answers) or assignments." UPCOMING EVENTS & 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:  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 Comment

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