SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Is sharia law like canon law?" the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica argue that "Both the sharia (Islamic law) and canon law provide norms for the performance of religious rituals, family relations, and so… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Weekend Scholarship Roundup November 13, 2026 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Is sharia law like canon law?" the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica argue that "Both the sharia (Islamic law) and canon law provide norms for the performance of religious rituals, family relations, and some aspects of personal behavior based on the precepts of Islam and certain Christian churches, respectively. But the sharia and canon law are fundamentally different in several ways." In "The execution of Bangladeshi nationals in Saudi Arabia: Violations of consular rights and vulnerability to systemic discrimination" (Death Penalty Research Unit), Psymhe Wadud (University of Dhaka) observes that "On 14 October 2026, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) executed two Bangladeshi nationals, a man and a woman, for committing what a statement by the Saudi Press Agency described as an “immoral act” inside a mosque in Mekkah." The article asks, "First, did the Saudi government violate individual consular rights established by the key treaty governing consular assistance, namely the Vienna Convention on Consular Rights (VCCR)? Second, did the executions form part of the KSA’s disproportionately racialised death penalty regime and its ongoing violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)?" On Islam and AI/Data Science In "IsnadGuard: Detecting Fabricated Chains of Narration in Hadith Transmission Networks" (Open Review), Ghaleb Aldoboni (Mohamed bin Zayed University University of Artificial Intelligence) and others "study a focused task: detecting and localizing fabricated chains from the narrator-transmission structure alone. Using Sanadset 650K, [they] construct a directed narrator graph and generate corruptions grounded in classical defect typologies: narrator substitution (tasheef fi al-isnad) and chain splicing (idraj al-sanad). [They] propose ISNADGUARD, a multiple-instance graph model that scores each transition using local statistics and narrator embeddings, aggregates transition scores with noisyOR, and is trained jointly for chain classification, contrastive ranking, and edge localization." 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: The Refugee Studies Digital Archive is a "a digital library of writings by and about refugees, particularly Palestinian intellectuals," containing over 1,700 Arabic titles. UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES  Harvard/PIL Events:  Reception: Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the Middle East Studies Association 2026 Annual Meeting, November 23, 2026 Global Events:  Conference: American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 12–14, 2026 Conference: Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 21–24, 2026 Conference: The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900), University of Leiden, January 13–15, 2027 Conference: Rupture or Continuity in Sharīʿa: (De)Colonizing Sharīʿa? International Conference, Centre for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey, June 9–11, 2027 Harvard/PIL Opportunities:  Call for Papers: Con-IH 2027: Transimperial Histories, November 13, 2026 Global Opportunities:  Position Opening: Tenure-track/Tenured Professor of the History of the Modern Middle East, Cornell University, November 15, 2026 Position Opening: Associate Professor in Iranian History, Wadham College, University of Oxford, January 4, 2027 Call for Papers: St. Andrews Early Modern Postgraduate Workshop, January 8, 2027 Comment

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The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the American Society for Legal History‘s (ASLH) 2026 Annual Meeting, to be held November 12–14, 2026 in Banff, Alberta, Canada… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law at ASLH 2026! (A PIL Guide) November 13, 2026 The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the American Society for Legal History‘s (ASLH) 2026 Annual Meeting, to be held November 12–14, 2026 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.  Are we missing a session that you’d like to see here? Send us a note.  November 12, 2026 @ 9:00am The Johnson Program for First Book Authors Convener: Christopher Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law Du Fei, University of Oklahoma Local Women, Global Histories? Gendering Economic Life, Law, and Islam in Early Modern Transregional India   November 12, 2026 @ 11:00am Empire, Constitution & Governance Chair: Patricia McMahon, York University Sarath Pillai, University of Calgary Muslim Federal Ideas in Colonial India, 1920s–1940s   November 13, 2026 @ 8:30am The Kathryn T. Preyer Award Panel Chair: Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University Commentator: Rohit De, Yale University Iqra Saleem Khan, Harvard University Rules Without Judges: The Statutory History of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in British India, 1926–1936   November 13, 2026 @ 10:15am Before 1492: Law and Governance in an Age of Expansion Chair & Commentator: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University Rodrigo García-Velasco, University College London Surveying Conquered Lands: Conversion and Legal Knowledge in Post-Islamic Iberia, 11-14th Centuries Roundtable on Legal Pluralism and Imperial Governance: Managing Local Law in Colonial Contexts Chair: Myra Ann Houser, Ouachita Baptist University Fuad-Meša Čičić, University of Pristina The Code of the Mountains against the Empire: Customary Law, Blood Feud, and Ottoman Attempts at Political Control over Albanian Tribes in the 19th Century Ehlimana Memisevic, University of Sarajevo Administering Islamic Justice: Sharia Courts in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina   November 13, 2026 @ 1:15pm Change in Islamic Law: From the Foundational Period to Modernity Chair & Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Marion Katz, New York University Change in the Service of the Establishment: A Debate on the Islamic Law of Booty Mariam Sheibani, Brandeis University Proscribing Temporary Marriage: Ibn ‘Abbās, the Meccan School, and the Retrospective Logic of Sunni Consensus Hina Azam, University of Texas Austin Ottoman Sex Crime Legislation and Hanafi Law: Are Fines Punishments or Compensation for Illicit Sex? Reem Shaikh, University of Texas Austin Doctrinal Change in Hanbalī Family Law in Modern Saudi Arabia   November 14, 2026 @ 10:15am Lightning Round: Perspectives on Legal History of Governance and Membership Chair: Jane Manners, Fordham University Sadra Emami, York University Islamic Jurisprudence in Translation: Iranian Political Thought in Western Academic Dissertations Gender, Privacy, and Public Identities in Premodern Islamic Law Chair & Commentator: James Muir, University of Alberta Janina Safran, Pennsylvania State University Masculinity and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Islamic Spain and North Africa in the Tenth Century Rosemary Admiral, University of Texas Dallas Finding Women’s Legal Agency: Islamic Law and Historical Sources Jocelyn Hendrickson, University of Alberta What’s in a Name? Medieval Muftis and the Ethical Duty of Confidentiality   November 14, 2026 @ 2:15pm The Ottoman Roots of International Law Chair: Joshua White, University of Virginia Commentator: Tommaso Stefini, Sabanci University Abdurrahman Atçıl, Sabanci University Negotiating Law Across Empires: Ottoman Ahidnames and the Making of an Inter-ImperialLegal Order Tommaso Stefini, Sabanci University The Ahidnames and the Making of an Inter-State Judicial System Will Smiley, University of New Hampshire The Ottoman Roots of Non-Recognition in International Law Aimee Genell, Boston University The Ottoman Origins of the Territorial Integrity Norm   Comment

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