The next cohort starts soon, and this story might be the nudge you need

“It gave me the courage and the tools”- and the cohort starts on May 11  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

April 24th, 2026   |   Read online Al Salam Alaikum, We’re down to the final days before the next ProM Trainer Certification cohort begins on May 11th, and we wanted to share one more story before the window closes. Dr. Sulyman Olanrewaju is a physician in the United States. When he joined the Certification Program, he wasn’t looking to leave medicine- he was looking to bring something into it. Something his patients and colleagues couldn’t find anywhere else. Read what Dr. Sulyman said in his own words: “What the certification program gave me was the courage as well as the tools to effectively spread Barakah Culture in the healthcare community.” Two words stand out in what he said: courage and tools. Because that’s the gap most people feel when they sit with the idea of teaching, they may have the heart for it, but they’re not sure they have the framework. Or they may have the knowledge, but not the confidence to stand in front of a room and deliver it in a way that actually changes people. The certification addresses both. That’s precisely what it’s designed to do. If you attended the challenge and felt something stir a sense that is a direction worth exploring seriously, this is your moment to act on that feeling before the next cohort begins. Here’s where things stand right now: Cohort start date: 24th Dhul-Qa'dah 1447H (May 11th, 2026) Seats remaining: 22 Next step: A free consultation call with a team member The call is not a commitment. It’s a conversation- one that will give you a clear, honest picture of whether this is the right fit for you, what the program involves, and what your life as a certified trainer could look like. Book Your Free Consultation Call We cannot hold seats. When they’re gone, the next cohort will not open for several months. If there’s any part of you that has been considering this, please don’t let this window close without at least having the conversation. Your community is waiting for the version of you that is equipped to serve them well. Sincerely, The Productive Muslim Company Contactus@productivemuslim.com ProductiveMuslim.com P.S. Suher KhairAllah, one of our certified trainers, put it simply: “I have participated in many training programs, but I have never seen someone who provides all his materials, knowledge, experience, and support as Mohammed Faris does.” The program is built to give you everything- not just the content, but the confidence to use it. Book your call and find out for yourself.    Update your email preferences or unsubscribe here © 2026 The Productive Muslim Company 3824 Cedar Springs Rd #801-8634 Dallas, Texas 75219, United States Powered by beehiiv Terms of Service

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Dominik Krell (University of Oxford) shows t… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Weekend Scholarship Roundup April 24, 2026 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Dominik Krell (University of Oxford) shows that "that while the debate on the family waqf in other parts of the Arab world was dominated by the rise of the modern state, capitalism and European colonialism, the criticism of the family waqf in Saudi Arabia predates these discourses and emerged independently from the thought of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792). Subsequent Saudi jurists did not simply repeat Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s critique. Instead, they regularly diverged from it and from the Ḥanbalī school more generally. This challenges conventional descriptions of Saudi jurists as being monochromatically 'Wahhabi-Hanbali' in their legal thinking." In "Sharia Courts, Legal Pluralism, and Geopolitical Stability in Nigeria" (Instituto Analisi Relazioni Internazionali Blog), Giovanni Pirozzi (Instituto Analisi Relazioni Internazionali) observes that "sharia courts are at the heart of Nigeria’s legal and social fabric, shaping the country’s governance, stability, and international image. While embedded in the 1999 Constitution, these courts exist in a delicate balance with Nigeria’s secular framework — a balance that can either reinforce federal cohesion or exacerbate societal tensions." On Islam and AI/Data Science In "Between Hadith and Algorithms: The Epistemic Transformation of Farāiḍ by Era Artificial Intelligence" (International Conference on Islam, Law, and Society Proceedings), Mughniatul Ilma (UIN Kiai Ageng Muhammad Besari Ponorogo) and Husna Ni'matul Ulya (UIN Kiai Ageng Muhammad Besari Ponorogo) seek to "reinterpret the relationship between the revocation of knowledge (naz' al-'ilm) in hadith and algorithmic preservation by artificial intelligence." They propose "a new conceptual framework, namely trans-human Islamic epistemology, that places AI as instrumental intelligence under the control of moral consciousness and maqāṣid al-sharī'ah." 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: "Connected Papers creates a graph-based network that clusters similar works together, even if they don’t directly cite or reference each other. Instead of showing a citation tree, it uses data from Semantic Scholar to visualise academic relationships based on bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis. This means you can quickly see groups of publications that share a strong thematic or methodological connection." Learn more about the tool here. UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES  PIL & Harvard Opportunities: Award: Alwaleed Bin Talal Doctoral Dissertation Prize, May 15, 2026 Global Events:  Conference: Humanities of AI—Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis, Johns Hopkins University, April 24–26, 2026 Conference: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 24–27, 2026 Conference: Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, May 1–2, 2026 Workshop: The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, June 8–9, 2026 Conference: Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Chicago, June 17–18, 2026 Workshop: Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Graduate Student Workshop, July 25–26, 2026 Workshop: Archival Abundances and Silences in Islamic Studies, Princeton University, October 2–3, 2026 Conference: Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 21–24, 2026 Global Opportunities:  Language School: Persian Language Summer School, Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Yerevan, Armenia, May 1, 2026 Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, May 4, 2026 Call for Participation: Digital Medieval Studies Institute, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 13, 2026 Award: Global Dissertation Prize, American Society for Legal History, June 1, 2026 Position Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle East, Colby College, July 1, 2026  Call for Participation: Digital Medieval Studies Institute, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 10, 2026 Award: Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, July 15, 2026 Award: Graduate Paper Prize, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, July 15, 2026 Award: Student Travel Award, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, September 1, 2026 Comment

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