What you learned during the webinar- and what comes next

The insight was the easy part. Here's what actually changes everything  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

April 3rd, 2026   |   Read online Al Salam Alaikum, Alhamdulilah for showing up to the webinar yesterday. The energy in the virtual room was something special- the honesty, the reflections in the chat, the shared recognition that we've all been caught in the same cycle. And I hope that what we covered gave you not just a new way of thinking, but a genuine sense of hope. If you missed it or want to revisit anything, the replay is available here Watch Replay But I want to be direct with you today, because you deserve honesty more than you need a hard sell. The webinar gave you the what. You now know: The slump is a systems failure, not a willpower failure Barakah and productivity were never meant to be separate One intention-based practice- before any task- is the gateway from Hustle Culture to Barakah Culture That clarity matters. But clarity alone doesn't change anything. The gap between knowing what needs to be true and actually building it into your daily life is where most people get stuck.  And it's the gap that opens back up every year- right around now- a few days after Eid- when the post-Ramadan high fades and the inbox takes over again. That gap is exactly what The Productive Muslim program was built to close. If you're ready to move beyond insight and start building a life rooted in barakah, purpose, and faith-based productivity, you can learn more about the program and join here. Learn More about the Program Over the next few days, I'm going to walk you through exactly what's inside the program- who it's for, what participants say about it, and how it's different from anything else you've tried. Sincerely, The Productive Muslim Company Contactus@productivemuslim.com ProductiveMuslim.com   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 "The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran" (Constitutional Discourse), Batuhan Aydın (University of Szeged) "traces the origins of Iran's constitutional identity crisis fro… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Weekend Scholarship Roundup April 3, 2026 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran" (Constitutional Discourse), Batuhan Aydın (University of Szeged) "traces the origins of Iran's constitutional identity crisis from the Qajar period to the present, trying to engage legal scholarship in the midst of current geopolitical developments." In "Doctrinal change in Mālikī law: the case of judicial divorce on account of harm (Ḍarar)" (Comparative Legal History), Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) "explores doctrinal change in Mālikī law. Using the example of the distinctly Mālikī doctrine of a wife's right to judicial divorce based on harm (ḍarar), [he] explores how this rule became the basic position of the school by no later than the eighth/fourteenth century, when Khalīl b Isḥāq included it in his authoritative Restatement of Mālikī law." In "Polarisation of Islamic Scholars on the Legality of Cryptocurrency Usage as Currency" (Arena Hukum), Aan Aswari (Universitas Muslim Indonesia) and others observe that "cryptocurrency has become a key focus in the evolving landscape of virtual finance, sparking a divide among Islamic scholars. The debate centres on whether cryptocurrency should be considered permissible for transactions under Islamic law. [Their] study explores the polarisation among scholars, some of whom permit cryptocurrency use while others prohibit it." On Islam and AI/Data Science In "Maghrebi Dialects—Arabic Bidirectional Translation: An Improved Transformer with Transfer Learning" (Natural Language Processing), Jihad R'baiti (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) and others "present a hybrid approach for translating the Maghrebi dialects into/from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The approach takes advantage of the strengths of the transformer architecture and the BERT language model for transfer learning of representations." 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 RASAM dataset was developed by the Research Consortium Middle-East and Muslim Worlds (GIS MOMM), DISTAM, Calfa, and the BULAC Library between 2021 and 2023. It comprises a diverse collection of Maghrebi Arabic manuscripts from the BULAC Library, featuring a wide variety of handwriting styles, layouts, states of preservation, and other characteristics representative of Arabic Maghrebi manuscript production. The dataset is specifically designed to address the challenges of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for this non-Latin, under-resourced script. In total, the dataset includes 450 images paired with corresponding ground truth data. It covers a representative part of the handwritten production in Arabic Maghrebi scripts and is designed for training generic Arabic handwritten text recognition (HTR) models." UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events:  Workshop: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative), April 2–3, 2026 Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California), "The Islamic Secular," April 7, 2026 Workshop: The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond with Adrien de Jarmy, April 3, 2026 Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Amadu Kunateh, "Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive," April 6, 2026 Roundtable: Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, April 16, 2026 Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Djelemory Diabate, "Closing the Sufi Age: Authority, Finality, and Political Theology in Umar al-Futi Tal's Kitab Rimah," April 20, 2026 PIL & Harvard Opportunities: Award: Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize, April 17, 2026 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:  Fellowship: Normativity and Citizens of Muslim-Majority Countries, University of Turin, April 9, 2026 Fellowship: MESA 2026–2027 Global Academy, April 16, 2026 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 Comment

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