ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "In war zones and disaster areas, food can become a serious problem for Muslim soldiers and refugees. The US Military’s packaged, ready-to-eat meals (MREs) were a huge success when they were first introduced during the Seco… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law in the News Roundup June 22, 2026 ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "In war zones and disaster areas, food can become a serious problem for Muslim soldiers and refugees. The US Military’s packaged, ready-to-eat meals (MREs) were a huge success when they were first introduced during the Second World War. They were built to last a long time without going bad. But as more people of different faiths, specifically Muslims, joined the armed forces, the question of a lack of halal-certified meat or chicken options in the standard MREs became an issue." "At an evidentiary hearing...[a petitioner] confirmed that his motion was a request that the circuit court apply Islamic law instead of the laws of the State of Wisconsin." "In a move to insulate the sanctity of the pulpit from the fray of partisan politics, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and Secretary General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has called on Islamic clerics to resign their positions before contesting for elective offices." "Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, in a meeting of the group’s Council of Ministers, emphasized religious and ideological education for the people and said that strengthening the Islamic system depends on teaching religion." "Pakistan has no law that criminalises abetment of suicide, exposing a critical gap in the country’s criminal justice system where psychological abuse that leads to death remains largely unpunished....Islamic jurisprudence already has a solution: the doctrine of tasbib (indirect causation)." In Qatar, "the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, represented by the Institute of Da’wah and Islamic Sciences, organised a specialised scientific training course titled “Contemporary Jurisprudential Issues in Financial Transactions” as part of its 2026 Shariah Muftis Forum training programme." "Indonesia’s top Islamic clerical body has defended President Prabowo Subianto’s use of state funds to purchase sacrificial cattle for the Eid al-Adha." "The funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will begin in Tehran on July 4."  CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW "Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi has been sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without a hijab during a live-streamed YouTube concert in 2024." "The Lahore High Court [Pakistan] has ruled that a husband is legally bound not only to pay the dower (mehr) mentioned in the nikahnama but also to fulfil any additional commitments made through a separate agreement at the time of marriage." "The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) [Pakistan] has issued comprehensive guidelines to protect women’s inheritance rights, directing courts and revenue authorities to closely scrutinize any compromise, gift, settlement, mutation, or transaction that could affect a female heir’s lawful share." "The Kerala High Court [India] has held that passport authorities cannot insist on a court-issued divorce decree for deleting a spouse's name from a passport when the marriage has already been dissolved through a legally recognised form of extra-judicial divorce under Muslim personal law." "A Mombasa Kadhi's Court has dissolved a 33-year marriage between a Kenyan woman and a Comoros national after she refunded a KES 50,000 dowry." In Malaysia, "a mother of two broke down in tears as she begged for leniency from the Syariah High Court in Melaka for attempting to have sex with another woman's husband last year." For more content and context on Islamic law in Malaysia, consult our Editor-in-Chief Professor Intisar Rabb’s "Legislation and Regulation of Islamic Law in Malaysia" and its appended resource roundup. "The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expressed concern over multiple arrests and detentions of women in Herat for alleged non-compliance with Taliban dress codes." "The United Nations security council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their crackdown on women." For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.” UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Events:  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 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 Opportunities:  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

Islamic Law Blog © 2026. Unsubscribe or manage your email subscriptions. Get the Jetpack app Subscribe, bookmark, and get real‑time notifications - all from one app! Automattic, Inc. 60 29th St. #343, San Francisco, CA 94110

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press), Marielle Risse (Dhofar University) "examines how middle-class Muslim men and women in Dhofar, Oman, make and negotiate marital choices, tra… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Weekend Scholarship Roundup June 19, 2026 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press), Marielle Risse (Dhofar University) "examines how middle-class Muslim men and women in Dhofar, Oman, make and negotiate marital choices, tracing every stage of marriage through their own personal accounts." In "Echoes of Empire: Persian Kingship in the Medieval Islamic World" (The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast), Natasha Parnian (Macquarie University) "revisits the centuries after the fall of the Sasanian Empire to uncover the surprising afterlife of Persian kingship. Far from vanishing under Arab rule, ideas of sacred monarchy, justice, and divine glory were translated, adapted, and woven into Islamic political thought. Through figures like Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and evolving genealogies linking caliphs to Sasanian royalty, this episode reveals how Persian imperial memory became a powerful language of legitimacy in the medieval Islamic world." In The Politics of Islamic Ethics (Cambridge University Press), Raissa A Von Doetinchem de Rande (University of Chicago Divinity School) argues that "fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fiṭra. Rooting her investigation in the two central passages in the Qur'an and Hadith literature, where it is asserted that God created human beings in a certain way, the author moves beyond discussion of the usual figures who have commented on those texts to look instead at a group of classical Islamic philosophers rarely discussed in conjunction with ethical matters. Tracing the development of fiṭra through this overlooked strand of medieval thinking, von Doetinchem de Rande uses fiṭra as an entrée to wider topics in Islamic ethics. She shows that the notion of fiṭra articulated by al-Farabi, Ibn Bajja, Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Rushd highlights important issues about organizational hierachies of human nature." This, she argues, has major implications for contemporary political and legal debates. On Islam and AI/Data Science In "AI and Qur’anic Interpretation: Exploring the Ethical and Epistemological Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence in Understanding the Qur’an" (Al-Furqan), Safa Alrumayh (University of Zawia) "critically examines the role of AI in Qur’anic interpretation by addressing its epistemic capabilities, ethical limitations, and claims to interpretive authority. Employing a qualitative, literature-based research design, this study analyzes peer-reviewed scholarship on AI and religion, computational hermeneutics, natural language processing of sacred texts, and algorithmic bias, alongside classical and contemporary works in Islamic epistemology and Qur’anic exegesis. The findings indicate that while AI demonstrates high proficiency in linguistic processing, semantic consistency, and structural analysis of religious texts, it lacks epistemic understanding, moral intentionality, and ontological subjectivity." 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: "SaudiLegalAI-8B is a specialized legal artificial intelligence model developed by Abdul Wasey specifically for the Saudi Arabian legal system. Built upon the advanced Qwen3-8B architecture and optimized with Apple MLX framework, this model provides expert-level assistance in Saudi legal matters, combining modern commercial law with traditional Islamic jurisprudence." The model integrates Saudi commercial law, Islamic jurisprudence, and Vision 2030 reforms. UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES  Events:  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 Conference: The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900), University of Leiden, January 13–15, 2027 Opportunities:  Call for Papers: The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900), University of Leiden, June 20, 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

Islamic Law Blog © 2026. Unsubscribe or manage your email subscriptions. Get the Jetpack app Subscribe, bookmark, and get real‑time notifications - all from one app! Automattic, Inc. 60 29th St. #343, San Francisco, CA 94110