ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Nigeria, "the Kano State Hisbah Board has said its mass wedding programme is open to both Muslims and Christians." "Islamic scholar Dr. Muhammad Salah has urged Muslims to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to expand … Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law in the News Roundup July 6, 2026 ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Nigeria, "the Kano State Hisbah Board has said its mass wedding programme is open to both Muslims and Christians." "Islamic scholar Dr. Muhammad Salah has urged Muslims to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to expand Islamic education and Da’wah, while stressing that its use must be guided by authentic Islamic knowledge and ethical standards." "Cambodia is taking another significant step to diversify its tourism industry...responding to the rapidly growing global demand for halal tourism and Muslim-friendly hospitality." "Months after the killing of Iran's supreme leader at the start of its war with the United States and Israel, mourners will hold a dayslong funeral and burial for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The mourning period will see Khamenei’s body carried through cities in both Iran and neighboring Iraq." "According to Malaysia’s Prime Minister, measures to strengthen the system of Islamic courts will concern their organisation and not their jurisdiction over non-Muslims in a country where the balance with the civil courts remains a sensitive issue." 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. "When it comes to halal travel, most Malaysians would first think of overseas destinations like Indonesia, Turkey or Saudi Arabia.However, unbeknownst to many, Malaysia is actually the world's leading Muslim-friendly travel destination, and has been for the past 11 years."  CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW "A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province have been publicly caned after a Sharia court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream." "Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have strengthened the state’s protections against Sharia law." The Egypt vs. Iran Men's World Cup match fell "during Seattle's Pride Week, a series of 2SLGBTQ+ festivities dating back to 1974 and celebrated in the final week of June...[both teams] asked for the celebrations to be cancelled, with the African side's football association saying it 'categorically rejects holding any activities related to supporting [homosexuality] during the match.'" In Indonesia, "with mandatory halal certification set to expand significantly in October 2026, the Halal Product Assurance Agency (Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Produk Halal or “BPJPH“) has issued a new regulation detailing how administrative sanctions will be imposed on non-compliant business actors." "Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Tuesday reaffirmed its rejection of an Islamabad High Court (IHC) ruling that grants wives at least a 50 percent share in matrimonial assets. The council declared the judgment inconsistent with Islamic law and announced plans to challenge it before the appellate court." "A canonist at the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN) in Kenya has urged the Church in the East African country to seek amendments to the country's marriage laws after the High Court dismissed a petition from a Catholic man who sought to stop his wife from pursuing a civil divorce....He contended that Parliament had accommodated Islamic family laws through the jurisdiction of the Kadhis' Courts while failing to provide similar recognition to Catholic Canon Law, thereby violating Catholics' rights." In India, "the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently struck down a Tamil Nadu government order that allowed a Hindu man from Backwards Classes, Most Backwards Classes, Denotified Communities, or Scheduled Castes to avail reservation benefits even after converting to Islam." 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 Opportunities:  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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SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In a recent episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, Shehnaz Haqqani (Mercer University) and Edith Szanto (University of Alabama) "explore specific Muharram practices, including self-flagellation, the wedding of… Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Weekend Scholarship Roundup July 3, 2026 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In a recent episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, Shehnaz Haqqani (Mercer University) and Edith Szanto (University of Alabama) "explore specific Muharram practices, including self-flagellation, the wedding of Qasim, and other ritualized forms of mourning, as well as gendered dynamics in who participates and why. We discuss what these practices looked like on the ground—what Muharram in Sayyida Zaynab felt like, how different communities understood and debated these rituals, and what purposes they served for those who participated in them. We talk about the Zaynabiyya seminary and how changes in its physical and institutional structure reshaped how knowledge was taught and who held authority." In Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh University Press), editors Hannah-Lena Hagemann (University of Hamburg) and Alasdair C. Grant (University of Hamburg) offer "the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. [The book] combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical analysis in its study of contention and the ways in which it was narrated and enacted. These approaches are pursued through 14 case studies, ranging geographically from North Africa to Central Asia and chronologically from the sixth to tenth centuries CE. These diverse examples reveal several patterns. First, rebellion operated as a normative means of negotiating power and obtaining justice. Secondly, the main constituencies of rebellion were local elites, both Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and members of pre-conquest societies, separately or together." On Islam and AI/Data Science In "Mapping Qur’anic Contemplation Research (2001–2025): Trends, Contributions And Future Directions" (Quranica), Ahmad Amirul Ihsan Che’ Zahari (Universiti Sains Malaysia) and Mohd Shukri Hanapi (Universiti Sains Malaysia) examine "the development and trends in Qur’anic contemplation (tadabbur) research based on publications indexed in the Scopus database between 2001 and 2025....Using VOSviewer, R-Studio (Bibliometrix) and Microsoft Excel, the study analyzes 358 documents from 175 sources to map the intellectual and thematic evolution of this field" while "citation and keyword analyses reveal a strategic shift from classical exegesis toward interdisciplinary engagements integrating hermeneutics, ontology, ethics and digital humanities." 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 Afsaneh Esfandiari (Gidfar) collection contains "family photographs and legal and financial documents, including depositions and settlements" from 19th–21st-century Iran." 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 Conference: Rupture or Continuity in Sharīʿa: (De)Colonizing Sharīʿa? International Conference, Centre for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey, June 9–11, 2027 Opportunities:  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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