 | By islamiclawblog on June 24, 2024 | ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - "Turkey's Minister of Justice has issued an arrest warrant for a Youtuber named 'Diamond Tema' due to comments made on a recent program regarding Islamic Sharia law."
- Russia has been reported to be considering a ban on the niqāb, a veil worn by some Muslim women to cover their face. For more information and context on a similar hijāb ban controversy in Karnataka (India), consult our previous Research Editor Raha Rafii's "Snapshot: Karnataka High Court Ruling on Banning Ḥijāb" and the posts listed there.
- Malaysia's Minister of Religious Affairs recently warned Islamic scholars that they should not comment on issues in which they are not knowledgeable. The Minister said: "It is not wrong to say you don't know because even Imam Malik, Imam Syafie when asked by a student, they said they don't know, when they do not know."
- "Members of the Taliban have shared an audio file of Sheikh Abdul Ali Deobandi on X, in which he declares that teaching women to read and write, even at home, is prohibited."
- "The acting Minister of Information and Culture [in Afghanistan], in a meeting with journalists in Paktia, said that the previous public media law is in accordance with Sharia and the principles of the Islamic Emirate and, with minor differences, will soon be made available to the media."
- "The Taliban's reclusive supreme leader [Hibatullah Akhundzada] [...] warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honor at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and isolated on the global stage." 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."
CASES AND FATWĀS - "The Human Milk Bank at the Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology (SICHN), a pioneering initiative in Pakistan, has been temporarily suspended following a revised fatwa from Dar-ul-Uloom Karachi."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES Calendar: - Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: Mapping the Past, Imagining the Future: Heritage Politics in Ḥūthī Yemen, June 24, 2024.
- Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Surveying and documentation of the archaeological city of Barca (Al-Marj), June 26, 2024.
- Symposium on Copyright in Islamic Legal Tradition, Istanbul, June 28-29, 2024.
- Workshop: ASLH Early Career Virtual Workshop, June 30, 2024.
- Call for Papers: The XI Islamic Legal Studies Conference, University of Muenster, June 30, 2024.
- Symposium: Knowledge in the Islamic Court: Evidence, Proof, Procedure Symposium – May 14-15, 2025 (Rabat, Morocco), June 30, 2024.
- Prize: Best dissertation, Middle East Medievalists, June 30, 2024.
- Call for Papers: De Jure: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar'iah, June 2024.
- Call for Papers: Law, colonialism and gender in the Muslim world, July 1, 2024 (Conference: December 19-20, 2024).
- Call for Proposals: Hot Topics Program, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, October 14, 2024.
- Search for Editor: International Journal of Middle East Studies, until an appointment is made.
- Internship opportunity: The Executive Office of the President, White House, various deadlines.
- Position opening: Academic mentor and field researcher in Iraq, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich, rolling basis.
- Position opening: Academic mentor for researcher in Mogadishu, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich.
- Call for Papers: Special Section – Lifewriting Annual and Islam.
- Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press.
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