SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Women's Rights and Duties in Classical Legal Literature" (in The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (Oxford University Press, 2024)), Mariam Sheibani (Brandeis University) "examines women's rights and obli…  | By islamiclawblog on July 19, 2024 | SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "Women's Rights and Duties in Classical Legal Literature" (in The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (Oxford University Press, 2024)), Mariam Sheibani (Brandeis University) "examines women's rights and obligations pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance in classical legal literature (8th to 18th century CE). It summarizes the classical doctrines on these topics according to the four Sunni legal schools and the Twelver Shi'i school. . . ."
- In "Muslims and Unofficial Islamic Law (Shari'a) Debates in the West" (in Muslim Legal Pluralism in the West (Springer, 2024)), Ihsan Yilmaz (Deakin University, Australia) and Denitsa Pirinova Sokolova-Shipoli (Georgetown University) "examine[] how the Islamic legal tradition accommodates the needs of Western Muslims living in the United States, Europe, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia."
- In Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an (Oxford University Press, 2024), Dr. Karen Bauer and Dr. Feras Hamza (Institute of Ismaili Studies) "study households and patronage in the Qur'an and . . . show how Qur'anic theology, ethics and law seek to refashion these late antique social structures."
On Islam and Data Science 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: - Manuscripts from Haveford College can be accessed online through a webpage maintained by the Digital Library of the Middle East. The online collection comprises more than 30 manuscripts.
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- Call for Papers: "Islamic Law and Social Movements," 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), September 9, 2024.
- Call for Proposals: Hot Topics Program, 2025 Association of American Law Schools Meeting, October 14, 2024.
- Conference: Law, colonialism and gender in the Muslim world, December 19-20, 2024.
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- 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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