ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting, "Amina J. Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, stated that support for the rights of Afghan women must be expanded." "The Islamic Emirate has not yet comme…  | By islamiclawblog on October 28, 2024 | ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting, "Amina J. Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, stated that support for the rights of Afghan women must be expanded." "The Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on this; however, it has consistently denied allegations of violating women's rights in the country, asserting that all women's rights are protected under Islamic law."
- "An Afghan province has banned all media from showing images of living things to ensure compliance with the Taliban's morality laws." 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."
- "Saudi Arabia executed seven people on Wednesday, including five for drug trafficking, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said.The deaths brought the total number of executions carried out this year in the Gulf kingdom to 236, according to an AFP tally based on official statements." For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb's "Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law." For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our "Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup."
- "The top adviser of Pakatan Harapan's component Amanah [Malaysia] has backed a controversial bill that would grant unprecedented powers to the Federal Territories mufti, a stand likely to pit the ruling party against Muslim scholars, religious groups and rights lawyers who have spoken out against the proposed law. Ahmad Awang also defended one of the main contentious points in the Mufti (Federal Territories) Bill 2024, which stipulates that only a person belonging to certain streams within the Sunni school of thought can hold the office of the FT mufti, a position that comes with sweeping powers that will be binding on all Muslims if the bill is passed."
- According to some scholars who have criticized the Mufti (Federal Territories) Bill 2024 [Malaysia], "[i]n Islam, a fatwa has always been a non-binding opinion issued by a shariah scholar on matters of Islamic law and practice. It was never intended to have any legal consequence in the nature of punishment imposed on a Muslim. But all that will change if the Mufti (Federal Territories) Bill 2024 is passed into law by Parliament. In my view, the proposal to turn fatwas into enforceable laws is a direct attack on the spine of the Federal Constitution itself."
- "The House of Representatives [of Nigeria], rejected a bill seeking to expand Islamic law in the 1999 constitution.The constitutional amendment bill sponsored by Aliyu Missau, intended to amend sections 24, 262, 277, and 288 of the 1999 constitution by removing the word 'personal' wherever 'Islamic law' is mentioned. . . . Leading the debate, Missau said the inclusion of the word "personal" after "Islamic" restricts its application, especially on Islamic commercial laws. "Opposing the bill, Solomon Bob from Rivers argued that the amendment would expand the application of Islamic law beyond the 'personal matters' intended by the framers of the Constitution."
CASES AND FATWĀS - "The fatwa, declaring the beliefs, teachings and practices of members of GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) and its affiliates as deviating from the true Islamic teachings, has been gazetted and published in the Selangor State Government [Malaysia] Gazette."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - Talk: "Faith, Work, and the Law with Jonathan Berry," Harvard Law School, October 29, 2024.
- Seminar: "Travel Writing and the Production of a Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" by Daniel Majchrowicz, Harvard University, November 6, 2024.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: "Islamic Apocalyptic Jurisprudence: End-Times Law in Sunnī and Shīʿī Discourses" by Ali Rod Khadem, Program in Islamic Law, November 12, 2024.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: "On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran," Bahman Khodadadi, Program in Islamic Law, December 10, 2024.
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law Special Issue, January 13, 2025.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: "The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024)," Malika Zeghal, Program in Islamic Law, February 11, 2025.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: "The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam" by Mohsen Kadivar, Program in Islamic Law, March 11, 2025.
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: "A Cultural History of the Arabic Book: Digital Explorations of Writerly Practices and Text Reuse" by Sarah Savant, Program in Islamic Law, April 8, 2025.
Calendar: - Talk: "Unsettlements: History of Land Reclamation in British Mandate of Palestine" with Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Stanford University, October 28, 2024.
- Talk: "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, October 29, 2024.
- Discussion: Comparison and Scalar Reading: Niqula al-Haddad's Translation of Ignatious Donnelly's Caesar's Column, a Tale of the 20th Century, Europe in the Middle East, October 30, 2024.
- Webinar: "The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa" with Malika Zeghal, Brandeis University, October 30, 2024.
- Panel: Islamophobia & the Law, University of Cincinnati, October 30, 2024.
- Call for Proposals: Elements Series on Law and Religion, The Center for the Study of Law and Religion, October 31, 2024.
- EUME Berliner Seminar: "Conflicting Legacies of the 1858 Ottoman Land Law: A View from Palestine" by Munir Fakher Eldin, November 6, 2024.
- Workshop: "Sites of Encounter in the Muslim World: Cairo & Delhi," UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 7, 2024.
- Panel: "The Legacies of Anti-colonial Struggle in Algeria: A Panel Honoring the Life and Activism of Elaine Mokhtefi," UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 8, 2024.
- Conference: "Perspectives on the Development of Islamic Law: Philosophy of Law & Islamic Medical Ethics," Humbold University, Berlin, November 8-9, 2024.
- Conference: 2024 CILIS Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference, Melbourne Law School, November 12, 2024.
- Position opening: Associate/Full Professor – Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies, UMass Amherst, November 15, 2024.
- EUME Berliner Seminar: "Law, Litigation, and Politics of Legitimization: On the Possibilities and Limits of Palestinian Legal Action in Israel" by Suhad Bishara, November 20, 2024.
- Book Roundtable: "Order and Disorder in the Ottoman Empire," UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 22, 2024.
- Fellowship: Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization, 2025-2026, Yale Law School (Deadline: November 30, 2024).
- Conference: 12th Global Islamic Microfinance Forum, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, December 2-4, 2024.
- Conference: Law, colonialism and gender in the Muslim world, December 19-20, 2024.
- EUME Berliner Seminar: "The Politics of Choice: The 2003 Entry Law to Israel, the Phenomenology of Singlehood and Love Across Borders Among Palestinians" by Towibah Majdub, January 22, 2025.
- Call for Editors: Law & Society Review, 2025-2026, February 1, 2025.
- Call for Editors: Book Review Editor for Law & Society Review, 2025-2026, February 1, 2025.
- Workshop: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, May 1-3, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: February 5, 2024).
- Conference: Eleventh Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Queen Mary University, UK, May 8-10, 2025 (Paper proposals: October 31, 2024; Panel proposals: November 30, 2024).
- Conference: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 22-25, 2025 (Registration: January 3, 2025).
- Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2025.
- 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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