SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Criminal Offense of Abortion Due to Rape from the Perspective of Islamic Criminal Law" (Syiah Kuala Law Journal 8, no. 3 (2024)), Dahlan Almas Harefa and Ishaq Ishaq (Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara …  | By islamiclawblog on January 10, 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "Criminal Offense of Abortion Due to Rape from the Perspective of Islamic Criminal Law" (Syiah Kuala Law Journal 8, no. 3 (2024)), Dahlan Almas Harefa and Ishaq Ishaq (Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara Medan) "examine how abortion due to rape is viewed under positive law and Islamic law," finding that "abortion is fundamentally considered haram (forbidden) in Islamic law. However, scholars from the Hanafi and Hanbali schools, along with Imam Nawawi, permit abortion before the fetus reaches 120 days if there are valid reasons, such as when a doctor predicts that continuing the pregnancy would endanger the mother's life or in cases of rape." For more content and context on debates surrounding the compatibility of abortion with Islamic law, consult our "Resource Roundup: Abortion and Islamic Law."
- In "Sharia in Moroccan Law: a perpetual source and guiding reference" (Legality: Jurnal Ilmiah Hukum 33, no. 1 (2025)), Souad Ezzerouali (College of Law, Dhofar University, Sultanate of Oman) and others "examine[] the role of Sharia in the Moroccan legal system, assessing whether it serves as a fundamental source of legislation or merely a reference." "Findings show that Sharia is a crucial source for personal status matters in Morocco and a supplementary reference in other legal areas, with the Commander of the Faithful (Amir al-Mu'minin) maintaining this balance."
- In "Discretionary Care: Prisons, Bureaucratic Violence, and the Uses of Psychiatry in Pakistan" (Journal of Legal Anthropology 8, no. 1 (2024)), Sanaullah Khan (University of Akron) observes that "[f]ollowing changes in law and court practices in Pakistan, individuals who have been incarcerated and have mental illnesses in Pakistan experience changing forms of bureaucratic violence as they undergo psychiatric screening."
- Alexander Marcus (Franklin and Marshall College) reviews Andrew D. Magnusson's (University of Central Oklahoma) Zoroastrians in Early Islamic History: Accommodation and Memory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022) in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
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: - Javānān-i Imrūz ("Today's Youth") was a mid-20th-century Persian magazine that addressed youth culture, education, women's roles, and the tension between tradition and modernization in Pahlavi-era Iran. Reflecting state-led reforms, it shaped debates on identity, nationalism, and secularism, presenting the youth as key to Iran's future.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - 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: - 2025 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 7-11, 2025.
- Hurst Summer Institute 2025, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, January 15, 2025.
- 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.
- Fellowship: The University Center for Human Values in Law and Normative Thinking 2025-26, Princeton University, January 22, 2025.
- BRAIS Prize 2025: Call for Submissions, January 24, 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.
- Call for Abstracts: Middle East Medievalists, November 22-25 (Deadline: February 5, 2025).
- Writing Workshop: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Graduate Student Writing Workshop, February 27-28, 2025 (Application deadline: January 3, 2025).
- Conference: The 2025 Annual Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS, Lahore, April 18-20, 2025.
- Workshop: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, May 1-3, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: February 5, 2024).
- Call for Papers: " Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy," University of Villanova School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 5-6, 2025 (Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2025).
- 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).
- LSA 2025 Annual Meeting: Chicago, Illinois from May 22-25, 2025 (Early registration: December 3, 2024; registration: January 3, 2025).
- Conference: Law, Culture, and Humanities 27th Annual Conference, Georgetown University, June 17-18, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 31, 2025).
- Conference: The Middle Ages in the Modern World, London Strand Campus, King's College London, June 24-26, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 13, 2025).
- Summer Language Intensive Program: Istanbul University Institute for Islamic Studies, July 7 – August 8, 2025.
- Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2025.
- Position opening: Senior Lecturer in Law, History, and Society, Vanderbilt University, 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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