SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Advancing Women's Social and Political Rights Through a Reinterpretation of Islamic Law: Ayatollah Jannaati's View of Female Political Authority in Shiite Islam" (Digest of Middle East Studies, January 12, 2…  | By islamiclawblog on January 24, 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "Advancing Women's Social and Political Rights Through a Reinterpretation of Islamic Law: Ayatollah Jannaati's View of Female Political Authority in Shiite Islam" (Digest of Middle East Studies, January 12, 2025), Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi (Aarhus University, Denmark) describes Ayatollah Jannaati's views on Islamic law, describing him as "one of Iran's leading Shiite Muslim jurisprudents to call for a review of women's rights, based on dynamic jurisprudence, and declar[ing] that women, just like men, may hold the highest religious, political, and social positions in Islamic countries, and enjoy equal rights."
- In "A Multifaceted Analysis of Land Acquisition Act 1894: Unpacking Legal, Religious and Social Implications" (Dialogue Social Science Review 3, no. 1 (2025)), Naveed Hussain and Yasir Arfat (University of Gujrat) "focus on the Compulsory land acquisition law [India] that disowns the individuals from their properties and assets which are constitutionally protected."
- In "Plasma core analysis in Islamic law perspective: a systematic review of the literature" (Islam in World Perspectives Symposium 5, no. 1 (2025)), Sheylla Aqsa Bernadhita and Lukmanul Hakim (Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Indonesia) conduct a literature review that examines the contractual frameworks utilized in Plasma Core partnerships within the context of Islamic law.
On Islam and Data Science - In "Investigating the key drivers of client affiliation to Islamic banking in Oman" (Journal of Islamic Marketing 16, no. 1 (2025)), Sufian Abdel-Gadir and Muhammad Masum Billah (Department of Private Law, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman), using "[i]nformation [that] was gathered through studies directed to clients of Islamic banks in Oman," "explore the perception, satisfaction, awareness and attitude levels of clients towards Islamic banking in Oman."
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: - Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE is a project that "aims to propose the first rigorously historical model for how, when and why the Imamate emerged and developed as an institution. Members ImBod team will be assigned particular thematic spheres in order to identify and study the networks, actors, institutions, spaces, objects and processes through which the Imamate was mediated and performed within the Imami Shiʿi community and beyond."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - 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: - 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).
- Lecture: "Law, Ethics, and the History of the Islamic Marriage Contract" with Marion Holmes Katz, University of California Irvine, February 13, 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: 39th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, May 2-3, 2025 (Deadline: January 31, 2025).
- 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).
- 2025 Hurst Summer Institute: Legal History, University of Wisconsin Law School, June 15-27, 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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