ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Datuk Mohd Na'im Mokhtar, Malaysia's Islamic affairs minister, recently clarified that "[p]ublic caning for Shariah offences is carried out outside the confines of prison in a closed-door setting." "The League of Imams a…  | By islamiclawblog on February 24, 2025 | ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - Datuk Mohd Na'im Mokhtar, Malaysia's Islamic affairs minister, recently clarified that "[p]ublic caning for Shariah offences is carried out outside the confines of prison in a closed-door setting."
- "The League of Imams and Alfas in Yorubaland [West Africa] has declared that Ramadan 1446 AH (2025) will begin on Saturday, March 1, 2025, breaking away from the long-standing tradition of waiting for the Sultan of Sokoto's official announcement."
- "Afghanistan rejected disbanding its Ministry of Vice and Virtue, despite appeals from foreign ministers from several European countries, as well as Canada and Australia, local TOLO News reported on Sunday. Saif-ul-Islam Khyber, spokesman for the Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said the ministry serves the needs of the Afghan people and functions under the principles of 'Islamic Sharia.'"
- Afghanistan also "rejected the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their country, declaring as 'unlawful' the decision in 2003 by their predecessors to join the Hague-based court's founding treaty. The decision follows the ICC chief prosecutor's announcement last month, seeking arrest warrants for the reclusive Taliban supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and a close associate, accusing them both of being 'criminally responsible for persecuting Afghan girls and women.'" "Accusing the ICC of political bias, the Taliban claimed the court 'is not founded on justice and fairness' and dismissed Afghanistan's previous membership in the ICC as legally invalid."
- Commenting on human rights and especially women's rights in Afghanistan, Massooda Jalal, "a 61-year-old medical doctor who served as Afghanistan's women's affairs minister from 2004 to 2006, insisted that 'there is a way to replace the darkness with the light.'"
- "High-ranking officials of the Taliban-led interim government of Afghanistan, including deputy economy minister Abdul Latif Nazari, have visited Japan at the invitation of the nonprofit Nippon Foundation. With women in Afghanistan 'forced to live in a severe environment,' [an] official said the visit is also expected to help develop a 'broad vision toward nation building.'" 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."
- "The third international conference titled 'International Humanitarian Law in View of Islamic Jurisprudence' kicked off at Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre on Monday. The conference aims to explore the relationship between international humanitarian law and the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (law), with special emphasis on issues related to armed conflicts and the protection of human rights in times of war."
- It has been reported that "[t]he Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), an international autonomous non-profit organization that sets the standards in the Islamic finance space, is considering new guidelines on sukuk, Standard 62, that could transform how fixed-income sukuk are structured and distributed."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - In India, "[r]esidents of Kumarsanda village in West Bengal's Rampurhat sub-division claimed that a 'fatwa banning music and band parties' during any marriage or celebration was issued by 'senior people' at the local madrasa last Saturday. The residents claimed that the 'fatwa' also bans alcohol, gambling and 'ganja'. It was allegedly circulated via social media apps like WhatsApp. It reportedly carried a warning saying that if any of the residents 'do not follow the fatwa,' they would have to pay a fine of Rs 10,000, and their families would be shunned and denied access to the masjid."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop: Youssef Ben Ismail (Amherst College), "Autonomous Subjects: Genealogies of Equality and Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire," February 24, 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.
- Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop: "Law and Sufism in Modern South Asia." with M. Qasim Zaman (Princeton University), April 1, 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.
- Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop: Latifeh Aavani (Harvard University), "The Global Codification Movement and the Development of Legal Reforms in 19th-Century Iran," April 14, 2025.
- Fellowship: May-Crane Fellowships, Harvard University 2025 (deadline to be announced).
Calendar: - Zoom Panel: Christian, Jewish, Islamic & Secular Law in American & International History, February 27, 2025.
- Writing Workshop: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Graduate Student Writing Workshop, February 27-28, 2025 (Application deadline: January 3, 2025).
- IISMM Seminar Series: "Properties of the founders of waqfs; waqfs of families," IISMM, France (remote option), February 28, 2025.
- Scholarship: Türkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) Fully Funded International Undergraduate Scholarship for Islamic Students 2025, February 28, 2025.
- Award: 2025 LCH Julien Mezey Dissertation Award, March 15, 2025.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, March 26, 2025.
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Legal Research & Analysis, volume 3, issue 1, April 15, 2025.
- IISMM Seminar Series: "The Economics of Waqf: From the Imperial to the Personal," IISMM, France (remote option), April 18, 2025.
- Conference: The 2025 Annual Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS, Lahore, April 18-20, 2025.
- Symposium: 12th Annual Graduate Symposium, hosted by the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Student Council (MIISSC), Montreal, April 24, 2025 (deadline February 17, 2025).
- Call for Papers: Symposium on Legal Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Royal Holloway University University of London, April 30, 2025 (deadline March 15, 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).
- IISMM Seminar Series: "From Jerusalem to India: Endowments and Gender Influences," IISMM, France, May 16, 2025.
- LSA 2025 Annual Meeting: Chicago, Illinois from May 22-25, 2025 (Early registration: December 3, 2024; registration: January 3, 2025).
- Call for Papers: "Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework," ESIL IG, Paris, June 6-7, 2025 (deadline February 28, 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).
- IISMM Seminar Series: "Waqfs, women and circles of power," IISMM, France (remote option), June 20, 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 (Proposal deadline: February 13, 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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