SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2024), edited by Edmund Hayes and Petra M. Sijpesteijn (Leiden University), poses one central thesis: "that the early Isla…  | By islamiclawblog on February 14, 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2024), edited by Edmund Hayes and Petra M. Sijpesteijn (Leiden University), poses one central thesis: "that the early Islamic empire was tied together by networks of social dependency that can be tracked through the linguistic and material traces of interconnectivity in our sources.
- In Ethics and Analogy (Qiyās) in 5th/11th-Century Islamic Legal Theory (Brill, 2025) Felicitas Opwis (Georgetown University) "presents how ʿAbd al-Jabbār, Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī, al-Dabbūsī, al-Shīrāzī, and al-Juwaynī relate the ethical status of acts to their legal norm, and whether they apply the ethical content of divine rulings in the procedure of analogy when extending laws to new circumstances."
- In "Al Hassan Symposium - (Re) Introduction" (Lieber Institute West Point, February 5, 2025), Katharine Fortin (Utrecht University), Ezequiel Heffes (University of York) and Sean Watts (West Point) discuss the "trial judgment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Prosecutor v. Al Hassan. The case addressed charges relating to acts by Ansar Dine and Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AD/AQMI) between 2012 and 2013 while the groups exerted territorial and political control over Timbuktu, Mali."
- In "Personal Status Law and the end of secret divorce in Saudi Arabia" (LSE Blog, February 10, 2025), Beata Polok (Haqaiq Centre for Legal Studies at Prince Sultan University Riyadh) and Zubair Abbasi (University of London) argue that Saudi Arabia's new Personal Status Law "represents a paradigm shift in Saudi family law, reinforcing protections for women and modernising traditional structures within an Islamic framework. By ending practices such as the secret divorce and codifying the Islamic principles of family law, the Kingdom has introduced mechanisms that strengthen transparency, ensure fairer outcomes, and recognise the equal agency of women in marital and familial decisions."
On Islam and AI/Data Science On Islam and Social Science - In In "The Efforts to Decriminalize Article 549 of the Indonesian Criminal Code from the Perspective of Islamic Criminal Law" (Al-Adalah: Jurnal Hukum dan Politik Islam 10, no. 1), Puji Firmansyah and Ramadani Ramadani (Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara, Indonesia) "examine[] the decriminalization of Article 549 of the Indonesian Penal Code (KUHP) from the perspective of Islamic criminal law, focusing on livestock negligence in Sukadame Village, Silangkitang District, South Labuhan Batu Regency. The issue arises from unconfined livestock damaging private land, leading to legal disputes and calls for regulatory reform. This research aims to analyze the necessity of decriminalizing Article 549 KUHP by evaluating its application in local cases and comparing the legal framework of positive law and Islamic law regarding livestock negligence. " 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."
Scholar Updates - The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History announced that "Teresa Bernheimer (LMU, Munich) will be joining Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy as a series editor. Teresa is a historian of the Middle East in the period ca 600 to 1200 CE, and is particularly interested in the formation of Islam in the context of Late Antiquity and beyond. Teresa brings with her a wealth of editorial experience!"
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: - Ceride-i Mehâkim (Journal of the Courts) was an Ottoman legal periodical published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which served as a gazette for court decisions, legal reforms, and judicial administration within the Ottoman Empire.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - Fellowship: Pforzheimer Fellowships, Harvard University, February 21, 2025.
- 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: - Workshop: CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop – "What's in a Muslim Name?: Evidence from the USPTO" with Tabrez Ebrahim, February 21, 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.
- 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).
- 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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