SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Female Genital Mutilation Regulations In Indonesia: The International Law, Human Rights, and Islamic Law Perspectives" (Uti Possidetis: Journal of International Law 6, no. 1 (2025)), Geofani Lingga and …  | By islamiclawblog on March 21, 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "The Female Genital Mutilation Regulations In Indonesia: The International Law, Human Rights, and Islamic Law Perspectives" (Uti Possidetis: Journal of International Law 6, no. 1 (2025)), Geofani Lingga and Shihaf Ismi Salman Najib (University of Islam Malang, Malang, Indonesia) "analyzes the practice of female genital mutilation in Indonesia from the perspective of international law, human rights, and Islamic law," finding that "national regulations such as Minister of Health Regulation No. 1636 of 2010 and Minister of Health Regulation No. 6 of 2014 have contained provisions regarding the practice of female genital mutilation, but have not provided comprehensive protection for women in the implementation of this practice."
- In "The Transformation of Ghanimah as a Modern Fiscal Instrument: An Epistemological Analysis of Islamic Law" (American Journal of Economic and Management Business 4, no. 1 (2025)), Agus Rojak Samsudin (Institut Agama Islam Al-Zaytun Indonesia, Indramayu, Jawa Barat, Indonesia) and others "explore[] the transformation of the ghanimah concept into a modern fiscal instrument relevant to managing assets from extraordinary crimes such as corruption and money laundering. Using the qiyas approach, the study compares the principles of ghanimah in classical Islamic law with modern asset confiscation mechanisms as outlined in the Asset Confiscation Bill in Indonesia."
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Islam: Building Ethics and Solutions Based on Tawhid" (Proceeding of the International Conference on Religious Education and Cross-Cultural Understanding 1, no. 1 (2025)), Mamdukh Budiman (Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang) and others "explore[] the application of Islamic ethics, particularly the concept of tawhid, in the development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)."
Scholar Updates - In an interview with Times of India, Mahmood Kooria, "who is currently teaching at Edinburgh University, talk[ed] about the dynamic concept of Oceanic Islam, the historical cosmopolitanism of 16th-century Malabar, and the diversity of Islamic practices across the Indian Ocean region, among other things."
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: UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - Talk: "On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran" with Bahman Khodadadi, Harvard University, March 25, 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.
- Prize: Undergraduate Thesis Prize, The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, April 11, 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.
- Workshop: Parchment, Paper, Inks, and Gold, The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Art Museums, May 1, 2025.
- Prize: Doctoral Dissertation Prize, The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, May 16, 2025.
- Fellowship: May-Crane Fellowships, Harvard University 2025 (deadline to be announced).
Calendar: - Award: 2025 LCH Julien Mezey Dissertation Award, March 15, 2025.
- Online Talk: "The Constitutional Imagination of the Taliban in Afghanistan" with Shamsad Pasarlay, Florida State University, March 20, 2025.
- IISMM Seminar Series: "Waqf: a component of civil society strategies," IISMM, France (remote option), March 21, 2025.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, March 26, 2025.
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant: "(De)Colonizing Sharia?" Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt (Deadline: March 31, 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).
- Grant: MESA Global Academy 2025 – 2026 Application, May 1, 2025.
- Workshop: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, May 1-3, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: February 5, 2025).
- 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.
- Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, August 18-29, 2025 (Application deadline: May 5, 2025).
- Faculty Fellow: Faculty Fellow in Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 2025-2026, September 1, 2025 (Deadline: March 24, 2025).
- Call for Papers: ASLH 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, November 13-15, 2025 (Deadline: March 25, 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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