ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa . . . reinstated the post of Grand Mufti and established a new Supreme Fatwa Council, according to a decree released by the Syrian presidency. Under Presidential Decree No. 8 of 2025, prominent…  | By islamiclawblog on April 7, 2025 | ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - "Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa . . . reinstated the post of Grand Mufti and established a new Supreme Fatwa Council, according to a decree released by the Syrian presidency. Under Presidential Decree No. 8 of 2025, prominent cleric Sheikh Osama al-Rifa'i was appointed as Grand Mufti of Syria and named head of the newly-created council, which includes 15 senior scholars mostly from Damascus."
- "Funded by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), Human Access for Partnership and Development association launched the Zakat al-Fitr Distribution Project for this year 1446 AH - 2025 [in Yemen]."
- "The U.N. Security Council told Afghanistan's Taliban rulers . . . that peace and prosperity are 'unattainable' until they reverse their bans on women and girls getting an education, being employed and speaking in public."
- "The Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, declared . . . that Afghanistan has no need for Western legal systems, asserting that Islamic sharia law is fully in effect and that democracy has ended in the country." 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."
- "Egypt's Dar al-Ifta issued a statement on Saturday evening following confusion over why Monday has been set as the first day of Eid al-Fitr."
- "Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government . . . appointing 23 ministers in a broadened cabinet seen as a key milestone in the transition from decades of Assad family rule and to improving Syria's ties with the West. . . . Earlier this month, Syria issued a constitutional declaration, designed to serve as the foundation for the interim period led by Sharaa. The declaration kept a central role for Islamic law and guaranteed women's rights and freedom of expression." For an automated translation of the declaration, consult our SHARIAsource portal here.
- In India, "Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin moved a resolution in the Assembly opposing the Union Government's proposed Waqf Bill amendments, calling them anti-minority."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - "The Iranian regime's Assembly of Experts has doubled down on enforcing the mandatory hijab, issuing a statement urging authorities to take decisive action against so-called cultural deviations. The Council declared on March 16 that officials must 'stand firm against enemy plots, particularly regarding chastity and hijab,' calling for intensified crackdowns against women defying the strict dress code."
- "Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has filed a petition with the Supreme Court requesting the suspension of the ban on dealings with the Taliban, pro-government media outlet Interfax reported on March 31."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - 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.
- Call for Managing Editor: Program in Islamic Law, 2025-2026, April 30, 2025.
- Workshop: Parchment, Paper, Inks, and Gold, The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Art Museums, May 1, 2025.
- Workshop: Workshop on Libraries, Manuscripts, Readers and Patrons in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate World, The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and Houghton Library, May 5-7, 2025 (Deadline: April 6, 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: - 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).
- Lecture: Calligraphy, Meet Street Art, Ubaydallah Ahmad and Ismael Muhammad Nieves, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, April 27, 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).
- Workshop: "From Classical ML to AI in Arabic and Islamic Studies," Hamburg University, July 1-4, 2025 (Deadline: April 30, 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).
- Conference: 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, University of Pittsburgh, November 5-7, 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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