SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Siyāsa in the Bahmani Sultanate and the Death of Maḥmūd Gāwān" (Islamic Law and Society, April 23, 2025), Meia Walravens (Trinity College Oxford) "takes up the study of the [Bahmani] sultanate's lega…  | By islamiclawblog on May 9, 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "Siyāsa in the Bahmani Sultanate and the Death of Maḥmūd Gāwān" (Islamic Law and Society, April 23, 2025), Meia Walravens (Trinity College Oxford) "takes up the study of the [Bahmani] sultanate's legal history through the topic of siyāsa, i.e. the sultanic power to judge over subjects independently and exercise discretion."
- In "Breaking barriers: Women in leadership in Iran" (Law360 Canada, May 1, 2025), Maria Mahmoudian (University of Toronto) argues that in Iran, gendered "expectations are reinforced by state-enforced legal codes rooted in a conservative interpretation of Islamic law, which explicitly restricts women's access to high-level political positions."
- In "Why does Hefazat fear women's rights more than usury?" (The Daily Star, May 7, 2025), Taqbir Huda (Harvard Law School) observes that "[o]ne important reason why gender reform provokes outsized outrage—while violations of Islamic prohibitions on riba (interest or usury), elite corruption, or exploitative labour markets do not—is that family law has historically been the only legal domain where Islamic law retained formal legitimacy under colonial rule."
- In "Slavery and the Forgotten History of Religious Liberty" (BYU Law Review, forthcoming), Audra Savage (Wake Forest University School of Law) "explor[es] the historical role played by law and religion in the development of slavery in America."
- In "Underage Marriage: Legal and Social Practice in Muslim Jurisdictions" (Arab Law Quarterly 2025),Dörthe Engelcke (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law), Dominik Krell (University of Oxford - Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), and Nadjma Yassari (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law) observe that "[i]n an effort to curb early marriage, a practice that involves predominantly girls, legislatures in Muslim jurisdictions have introduced a fixed legal age of marriage and have increased state oversight over the authorisation of early marriages."
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence: An Islamic Perspective" (Journal of Religion and Society 3, no. 1 (2025)), Dr. Khanzada Muhammad Waqar and others (Lecturer, Department of Seerat Studies, University of Peshawar) "explore[] the ethical implications of AI within the framework of Islamic teachings, emphasizing key concepts such as accountability (mas'ūliyya), justice (ʿadl), and the sanctity of human dignity."
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: - Global Islam is a webpage maintained by the Texas Tech University that contains a list of curates resources related to Islam, Islamic law, and Islamic history, among other subjects.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Calendar: - 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: - 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).
- Prize: Phanor J. Eder Prize in Comparative Law, Younger Comparativists Committee, June 13, 2025.
- 2025 Hurst Summer Institute: Legal History, University of Wisconsin Law School, June 15-27, 2025.
- Arabic Intensive Program: SABLA 2025 Summer Arabic Intensive Program, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., June 16 – July 17, 2025 (Deadline June 2, 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).
- Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series, American Society for Legal History, June 30, 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.
- Prize: Colin B. Picker Prize, Younger Comparativists Committee, August 15, 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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