ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "The Grand Mufti [of Saudia Arabia] emphasized that performing Hajj without a permit constitutes a grave violation of Islamic law, as it violates the system and the public interest." Meanwhile, "Muslim students from the Islam…  | By islamiclawblog on June 16, 2025 |  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - "The Grand Mufti [of Saudia Arabia] emphasized that performing Hajj without a permit constitutes a grave violation of Islamic law, as it violates the system and the public interest." Meanwhile, "Muslim students from the Islamic University of Madinah in the Hejaz Region [have been asked to] participat[e] in the Hajj rituals of Hady and Adahi by offering guidance on animal sacrifice this weekend." "More than 1,000 furoda hajj pilgrims from Indonesia are disappointed as they fail to depart to the Holy Land this year. After spending hundreds of millions of rupiah, it turns out the Saudi Arabian Government decided not to issue furoda hajj visas this year."
- "Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance has intensified its digital broadcasting output throughout the current Hajj season, delivering comprehensive religious programming to serve pilgrims and global Muslim audiences via its official YouTube channel."
- Malaysia's Minister of Religious Affairs, Datuk Dr Mohd Na'im Mokhtar, "has described the use of tourist visas for fraudulent hajj packages as a grave crime, warranting stern action under both civil and Islamic law."
- "The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into a proposed North Texas development known as 'EPIC City,' a Muslim-led community project that has drawn scrutiny from state leaders and conservative activists despite not yet breaking ground."
- "Egypt's Islamic banking industry has recorded significant progress, with the total volume of sharia-compliant financial activities climbing to LE [Egyptian pound] 1.079 trillion by the end of March 2025."
- "An Iranian rights group voiced concern . . . at the fate of eight women and one man sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and urged the Islamic republic to halt their executions."
- "In 2023, the Islamic fintech market size was valued at $138 billionand is expected to more than double to $306 billion by 2027, with an impressive 17.3% year-on-year growth rate."
- "Taliban publicly flogged 11 people, including one woman, across three provinces over the weekend, continuing their enforcement of corporal punishment in defiance of international human rights outcry. According to separate statements issued by the Taliban's Supreme Court, the individuals were punished for alleged offenses including adultery, sodomy, murder, assault, and theft. The floggings took place in Kabul, Khost and Samangan provinces on Saturday." "The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett . . . condemned the growing use of public floggings by the Taliban and warned that no refugees should be forcibly returned to Afghanistan under such conditions." 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."
- Experts in Indonesia have stated that "[h]alal tourism in Indonesia, which has been pioneered since 2015, still has a problem: there is a misunderstanding in some circles about the nature and benefits of developing halal tourism. One part of the scope of halal tourism is the availability of sharia hotels."
- The United Kingdom "Parliament [will] debate a public petition to ban non-stun [animal] slaughter. Framed as a matter of animal welfare, the petition raises a deeper issue around the cultural othering of Muslim and Jewish communities in Britain."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - "In its latest conference in Doha, the International Islamic Fiqh Academy ruled that Muslims can consume cultivated meat if certain conditions are met."
- "A man and woman were publicly flogged 100 times each in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province . . . after they were found guilty of sex outside marriage by a court operating under strict Islamic law." 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."
- "Despite an uproar by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), President Asif Zardari has approved the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Child Marriage Restraint Bill, making the federal capital and Sindh the only regions in Pakistan where marriage under the age of 18, especially for girls, has been prohibited." "Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman . . . announced to hold nationwide protest rallies aimed at "creating awareness" among public." "[The law] has been challenged in the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) in Islamabad, arguing that it was against the Constitution as well as the tenets of Islam and should be abolished."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Calendar: - 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).
- Symposium: Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion Symposium, Coventry University, June 25, 2025.
- Wallace Johnson First Book Program, June 27, 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).
- Summer School on Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies, September 1-4, 2025, Switzerland (Deadline: June 13, 2025).
- Call for Proposals: Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law's Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today, McGill University, Canada, October 16-18, 2025 (Deadline: May 31, 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).
- Call for Papers: International Conference "Poetry and Knowledge," University of Münster, November 20-22, 2025 (Deadline: June 1, 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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