SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "From Custodianship to Control: The Conflict Around Sacred Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean" (The Wire, June 12, 2025), K.M. Seethi (Mahatma Gandhi University), focusing on the situation in Egypt, argues th…  | By islamiclawblog on June 20, 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "From Custodianship to Control: The Conflict Around Sacred Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean" (The Wire, June 12, 2025), K.M. Seethi (Mahatma Gandhi University), focusing on the situation in Egypt, argues that "[i]n recent years, sacred sites across the Eastern Mediterranean have become flashpoints in a broader conflict between religious heritage and state power."
- In "Public Interest (Maslahat) in Shiʿi Theocracy: Implications for Legal and Political Decision-Making" (Iranian Studies, June 13, 2025), Bahman Khodadadi (Program in Islamic Law) "offers a comprehensive analysis of maslahat within Iran's legal system, exploring its mechanisms, applications, and implications, and highlighting its complex role in both advancing and potentially challenging the principles of Islamic law."
- In "Grounding the idea of renewal in Islamic thought, and collective iḥyā': a study from the perspectives of the philosophy of religion and fiqh" (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, June 17, 2025), Hüsamettin Yıldırım and Esra Gülengül (Firat University, Turkey) "aim[] to establish a holistic framework for rationally grounding the idea of renewal in Islam, specifically through the concept of iḥyāʾ."
On Islam and AI/Data Science 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: - Religious Studies: Islam is a library webpage maintained by the University of Memphis that provides a useful list of various databases and articles on Islam and Islamic law.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES Calendar: - 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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