SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Analysis of the Term Hudud in the Quran: the Application in Islamic Criminal Law and Its Significance in the Modern Context" (al-Bayan: Journal of Qur'an and Hadith Studies), Siti Zubaidah Ismail (University…  | By islamiclawblog on August 15, 2025 |  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "Classifying Authenticity of Prophet's Statements Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques" (Intelligent Systems and Advanced Computing Sciences), Abdesslam Essayad (University Ibn Zohr, Agadir) and others "present a method for...analyzing the style of the Prophet Muhammad's wordings and evaluating the performance of machine learning (ML) techniques for the classification of hadith authenticity...[using] a BERT-based model, which is a ML framework for natural language processing (NLP) designed to capture the contextual relationships between the words in the hadith." [login required]
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: - "The Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research (DAL) is an easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research...[providing] easy access to detailed, annotated and content-enriched bibliographic records of books, articles, chapters of books and reviews written in English since the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in the West."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES Calendar: - 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: "Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities," North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies, November 20, 2025 (Deadline: July 11, 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).
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Trends in Intellectual Property Research, Volume 3, Issue 2, December 29, 2025
- Call for Submissions: Journal of Legal Research & Analysis, Volume 3, Issue 2, December 29, 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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