SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In Dynamics of Tradition: Islamic Theology and Law in Relation (Brill), editors Idris Nassery and Muna Tatari invite readers to "explore how Islamic theology and law have shaped, challenged, and inspired eac…  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In Dynamics of Tradition: Islamic Theology and Law in Relation (Brill), editors Idris Nassery and Muna Tatari invite readers to "explore how Islamic theology and law have shaped, challenged, and inspired each other across centuries." Contributors include Mohammed Abdelrahem (Al-Azhar University), Ahmad Atif Ahmad (UC Santa Barbara), Maha El-Kaisy (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität), Mohammed Fadel (University of Toronto), Ramon Harvey (Cambridge Muslim College), Serdar Kurnaz (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Abdul Rahman Mustafa (Universität Paderborn), Najah Nadi (Cambridge Muslim College) and David Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma).
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "Binary Logic as Legal Algorithm: Computational Evidence of Systematic Decision-Making in Ottoman Sheikh al-Islam Fatwas" (DiHA: Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies), Ali Çetinkaya (Selçuk University) "establishes that nearly 87% of rulings follow binary prohibition/permission logic" and argues that "such systematic patterns, developed centuries before digital computing, suggest that algorithmic legal reasoning may represent an ancient practice rather than a modern innovation."
- In "Recognizing AI as a Legal Person in Iranian Law and Imāmiyya Fiqh" (Oxford Intersections: AI in Society Oxford Intersections: AI in Society, Oxford University Press), Mohammad Javad Zolghadr (Tarbiat Modares University) and Morteza Shahbazinia (Tarbiat Modares University) "illuminate the divergent perspectives and approaches toward AI personhood in two distinct legal traditions, aiming to identify the legal entities these two jurisdictions used to—legally—recognize a person." [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 Library of Congress hosts "Islamic Manuscripts from Mali," an online collection of "over 30 digitized manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha, both located in Timbuktu, Mali." The collection "showcases the wide variety of subjects covered by the written traditions of Timbuktu, Mali, and West Africa. The manuscripts are written in various styles of the Arabic script that were developed in Timbuktu and the surrounding regions of Mali and West Africa, and have long been recognized by Malians as an important look into their cultural heritage."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School), The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology, October 14, 2025 @12:30pm
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Prof. Houssem Chachia (University of Tunis), "The Conquest of Tunis (1535): Memory, Defeat, and Celebration Across Cultures," October 20, 2025 @6:15pm
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Ozkan Karabulut (Harvard University), "Scripturalization of the Alevi Mystical Poetry," November 3, 2025 @6:15pm
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: Youssef Belal (United Nations), "Thinking the World with Islamic Knowledges," November 11, 2025 @12:30pm
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Cem Turkoz (Harvard University), "Ottoman Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Context: The Evolution of the Canon," November 17, 2025 @6:15pm
Other Events: - Conference: Paris Congress at 125—Comparative Law's Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today, McGill University, Canada, October 16–18, 2025
- Conference: 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, University of Pittsburgh, November 5–7, 2025
- Conference: ASLH 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, November 13–15, 2025
- Conference: Muslims in AI, Imperial College London, November 16, 2025
- Conference: "Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities," North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies, November 20, 202
- Conference: International Conference "Poetry and Knowledge," University of Münster, November 20–22, 2025
- Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22–25, 2025
- Conference: Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law—An Interdisciplinary Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, February February 4–5, 2026
- Conference: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 24–27, 2026
- Workshop: The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, June 8–9, 2026
- Conference: Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Chicago, June 17–18, 2026
Other Opportunities: - Call for Papers: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, October 31, 2025
- Call for Papers: Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law—An Interdisciplinary Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, November 1, 2025
- Position Opening: Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Sharmin & Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University, November 3, 2025
- Call for Papers: Muslims in AI, Imperial College London, November 16, 2025
- Call for Papers: The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, December 1, 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
- Call for Papers: Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Chicago, January 31, 2026
- Position Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle East, Colby College, July 1, 2026
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