SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Between Law and Politics: Islamic Judges in the South Indian Littoral, 1808–1885" (Law and History Review), Saumyashree Ghosh (Yale Law School) "offers a fresh account of the colonial processes that … Read on blog or Reader Islamic Law Blog Read on blog or Reader Weekend Scholarship Roundup October 24, 2025 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Between Law and Politics: Islamic Judges in the South Indian Littoral, 1808–1885" (Law and History Review), Saumyashree Ghosh (Yale Law School) "offers a fresh account of the colonial processes that upended Muslim juridical regimes in South Asia between 1808 and 1885." In Inside Salafi-Jihadist Governance: The Strategies and Characteristics of Islamist Insurgent Rule (Columbia University Press), Marta Furlan (University of St Andrews) "assesses whether there is a single model of Salafi-jihadist governance, the degree to which ideology and doctrine inform the behavior of rebel rulers, and the similarities and differences between Salafi-jihadists and other armed nonstate groups." On Islam and AI/Data Science In "Noor: A Pipeline Framework for Classical Arabic Parsing" (IEEE Access), Wadee A. Nashir (Digital Dhad) and others announce "the creation and public release of the Quranic Treebank—the first complete, validated, and fully machine-readable hybrid syntactic resource for [classical Arabic], reconstructed and augmented using the Noor framework." In "Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Knowledge Question Answering" (QIAS 2025), Muhammad Abu Ahmad (University of Osnabrück) and others "developed a hybrid retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that combines sparse and dense retrieval methods with cross-encoder reranking to improve large language model (LLM) performance" on tasks involving "Islamic knowledge understanding and reasoning." 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) offers images and descriptions of more than 1,300 manuscripts within its Islamic Art collection. The corpus includes works from the 1st/7th to 13th/20th centuries in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Urdu, and other languages. UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events:  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: 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  Comment

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