SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts" (Comparative Studies in Society and History), Tommaso Stefini (Sabancı Üniversitesi) "exami…  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts" (Comparative Studies in Society and History), Tommaso Stefini (Sabancı Üniversitesi) "examines the interrelations between the political economies of the Ottoman Empire and the administration of justice for European merchants in Ottoman cities during the seventeenth century. By focusing on the sultan's court of justice, the Imperial Council (divan-ı hümayun), and the Venetian merchants who appealed to it, this piece illustrates how Ottoman commercial interests and political concerns influenced the production and application of Islamic law."
- In "Analysis of Child Custody Following Divorce Caused by Apostasy Under Positive Law and Islamic Legal Frameworks (Case Study: Case No. 1189/Pdt.G/2023/PA.Tnk)" (Journal of Law and Economics), Brian Antonio (Universitas Esa Unggul) and Sri Pramudya Wardhani (Universitas Esa Unggul) examine a case in the Tangerang Religious Court to investigate "how Islamic civil law operates within Indonesia's judicial framework, particularly when religious conversion becomes a determining factor in custody arrangements."
- In "Peace as a Legal Presumption in Islamic Law: Territoriality, Nationality, and the Promise of International Law" (Islamic Law and Society), Samy Ayoub (University of Texas at Austin) demonstrates "how Islamic court judges and official muftīs drew upon international legal norms to adjudicate questions of nationality and legal protection. Their engagement marked a departure from earlier reliance on ikhtilāf al-dārayn, reflecting instead a juridical commitment to a treaty-based legal order founded on coexistence and mutual recognition." [login required]
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "BERT-based Classical Arabic Poetry Authorship Attribution" (International Conference on Computational Linguistics), Lama Alqurashi (University of Leeds) and others introduce "a novel computational approach to authorship attribution (AA) in Arabic poetry…. Leveraging a vast dataset that includes the entire corpus of Classical Arabic poetry and advanced computational methods, this work employs BERT, a state-of-the-art transformer-based model, fine-tuned on Arabic poetry."
- In "A Rule-Based System for Identifying Islamic Citation in LLM Outputs" (IslamicEval 2025), Fatimah Emad Eldin (Cairo University) "presents the Isnad AI system…which focuses on identifying character- level spans of Quranic verses (Ayahs) and Prophetic sayings (Hadiths) within Large Language Model (LLM) outputs."
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: - "Specialised Information Service (FID) Middle East-, North Africa- and Islamic Studies provides highly specialised research materials from the countries of the MENA region…. The Virtual Library MENALIB provides central access to our holdings, offers and services which are available to you via the discovery system MENAsearch." MENALIB's holdings include digitized full-text materials from the Middle East and North Africa, and bibliographic information for its physical collections.
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: - Lecture: "Law Between Self and Society: Collective Duties in Islamic Law—Past, Present, and Future" with Prof. Adnan A. Zulfiqar (Boston College Law), UC Irvine, November 5, 2025 @5:30pm
- 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
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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