ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "A state-level workshop on the protection of Waqf properties was held at the KMDC Bhavan [Karnataka Minority Development Corporation] in Bengaluru [India], where religious leaders, scholars, and activists emphasized that safe…  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - "A state-level workshop on the protection of Waqf properties was held at the KMDC Bhavan [Karnataka Minority Development Corporation] in Bengaluru [India], where religious leaders, scholars, and activists emphasized that safeguarding Waqf assets is a shared moral, religious, and social responsibility. The event, attended by more than 125 Waqf activists from across Karnataka, aimed to raise awareness about the preservation and digitization of Waqf properties through the Umeed Portal initiative."
- "Islamic trade finance (ITF), a sector powering over $2 trillion in annual trade flows, is entering its AI era. From compliance to risk assessment, artificial intelligence is automating the manual, time-consuming processes that have long slowed trade finance. With AI expected to add $320 billion to the Middle East GDP by 2030, ITF is poised to harness this technology for faster, more transparent and more Shariah-compliant transactions."
- "U.S. singer-songwriter Brittany Porter is demanding a 'proper divorce' after she says she unwittingly married a Malaysian sultan in a ceremony she assumed was simply a celebration of their engagement. . . . Porter claimed that while they were in Oman, Muhammad V flew her friends in for a religious ceremony. . . . [In her words,] 'They brought an imam out and I did the whole conversion, but he didn't teach me all that much about Islam...I only recently learned that a nikah constitutes a marriage under Islamic law.'"
- "Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has called for a broader understanding of zakat, describing it as a cornerstone for social justice and a vital tool in addressing extreme poverty in Malaysia."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - "Dr. Shabnam Fazli, a general surgeon at the Herat Regional Hospital [Afghanistan], was taken into custody by Taliban officials near the hospital earlier this week. . . . She has since been released. The incident follows new Taliban-imposed restrictions requiring female patients and doctors to wear the all-encompassing burqa in public hospitals. While the Taliban's directorate for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Herat has denied issuing such a directive, multiple eyewitnesses and hospital staff say enforcement has already begun." In another sartorial directive, the "Taliban have made it mandatory for male medical students in the southeastern province of Khost to wear turbans, according to several local sources familiar with the matter." For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief Professor Intisar Rabb's "Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law."
- In India, the Kerala High Court, "dismissing the plea of both husband and wife, upheld the sessions court's affirmation of the trial court's use of multiplier 10 for calculating the reasonable and fair provision and iddat maintenance of a Muslim divorced woman under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986."
- In a separate case, the Kerala High Court "held that a first wife must be given notice and an opportunity of hearing when a Muslim man seeks to register a second marriage under the Kerala Registration of Marriages (Common) Rules, 2008. Delivering judgment in Muhammad Shareef C & Anr. v. State of Kerala & Anr., decided on October 30, 2025, Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan declared that while Islamic personal law may permit a man to marry more than once, the law of the land and the Constitution must prevail when such a marriage is to be formally registered."
- "Nine mosques in Terengganu [Malaysia ]have been gazetted as official locations for the execution of caning sentences under shariah law outside prisons, which came into effect on November 20 last year. State Information, Dakwah and Shariah Empowerment Committee chairman (exco) Muhammad Khalil Abdul Hadi said the designation of these locations was made after receiving the consent of the Sultan of Terengganu, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, and the approval of the Terengganu Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (Maidam)." For more content and context on Islamic law in Malaysia, consult our Editor-in-Chief Professor Intisar Rabb's "Legislation and Regulation of Islamic Law in Malaysia" and its appended resource roundup.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - 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
PIL & Harvard Opportunities: Other Events: - 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 Applications: The Abdallah S. Kamel Center at the Yale Law School for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization 2026-2027 Research Fellowship, November 30, 2025
- Call for Papers: The Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, December 1, 2025
- Position Opening: Tenure-track/tenured open-rank faculty appointments in Legal Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi, December 1, 2025 @11:59pm
- 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 Submissions: Fusayfsa', the Smith College student-led Middle East Studies Journal, January 30th, 2026
- 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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