 SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "Impaired Foundations, Perduring Law: The Meaning and Aims of Māwardī's al-Aḥkām al-sulṭāniyya" (Islamic Law and Society), Daniel Lav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) notes that Māwardī's "treatise aimed at legitimation of contemporary governmental structure and practice by subsuming them under the legal structure of the historical caliphate, as argued by H.A.R. Gibb. The present article supports this interpretation and seeks to substantiate it through analysis of the topics of delegation of powers in Māwardī's theory and his treatment of substantive issues of administration."
- In "Two-Layered Sharīʿa: A Shiʿi Distinction Between Farāʾiḍ and Sunan Laws" (Islamic Law and Society), Kumail Rajani (University of Exeter) "examines the historical background of the distinction between farāʾiḍ and sunan laws in early Shiʿi hadith literature."
- In "The Ethics of Aesthetics: Legal Reasoning, Sacred Space, and the Politics of Renovation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mecca" (Islamic Law and Society), Yahya Nurgat (Sabancı University) "examines two treatises by the Shāfiʿī jurists Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād, who held differing positions on the legality of Ottoman plans to rebuild part of the Kaʿba's roof in 959/1551–52" and "situate[s] their disagreement within broader Shāfiʿī debates about the legal status of sacred architecture, the inviolability of the Kaʿba, and the limits of dynastic authority over sacred spaces." [login required]
- In "Saudi Arabia's Gendered-Judicial Reform and the New Personal Status Law: Profound Change or Gender Washing?" (Islamic Law and Society), Elad Giladi (University of Haifa) "examines the socio-cultural and legal reforms in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the 2022 Personal Status Law (psl) as part of Crown Prince Muḥammad bin Salmān's gendered-judicial reforms" and argues that "while the psl does enhance women's rights and signals progress toward Vision 2030, it simultaneously perpetuates patriarchal structures, reflecting a strategic modernization that balances societal demands with the monarchy's interests."
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "From Principles To Practice: A Ḥanafī Framework for Ethical and Adaptive Artificial Intelligence" (master's thesis), Mahwish Zafar (University of British Columbia) examines "how Ḥanafī legal methodology can inspire more robust and ethically grounded artificial intelligence systems. Using hermeneutic textual analysis informed by Gadamer's fusion of horizons and Latour's Actor-Network Theory, this study analyzes classical Ḥanafī legal sources and contemporary scholarship alongside foundational AI literature. The research focuses on two key mechanisms: the qaṭʿī/ẓannī epistemological framework for evaluating certainty and managing uncertainty, and istiḥsān as a method for principled departure from precedent when rigid application yields inequitable outcomes."
- In "Reinterpreting Islamic Communication Ethics in the Context of AI-Driven Media" (International Conference on Islam and Society 2025), Muhammad Haramain (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare) and others reinterpret "Islamic communication ethics through a normative philosophical approach to address the ethical challenges of AI-driven media" and propose "a reconstructed framework of Islamic AI Communication Ethics (IACE) integrating ontological unity, normative virtue, and practical accountability."
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: UPCOMING EVENTS & 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 Papers: Muslims in AI, Imperial College London, November 16, 2025
- 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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