SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Relative Lenience or Strictness of the Sunni Schools of Law" (Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta), Christopher Melchert (University of Oxford) examines "al-Mīzān," a "survey of agreements and disagreements among the S…  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "The Relative Lenience or Strictness of the Sunni Schools of Law" (Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta), Christopher Melchert (University of Oxford) examines "al-Mīzān," a "survey of agreements and disagreements among the Sunni schools of law" by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Aḥmad al‑Shaʿrānī (d. Cairo, 973/1565) that "locates the rules of the different schools on a spectrum from lenient to strict, suggesting that a believer may choose whichever suits his situation."
- In "Doctrinal Change in Mālikī Law: the Case of Judicial Divorce On Account of Harm (ḍarar)" (Journal of Comparative Legal History), Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) "explores doctrinal change in Mālikī law. Using the example of the distinctly Mālikī doctrine of a wife's right to judicial divorce based on harm (ḍarar), [he] explores how this rule became the basic position of the school by no later than the 8th/14th century when Khalīl b. Isḥāq included it in his authoritative Restatement of Mālikī law."
On Islam and AI/Data Science 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 University of Utah's digitized, open-access "Arabic Papyrus, Parchment & Paper Collection is the largest of its kind in the United States, containing 770 Arabic papyrus documents, 1300 Arabic paper documents, and several pieces on parchment. . . . A large number of pieces date to the period between 700 and 850 CE. The collection includes a significant number of documents from the pre-Ottoman period and thus offers unique source material on the political, economic, religious and intellectual life of Egypt during the first two centuries of Islamic rule and the period up to Ottoman domination."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Opportunities: 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
- Position Opening: 4-year postdoc, Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Marburg, 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
- Call for Papers: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (MEIS) Graduate Student Virtual Symposium, University of Alberta, February 2, 2026
- Position Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle East, Colby College, July 1, 2026
Events: - 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
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