SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press), former PIL Fellow and Research Editor Mariam Sheibani (Brandeis University) "argues that th…  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press), former PIL Fellow and Research Editor Mariam Sheibani (Brandeis University) "argues that the rich legal history of the post-formative period and the Islamic legal philosophy that developed in it have been comparatively neglected. This innovative study traces the ethical turn in medieval Islamic legal philosophy through the pioneering work of the prominent jurist and legal philosopher Izz al-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 660/1262). Sheibani demonstrates how Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām advanced a comprehensive analysis of the law's purposive and coherent rationality, articulated in a distinctive genre, with direct bearing on legal doctrine and social praxis....The new forms of legal reasoning and writing that Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām developed would influence subsequent jurists from diverse legal schools and across regional traditions until the present day."
- In "Across Sea and Ocean: Transmitting and Receiving Caliphal Sovereignty Claims between the Late Medieval Cairo Sultanate and the Sultanates of India" (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā), Mustafa Banister (Utah State University) "examines diplomatic exchanges linking Syro-Egyptian elites with those in Delhi, Gujarat, Bengal, Malwa, and the Deccan, placing emphasis on the role of late medieval Indian sultanates in shaping the discourse associated with the Abbasid Caliphate in Cairo. Analysis also considers the relationships connecting premodern societies that spanned the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Eastern Mediterranean, framed through the prism of religious diplomacy involving transoceanic ideas of caliphate."
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "Artificial Intelligence and the Creation of Fake Hadith Texts: Challenges for Islamic Scholarship" (International Journal of Islamic Theology and Civilisation), Ramlan Mustapha and Siti Norma Aisyah Malkan (Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang) examine "the historical problem of fabricated hadiths, the technical capabilities of AI in generating convincing religious texts, and the multifaceted challenges facing contemporary Islamic scholars in maintaining the integrity of prophetic traditions." They "suggest that while AI poses significant risks to hadith authentication, it also offers opportunities for developing more sophisticated verification methodologies when combined with traditional Islamic scholarship."
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 Raja Fahrul Collection of Islamic Manuscripts contains 19 digitized manuscripts in Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, and Malay from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including prayers, siyar, legal texts, poetry, and other documents.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Workshop: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative), April 2–3, 2026
PIL & Harvard Opportunities: Other Events: - 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 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
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