SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Meat and Religious Difference in Colonial India: the Courage and Contradictions of Sayyid Ahmad Khan" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College…  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "Meat and Religious Difference in Colonial India: the Courage and Contradictions of Sayyid Ahmad Khan" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) "conducts a detailed reading of the paradigmatic South Asian Muslim modernist scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan's (d.1898) views on Indian Muslims dining with or eating the meat prepared and/or served by the British, as found in his Urdu/Arabic Text Rules on the Food of the People of the Book (Ahkam-i Ta'am-i Ahl-i Kitab) composed in 1868." In doing so, Tareen "shows the impact and imprints of modern secular assumptions and desires on the thought of a Muslim scholar on a topic of profound ethical consequence, and...highlights the limits but also the efficacy of the categories of modernist and traditionalist in the study of Islam." [login required]
- In "Meat Together: South Asian Muslim Visions of Sovereignty in the Age of Minority" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester) observes that "historians of South Asia have long treated practices related to the consumption of meat—especially cow slaughter—as a flashpoint in late-nineteenth-century Hindu–Muslim conflict. Such clashes carried profound social and political con-sequences and exposed a shifting nexus between sovereignty and everyday life in post-Mughal North India. Against this backdrop, the present article argues that halal meat—and food more broadly—functioned as a medium of inter-communal rapprochement, challenging the colonial state's claim to arbitrate Hindu–Muslim daily interactions."
- In his own article of the same name, "Meat Together: South Asian Muslim Visions of Sovereignty in the Age of Minority" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient)," John M. Willis (University of Colorado Boulder) argues that "Roy Bar Sadeh's 'Meat Together' [referenced above] offers a compelling vision of intercommunal sociability in nineteenth-century India based on a reading of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan's writing on the legal rules governing the slaughter of animals for meat. Bar Sadeh's analysis also gives us pause, however, to consider the emergence of life, both human and non-human, as a problem of colonial governance. Taken together, biopolitical government and the question of sociability, the article allows to interrogate the limits of hospitality as it extends to and beyond the human."
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "QURAN-MD: A Fine-Grained Multilingual Multimodal Dataset of the Quran" (Muslims in Machine Learning Workshop), Muhammad Umar Salman (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) and others "present QURAN-MD, a comprehensive multimodal dataset of the Quran that integrates textual, linguistic, and audio dimensions at the verse and word levels.For each verse (ayah), the dataset provides its original Arabic text, English translation, and phonetic transliteration. To capture the rich oral tradition of Quranic recitation, we include verse-level audio from 32 distinct reciters, reflecting diverse recitation styles and dialectical nuances. At the word level, each token is paired with its corresponding Arabic script, English translation, transliteration, and an aligned audio recording, allowing fine-grained analysis of pronunciation, phonology, and semantic context."
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: - QURAN-MD "supports various applications, including natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, linguistic analysis, and digital Islamic studies. Bridging text and audio modalities across multiple reciters, this dataset provides a unique resource to advance computational approaches to Qur'anic recitation and study. Beyond enabling tasks such as ASR, tajweed detection, and Qur'anic TTS, it lays the foundation for multimodal embeddings, semantic retrieval, style transfer, and personalized tutoring systems that can support both research and community applications."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Workshop: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative), April 2–3, 2026
Global 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
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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