SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law Radio ReOrient interviewed Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California) about The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press), which "provocatively challenges the assumption that the secular is external to …  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - Radio ReOrient interviewed Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California) about The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press), which "provocatively challenges the assumption that the secular is external to Islam and the Islamicate." See part 1 here and part two here.
- In "Aligning Islamic ethics with reproductive health policy: addressing gaps in early termination access in Saudi Arabia" (BMJ Global Health), Alaa Alghamdi (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University) "explores the disconnect between Islamic ethical permissions and their operationalisation within the Saudi health system. Drawing on practitioner insight, conceptual reasoning and comparative policy analysis, the paper identifies six critical gaps in early termination access. These include the exclusion of psychological harm as a valid justification, the absence of policy pathways for rape-related pregnancies, inequities that allow privileged women to access abortion abroad while others remain unsupported, lack of system response to contraceptive failure, the ethical contradiction of offering anomaly screening without actionable follow-up and dilemmas in post-abortion care for unmarried women."
- In "A 'Missing' Source on Eighteenth-Century Central Asia Rediscovered: the Istanbul Manuscript of the Works of Sayyid Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Evrim Binbaş (University of Bonn) and Devin DeWeese (Indiana University Bloomington) report the "rediscovery of a Persian manuscript in Istanbul that preserves several unique works from late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century Central Asia, mostly dealing with the historical, genealogical, and ritual profile of the Yasavī Sufi tradition....The study recounts the loss and rediscovery of the manuscript, now registered as Istanbul University Library F745, offers insight on why it went missing for such a long time, and outlines its contents."
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "Handwriting Style Analysis in Arabic Papyri, Parchments, and Papers: the Case of Abū Hurayra" (Journal of Digital Islamicate Research), Leonora Sonego (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) "evaluates a combined palaeographic-computational method to identify scribes in historic documents, more precisely Arabic papyri, where automatic feature extraction is not possible. The challenge is to define features that a human scholar can mark up in a reasonable amount of time, and that are relevant for the given question (e.g., Do we want to identify a scribe, or the period of production?). The paper presents a reference dataset of several dozen securely dated documents belonging to different contexts (private/official/legal), some of which can be assigned to specific persons." [login required]
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: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative), April 2–3, 2026
PIL & Harvard Opportunities: 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: AI Methodologies and Applications in Middle Eastern and Islamic World Studies, Kuwait University, February 4–5, 2026
- Conference: Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Amherst, MA, March 19–21, 2026
- Conference: Humanities of AI—Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis, Johns Hopkins University, April 24–26, 2026
- Conference: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 24–27, 2026
- Conference: Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, May 1–2, 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
- Conference: Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 21–24, 2026
Global Opportunities: - Call for Applications: Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University, January 26, 2026
- Call for Submissions: Fusayfsa', the Smith College student-led Middle East Studies Journal, January 30, 2026
- Call for Papers: Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Chicago, January 31, 2026
- Call for Papers: 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, January 31, 2026
- Call for Papers: Humanities of AI Workshop—Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis, Johns Hopkins University, January 31, 2026
- Call for Papers: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (MEIS) Graduate Student Virtual Symposium, University of Alberta, February 2, 2026
- Call for Panels: Middle East Medievalists at MESA 2026, February 12, 2026
- Call for Papers: Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 17, 2026
- Call for Applications: Kamel Center Senior Postgraduate Fellowship, Yale Law School, February 20, 2026
- Call for Papers: Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, Princeton University, February 20, 2026
- Call for Applications: Orient-Institut Beirut Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship, March 1, 2026
- Call for Participation: Digital Medieval Studies Institute, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 13, 2026
- Position Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle East, Colby College, July 1, 2026
- Call for Participation: Digital Medieval Studies Institute, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 10, 2026
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