SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Succession to the Prophet in Zaydi Theology: An Editio Princeps of a Treatise on the Imamate from the Early Sixth/Twelfth Century" (Shii Studies Review), Hassan Ansari (Institute for Advanced Study) and…  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "The Succession to the Prophet in Zaydi Theology: An Editio Princeps of a Treatise on the Imamate from the Early Sixth/Twelfth Century" (Shii Studies Review), Hassan Ansari (Institute for Advanced Study) and others argue that "the Mukhtaṣar fī l-imāma is most likely authored by Zayd b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Bayhaqī al-Burūghanī (d. c. 545/1150), an Iranian Zaydi scholar who, toward of the end of his life, settled in Yemen. The work draws extensively on Kitāb al-Diʿāma by the Zaydi Imam of northern Iran, Abū Ṭālib al-Hārūnī (d. 424/1033), and survives as an addendum to al-Hārūnī's Ziyādāt Sharḥ al-uṣūl, itself a commentary on Ibn Khallād's Muʿtazili theological handbook, Kitāb al-Uṣūl. In this treatise, the author undertakes a systematic refutation of Muʿtazili and Imami Shiʿi doctrines concerning the imamate." [login required]
- In "Debating the Origins: The Sanctity of Madina in Ḥadīth Narratives" (Journal of Islamic Studies), Seyfeddin Kara (University of Groningen) "analyses ḥadīth narratives about the sanctification of Madina, using the isnād-cum-matn analysis pioneered by the late Harald Motzki. It challenges the view––derived from the persistent assumption in Western scholarship that, unless proven case by case to be otherwise, the ḥadīth corpus must be regarded as back-projected forgery––that the sanctity of the Prophet's city evolved several generations after his death." [login required]
- In "Interfaith Marriage: Can a Muslim Woman Marry a Non-Muslim Man?" (Comparative Islamic Studies), Nayel Badareen (University of Arizona) "examines the legal reasoning behind the law which forbids Muslim women from marrying outside their faith....[and] shows that such claims by Muslim jurists have no base in the Qur'an or traditions of the Prophet." [login required]
On Islam and AI/Data Science - In "Detecting Text Reuse in Historical Arabic Texts: Challenges and Strategies" (Journal of Digital Islamicate Research),Tynan Kelly (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University) "introduces alNaql, a new TRD software specifically designed for Arabic. By incorporating algorithms tailored to Arabic's unique morphological and syntactic properties, alNaql identifies significantly more reuse instances than currently available tools. We compare its performance to that of passim – which has previously been used by researchers in the Islamicate digital humanities – and TextPAIR, known for its success in European corpora. Our results demonstrate that alNaql not only captures all reuse instances found by passim, the vast majority detected by TextPAIR, but also reveals many matches missed by both." [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: - "Quantifying Islamic Law in the Modern State" uses quantitative methods to "reconstruct" Islamic legal tradition through almost 800 shari'a court cases in Morocco from 1921–1957—the colonial period and the last decades prior to state codification of shari'a. The project focused on quantifying the frequency of over 200 jurists that judges of this era mentioned in support of their rulings, the data for which is included in the website appendix.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University), "Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India," February 10, 2026 @ 12:30pm
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: Ihsan Yilmaz (Deakin University), "Sharia as Informal Law: Lived Experiences of Young Muslims in Western Societies," March 10, 2026 @ 12:30pm
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California), "The Islamic Secular," April 7, 2026 @ 12:30pm
- 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 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 Proposals: UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Colloquium: The Visual Culture of Algeria Through Exchange, Circulation, and Global Networks, February 27, 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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