ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS A podcast on "Debating Sharia on Capitol Hill" featured interviews with Texas-based activist Krista Schild, Congresswoman Mary Scanlon (D-PA), Professor AS Ibrahim (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), and others about re…  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - A podcast on "Debating Sharia on Capitol Hill" featured interviews with Texas-based activist Krista Schild, Congresswoman Mary Scanlon (D-PA), Professor AS Ibrahim (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), and others about recent attempts to "ban Sharia" in the United States.
- Last week, the US "House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on concerns about applications of Islamic law...with Republicans describing Sharia as a threat to constitutional order and Democrats labeling the proceedings 'un-American' hysteria about a religious minority."
- "South African religious leader Muhsin Hendricks was gunned down on 15 February 2025 in an attack that many believe was targeted....His passing intensifies a global debate about whether queer Muslims belong in the faith."
- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani "defended a sweeping executive order limiting federal immigration enforcement in the city by drawing on Islamic teachings."
- "Indonesia Deposit Insurance Agency chief Anggito Abimanyu said on Wednesday that cryptocurrencies fall into the 'non-halal' category."
- "Legal, financial and Islamic scholars have urged Nigerians to embrace structured Islamic estate planning, warning that informal and undocumented wealth transfer practices continue to expose families to conflict, asset loss and prolonged court battles."
- Islamic Finance Guru asks, "Are Prediction Markets Halal or Haram?"
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - Egypt's Dār al-Iftā stated that "in today's age, technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer tools that can enhance preparation for Ramadan....[but] artificial intelligence cannot serve as a primary source for acquiring Islamic knowledge or replace qualified scholars."
- In India, "the Supreme Court has appointed Senior Advocate Shoeb Alam as amicus curiae to assist it in an appeal challenging a Kerala High Court ruling that allows Muslim women to dissolve their marriages through khula without the husband's consent."
- "The Gujarat High Court [India]...rejected the plea of a Muslim woman challenging a 1983 family arrangement to claim a share in the immovable properties her brothers received from their father, holding that the concept of 'a joint family' under Hindu succession laws is alien to Mohammedan law."
- "The Chhattisgarh High Court [India] has issued a significant verdict regarding the distribution of property among Muslims and emphasised that no member of the community is permitted to bequeath more than one-third of their assets to any person via a will without obtaining the consent of their legal heirs."
- "Uzbekistan is preparing to introduce Islamic banking after the Senate approved legislation creating a legal framework for Sharia-compliant financial services."
- "The UAE Council for Fatwa has set the official amounts and cash values for Zakat Al Fitr, Fidyah and related Ramadan payments for 2026, following a field price study conducted with the Ministry of Economy and Tourism."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Giovanni DiRusso, "The Textual Tradition of the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter: Variance and Adaptation in a Christian Arabic Apocalypse," February 23, 2026 @ 7:15pm
- 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
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Cem Turkoz, "An Edifice of Super-Glosses: The Making of an Ottoman Tradition of Natural Philosophy, 1650–1800," March 23, 2026 @ 6:15pm
- 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
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Amadu Kunateh, "Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive," April 6, 2026 @ 6:15pm
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Djelemory Diabate, "Closing the Sufi Age: Authority, Finality, and Political Theology in Umar al-Futi Tal's Kitab Rimah," April 20, 2026 @ 6:15pm
Global Events: - 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 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 Papers: Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Program, American Society for Legal History, April 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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