ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS "Saudi youth couldn't date openly a decade ago. Now Tinder Is booming." A "transformation has been taking hold in [Southeast Asia]'s two big Muslim-majority countries, Malaysia and Indonesia. Islam is asserting itself …  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - "Saudi youth couldn't date openly a decade ago. Now Tinder Is booming."
- A "transformation has been taking hold in [Southeast Asia]'s two big Muslim-majority countries, Malaysia and Indonesia. Islam is asserting itself not through violence but peacefully through politics, laws, consumer culture and social pressure."
- "Islamic legal traditions and the modern framework of international humanitarian law (IHL) emerged from different contexts and traditions, but they share many underlying values – such as restraint, humanity, and the protection of those not (or no longer) participating in hostilities."
- In Indonesia, the "Ministry of Religious Affairs has emphasized that zakat must not be used outside the provisions for the eight asnaf (groups) as regulated in the Quran. Minister of Religious Affairs Nasaruddin Umar conveyed this in response to circulating content mentioning that the Ministry is maximizing zakat and waqf for the free nutritious meal program."
- "A distinctive market in Chanh Hung Ward in Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam] opens only once a year, operating for a month during Ramadan and drawing both Muslim worshipers and curious visitors."
- "At the far reaches of the northern hemisphere, where seasons overlap and conventional measures of time are disrupted, Muslims face a unique test each year when the month of Ramadan falls during the summer. In cities such as Kiruna in Sweden, Tromso in Norway, and parts of Canada and Alaska, the sun does not set."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - In Malaysia, the Selangor Islamic Religious Department "arrested a 65-year-old man in Rawang for allegedly claiming to be a Prophet."
- "Malaysia has blocked access to LGBTQ networking and dating sites Grindr and Blued, with authorities reviewing legal measures to curb their apps in the Muslim-majority nation."
- In May, the Malaysian High Court will "deliver its decision on an originating summons (OS) filed by M Indira Gandhi and 13 others that challenges the validity of certain states' laws regarding the unilateral religious conversion of minors." For more content and context on Islamic law in Malaysia, consult our Editor-in-Chief Professor Intisar Rabb's "Legislation and Regulation of Islamic Law in Malaysia" and its appended resource roundup.
- In a recent op-ed, Canadian lawyer Faisal Kutty argues that "'Sharia Law' witch hunts are un-American."
- "For decades, Iran has declared that nuclear weapons production would violate principles of the Quran, the government's holy book, that it is not pursuing a nuclear arsenal, and that its uranium enrichment is strictly for civilian uses....In October 2003, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued an oral fatwa, or a religious order, declaring that nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islamic law."
- "Murtaza Solangi, spokesperson for Pakistan's president, shared footage of a concert by Pakistani singer Mehdi Hasan in Kabul, saying the Afghan capital was once a centre of culture and music....The Taliban consider music forbidden under their interpretation of Islamic law and have banned the broadcast of music in media and public places." For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief Professor Intisar Rabb's "Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - 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
- Roundtable: Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, April 16, 2026
- 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: - Presentation: Lutforahman Saeed—God's Law, Man's Rule: Debating Women's Right to Health from Sacred Texts to the Taliban, March 2, 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 Papers: Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Program, American Society for Legal History, April 1, 2026
- Language School: Persian Language Summer School, Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Yerevan, Armenia, May 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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