ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS In Malaysia, the Prime Minister's Department of Religious Affairs stated that "Muslims must always safeguard religious limits and personal dignity, including refraining from acts that contradict Islamic teachings, such as …  ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS - In Malaysia, the Prime Minister's Department of Religious Affairs stated that "Muslims must always safeguard religious limits and personal dignity, including refraining from acts that contradict Islamic teachings, such as tattooing, which should not be normalised." 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.
- "Iran's Foreign Ministry has recently issued a statement urging people to wait for new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei to publicly declare his stance on nuclear weapons."
- "A counsellor at India's UN Mission in Geneva, said India rejects the assertions of Nicolas Levrat, the special rapporteur on minority issues, about the Waqf Amendment Act 2025."
CASES, FATWĀS, LEGISLATION ON ISLAMIC LAW - "A recent ordinance issued by the Damascus Governorate has triggered widespread debate after restricting where and how alcohol can be sold and consumed in the Syrian capital."
- "The release of a controversial Bollywood song featuring Nora Fatehi and Sanjay Dutt has sparked widespread backlash....Later, a fatwa was also issued against the song by the Darul Ifta of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh."
- In India, a "recent petition challenging Muslim Inheritance Law has prompted the Supreme Court to ask a deceptively simple yet deeply consequential question: Can courts review personal law at all?"
- Per Afghanistan's Supreme Court, "the Taliban carried out widespread corporal punishments over the past year, with at least 1,186 individuals flogged and six publicly executed." For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our "Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup. 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."
- In Pakistan, the "Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that Muslim men may lawfully marry Christian women under Sharia principles, but marriages involving girls under 18 remain punishable under the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929."
- "Police in Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] have confirmed the arrest of a local man suspected of posting insulting remarks about Prophet Muhammad on Facebook."
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California), "The Islamic Secular," April 7, 2026
- Workshop: Manuscripts to Megabytes: Evolving Editorial Practices and Challenges in Arabic Manuscripts from the Premodern to the Digital Age with Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, April 2, 2026
- Workshop: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative), April 2–3, 2026
- Workshop: The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond with Adrien de Jarmy, April 3, 2026
- Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Amadu Kunateh, "Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive," April 6, 2026
- 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
Global Events: - 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
- Fellowship: 2026 ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey, American Research Institute in Turkey, April 1, 2026
- Fellowship: MESA 2026–2027 Global Academy, April 16, 2026
- Language School: Persian Language Summer School, Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Yerevan, Armenia, May 1, 2026
- Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, May 4, 2026
- Call for Participation: Digital Medieval Studies Institute, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 13, 2026
- Award: Global Dissertation Prize, American Society for Legal History, June 1, 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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