SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran" (Constitutional Discourse), Batuhan Aydın (University of Szeged) "traces the origins of Iran's constitutional identity crisis fro…  SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law - In "The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran" (Constitutional Discourse), Batuhan Aydın (University of Szeged) "traces the origins of Iran's constitutional identity crisis from the Qajar period to the present, trying to engage legal scholarship in the midst of current geopolitical developments."
- In "Doctrinal change in Mālikī law: the case of judicial divorce on account of harm (Ḍarar)" (Comparative Legal History), Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) "explores doctrinal change in Mālikī law. Using the example of the distinctly Mālikī doctrine of a wife's right to judicial divorce based on harm (ḍarar), [he] explores how this rule became the basic position of the school by no later than the eighth/fourteenth century, when Khalīl b Isḥāq included it in his authoritative Restatement of Mālikī law."
- In "Polarisation of Islamic Scholars on the Legality of Cryptocurrency Usage as Currency" (Arena Hukum), Aan Aswari (Universitas Muslim Indonesia) and others observe that "cryptocurrency has become a key focus in the evolving landscape of virtual finance, sparking a divide among Islamic scholars. The debate centres on whether cryptocurrency should be considered permissible for transactions under Islamic law. [Their] study explores the polarisation among scholars, some of whom permit cryptocurrency use while others prohibit it."
On Islam and AI/Data Science 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: - "The RASAM dataset was developed by the Research Consortium Middle-East and Muslim Worlds (GIS MOMM), DISTAM, Calfa, and the BULAC Library between 2021 and 2023. It comprises a diverse collection of Maghrebi Arabic manuscripts from the BULAC Library, featuring a wide variety of handwriting styles, layouts, states of preservation, and other characteristics representative of Arabic Maghrebi manuscript production. The dataset is specifically designed to address the challenges of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for this non-Latin, under-resourced script. In total, the dataset includes 450 images paired with corresponding ground truth data. It covers a representative part of the handwritten production in Arabic Maghrebi scripts and is designed for training generic Arabic handwritten text recognition (HTR) models."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES PIL & Harvard Events: - Workshop: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative), April 2–3, 2026
- Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California), "The Islamic Secular," April 7, 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
PIL & Harvard Opportunities: - Award: Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize, April 17, 2026
- Award: Alwaleed Bin Talal Doctoral Dissertation Prize, May 15, 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
- Workshop: Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Graduate Student Workshop, July 25–26, 2026
- Workshop: Archival Abundances and Silences in Islamic Studies, Princeton University, October 2–3, 2026
- Conference: Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 21–24, 2026
Global Opportunities: - Fellowship: Normativity and Citizens of Muslim-Majority Countries, University of Turin, April 9, 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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