SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Dominik Krell (University of Oxford) shows t…
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In "Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Dominik Krell (University of Oxford) shows that "that while the debate on the family waqf in other parts of the Arab world was dominated by the rise of the modern state, capitalism and European colonialism, the criticism of the family waqf in Saudi Arabia predates these discourses and emerged independently from the thought of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792). Subsequent Saudi jurists did not simply repeat Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s critique. Instead, they regularly diverged from it and from the Ḥanbalī school more generally. This challenges conventional descriptions of Saudi jurists as being monochromatically 'Wahhabi-Hanbali' in their legal thinking."
- In "Sharia Courts, Legal Pluralism, and Geopolitical Stability in Nigeria" (Instituto Analisi Relazioni Internazionali Blog), Giovanni Pirozzi (Instituto Analisi Relazioni Internazionali) observes that "sharia courts are at the heart of Nigeria’s legal and social fabric, shaping the country’s governance, stability, and international image. While embedded in the 1999 Constitution, these courts exist in a delicate balance with Nigeria’s secular framework — a balance that can either reinforce federal cohesion or exacerbate societal tensions."
On Islam and AI/Data Science
- In "Between Hadith and Algorithms: The Epistemic Transformation of Farāiḍ by Era Artificial Intelligence" (International Conference on Islam, Law, and Society Proceedings), Mughniatul Ilma (UIN Kiai Ageng Muhammad Besari Ponorogo) and Husna Ni'matul Ulya (UIN Kiai Ageng Muhammad Besari Ponorogo) seek to "reinterpret the relationship between the revocation of knowledge (naz' al-'ilm) in hadith and algorithmic preservation by artificial intelligence." They propose "a new conceptual framework, namely trans-human Islamic epistemology, that places AI as instrumental intelligence under the control of moral consciousness and maqāṣid al-sharī'ah."
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:
- "Connected Papers creates a graph-based network that clusters similar works together, even if they don’t directly cite or reference each other. Instead of showing a citation tree, it uses data from Semantic Scholar to visualise academic relationships based on bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis. This means you can quickly see groups of publications that share a strong thematic or methodological connection." Learn more about the tool here.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
PIL & Harvard Opportunities:
- 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:
- 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
- Award: Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, July 15, 2026
- Award: Graduate Paper Prize, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, July 15, 2026
- Award: Student Travel Award, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, September 1, 2026
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