SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "Reconfiguring Political Islam: A Discursive Tradition Approach" (American Journal of Islam and Society), Abbas Jong (Freie Universität Berlin) "reconceptualizes Political Islam through the analytic lens of …
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In "Reconfiguring Political Islam: A Discursive Tradition Approach" (American Journal of Islam and Society), Abbas Jong (Freie Universität Berlin) "reconceptualizes Political Islam through the analytic lens of discursive tradition, restructured within the framework of social configurations. Departing from essentialist, universalist, nominalist, and reductionist readings, the study foregrounds the epistemological contingencies and internal pluralities that characterize Political Islam as a historically situated and discursively constructed phenomenon."
- In "Backdating the Criticism and Abolition of Family Waqf: Examples from Zaydī Yemen" (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen) "presents examples of pre-modern criticism and abolition of family waqf decreed by Yemeni Zaydī imamic rulers, thus highlighting a pre-modern, internal Muslim criticism of the family waqf that has been scarcely studied to date, and framed mainly as a way to secure justice based on the Quranic inheritance shares."
On Islam and AI/Data Science
- In "Video Games and the Work of Islamic Architectural History" (International Journal of Islamic Architecture), Glaire D. Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) discusses "why video games are significant for making Islamic art and history widely accessible" and how "video games and scholarly work in Islamic art, architecture, and cultural heritage can and should productively intersect." Read the article (here) [login required] or watch the video (here).
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:
- ARCH "helps users easily conduct and support computational research with digital collections at scale – e.g., text and data mining, data science, digital scholarship, machine learning, and more. Users can build custom research collections relevant to a wide range of subjects, generate and access research-ready datasets from collections, and analyze those datasets." ARCH Version 2.3 is now available.
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
PIL & Harvard Events:
- 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: 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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