SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In a recent episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, Shehnaz Haqqani (Mercer University) and Edith Szanto (University of Alabama) "explore specific Muharram practices, including self-flagellation, the wedding of…
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In a recent episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, Shehnaz Haqqani (Mercer University) and Edith Szanto (University of Alabama) "explore specific Muharram practices, including self-flagellation, the wedding of Qasim, and other ritualized forms of mourning, as well as gendered dynamics in who participates and why. We discuss what these practices looked like on the ground—what Muharram in Sayyida Zaynab felt like, how different communities understood and debated these rituals, and what purposes they served for those who participated in them. We talk about the Zaynabiyya seminary and how changes in its physical and institutional structure reshaped how knowledge was taught and who held authority."
- In Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh University Press), editors Hannah-Lena Hagemann (University of Hamburg) and Alasdair C. Grant (University of Hamburg) offer "the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. [The book] combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical analysis in its study of contention and the ways in which it was narrated and enacted. These approaches are pursued through 14 case studies, ranging geographically from North Africa to Central Asia and chronologically from the sixth to tenth centuries CE. These diverse examples reveal several patterns. First, rebellion operated as a normative means of negotiating power and obtaining justice. Secondly, the main constituencies of rebellion were local elites, both Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and members of pre-conquest societies, separately or together."
On Islam and AI/Data Science
- In "Mapping Qur’anic Contemplation Research (2001–2025): Trends, Contributions And Future Directions" (Quranica), Ahmad Amirul Ihsan Che’ Zahari (Universiti Sains Malaysia) and Mohd Shukri Hanapi (Universiti Sains Malaysia) examine "the development and trends in Qur’anic contemplation (tadabbur) research based on publications indexed in the Scopus database between 2001 and 2025....Using VOSviewer, R-Studio (Bibliometrix) and Microsoft Excel, the study analyzes 358 documents from 175 sources to map the intellectual and thematic evolution of this field" while "citation and keyword analyses reveal a strategic shift from classical exegesis toward interdisciplinary engagements integrating hermeneutics, ontology, ethics and digital humanities."
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 Afsaneh Esfandiari (Gidfar) collection contains "family photographs and legal and financial documents, including depositions and settlements" from 19th–21st-century Iran."
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
Events:
- 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
- Conference: The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900), University of Leiden, January 13–15, 2027
- Conference: Rupture or Continuity in Sharīʿa: (De)Colonizing Sharīʿa? International Conference, Centre for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey, June 9–11, 2027
Opportunities:
- 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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