SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP On Islamic Law In "From Militant Democracy to a Rights-Based Paradigm: The Evolution of the Turkish Constitutional Court’s Interpretation of Secularism" (Law and Governance: South East Europe), Batuhan Ustabulut (University …
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In "From Militant Democracy to a Rights-Based Paradigm: The Evolution of the Turkish Constitutional Court’s Interpretation of Secularism" (Law and Governance: South East Europe), Batuhan Ustabulut (University of Antwerp) observes that "after the establishment of the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) which was founded by the Constitution of 1961, it has been observed that the TCC has followed an ideologically based assertive secular approach for more than almost 50 years. This approach of the TCC has caused religion-state relations to become one of the most important debates in Turkish public law. After the constitutional amendment of 2010 regarding the acceptance of individual applications, there has been a change in the TCC’s approach to freedom of religion toward passive secularism."
- In "What Make Muslim Ecologies?: Sacred Geographies and the Vernacular Life of Islam in India" (The India Forum), Mukul Sharma (Ashoka University) observes that "Field studies of Muslim communities in Kargil [India] describe how the cutting of juniper— a slow-growing tree that is ecologically critical for soil stability and fuel in this fragile environment—is restricted through community norms. Participants explicitly describe these norms in the vocabulary of Islamic stewardship: the idea that resources are held in trust and that wasteful or excessive use is a kind of wrongdoing for which one is accountable. Water in Kargil is distributed through collective irrigation arrangements that draw on a specific principle of Islamic law , that flowing water (as distinct from water that has been collected or stored) cannot be privately owned and access to it is a shared right that no individual can foreclose."
- In "Between Consultation and Command: The Quran, Islamic Law, and Warrior Hermeneutics" (JURISTNews), AmirAli Maleki (Praxis Publication) writes that "in Iranian legal doctrine, mahdūr al-dam does not exist as an autonomous provision in the Civil or Penal Code; it survives as a jurisprudential threshold concept rooted in Shi’[ī] legal tradition and enters positive law only indirectly through the structure of qiṣāṣ (retributive justice) in the Islamic Penal Code, where its relevance is strictly judicial and interpretive. It can only be determined by a competent court through due process and only under exceptional conditions in which the legal status of protection itself is contested. Outside this horizon, any unilateral claim of mahdūr al-dam collapses into illegality, and any act based on such self-authorization remains homicide under Iranian criminal law."
On Islam and AI/Data Science
- In "Comparative Analysis of the Risk of Hadith Errors in Question-Answering Systems Based on Large Language Models" (International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation), Hakkun Elmunsyah (Universitas Negeri Malang) conducts a "comparative analysis of the risk of errors generated by Large Language Model-based Question-Answering systems in answering hadith-related questions. Four LLM models, namely GPT, Gemini, Claude, and LLaMA, were evaluated using a controlled set of designed prompts. The model outputs were analyzed and classified into four error categories: fabricated hadith, incorrect attribution, hybrid hadith, and distortion of meaning. The frequency of each error type was then analyzed comparatively to identify error patterns and risk levels for each model. The results show significant differences in the number and types of errors among LLM models, reflecting different risk profiles in the implementation of hadith QA systems."
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 University of Cambridge's digital Cairo Genizah collection contains over 133,000 manuscript fragments, including more than 3,300 documents in Arabic from the 10th to 16th centuries.
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:
- Award: Student Travel Award, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, September 1, 2026
- Call for Papers: Legal Research & Analysis, September 29, 2026
- Call for Papers: Trends in Intellectual Property Research, September 30, 2026
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