SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP
On Islamic Law
- In "Rethinking marriage—and divorce—in Muslim Indonesia" (University of Colorado Boulder Blog) "CU Boulder sociologist Rachel Rinaldo’s research uncovers how Indonesian women are re-shaping marriage and its end within Islamic law, with implications far beyond Southeast Asia."
- In "Inhabiting the Threshold (Dihlīz): The Madrasa Between Inheritance and Interrogation" (Hashiya), Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame) asks "What is a madrasa? What does it cultivate? How has it changed? And how might it change? To defend it uncritically would be naïve. To abandon it would be an act of intellectual amnesia. The path forward [after 9/11] required something else—a mode of engagement that neither capitulated to imperial narratives nor romanticized inherited forms. What follows is the story of how I arrived at an answer.
On Islam and AI/Data Science
- In "Reimagining Islamic Civilization in the Age of AI: Digital Humanities, Ethical Challenges, and Knowledge Production in the Muslim World" (Islamic Civilization and History), Muhammad Yusuf (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Syekh Nurjati) observes that "the convergence of artificial intelligence with Islamic civilization presents unprecedented challenges to knowledge production, ethical frameworks, and educational practices. Despite producing substantial scholarship on Islam–AI intersections, Muslim-majority regions continue to experience systematic exclusion from global AI governance, raising concerns about epistemic marginalization and ethical representation in emerging technologies." The study "aims to map the global landscape of Islamic–AI scholarship, analyze dominant Islamic ethical frameworks guiding AI development, evaluate digital humanities applications to Islamic textual traditions, and assess challenges related to AI integration in Islamic education."
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 Aʻzam Dukht Qavami collection contains images of 96 items from 19th-20st-century Iran such as "photographs; objects of daily life; legal and financial documents, including: inheritance, property sale settlement, and power of attorney. Most of these items belonged to Aʻzam Dukht Qavami, daughter of Mihrangiz Khvajah-nuri and Manuchihr Qavami, and wife of Muhammad Riza Sawmiʻi."
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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