The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the American Society for Legal History‘s (ASLH) 2026 Annual Meeting, to be held November 12–14, 2026 in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
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November 12, 2026 @ 9:00am
The Johnson Program for First Book Authors
Convener: Christopher Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Du Fei, University of Oklahoma
Local Women, Global Histories? Gendering Economic Life, Law, and Islam in Early Modern Transregional India
November 12, 2026 @ 11:00am
Empire, Constitution & Governance
Chair: Patricia McMahon, York University
Sarath Pillai, University of Calgary
Muslim Federal Ideas in Colonial India, 1920s–1940s
November 13, 2026 @ 8:30am
The Kathryn T. Preyer Award Panel
Chair: Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University
Commentator: Rohit De, Yale University
Iqra Saleem Khan, Harvard University
Rules Without Judges: The Statutory History of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in British India, 1926–1936
November 13, 2026 @ 10:15am
Before 1492: Law and Governance in an Age of Expansion
Chair & Commentator: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University
Rodrigo García-Velasco, University College London
Surveying Conquered Lands: Conversion and Legal Knowledge in Post-Islamic Iberia, 11-14th Centuries
Roundtable on Legal Pluralism and Imperial Governance: Managing Local Law in Colonial Contexts
Chair: Myra Ann Houser, Ouachita Baptist University
Fuad-Meša Čičić, University of Pristina
The Code of the Mountains against the Empire: Customary Law, Blood Feud, and Ottoman Attempts at Political Control over Albanian Tribes in the 19th Century
Ehlimana Memisevic, University of Sarajevo
Administering Islamic Justice: Sharia Courts in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina
November 13, 2026 @ 1:15pm
Change in Islamic Law: From the Foundational Period to Modernity
Chair & Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto
Marion Katz, New York University
Change in the Service of the Establishment: A Debate on the Islamic Law of Booty
Mariam Sheibani, Brandeis University
Proscribing Temporary Marriage: Ibn ‘Abbās, the Meccan School, and the Retrospective Logic of Sunni Consensus
Hina Azam, University of Texas Austin
Ottoman Sex Crime Legislation and Hanafi Law: Are Fines Punishments or Compensation for Illicit Sex?
Reem Shaikh, University of Texas Austin
Doctrinal Change in Hanbalī Family Law in Modern Saudi Arabia
November 14, 2026 @ 10:15am
Lightning Round: Perspectives on Legal History of Governance and Membership
Chair: Jane Manners, Fordham University
Sadra Emami, York University
Islamic Jurisprudence in Translation: Iranian Political Thought in Western Academic Dissertations
Gender, Privacy, and Public Identities in Premodern Islamic Law
Chair & Commentator: James Muir, University of Alberta
Janina Safran, Pennsylvania State University
Masculinity and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Islamic Spain and North Africa in the Tenth Century
Rosemary Admiral, University of Texas Dallas
Finding Women’s Legal Agency: Islamic Law and Historical Sources
Jocelyn Hendrickson, University of Alberta
What’s in a Name? Medieval Muftis and the Ethical Duty of Confidentiality
November 14, 2026 @ 2:15pm
The Ottoman Roots of International Law
Chair: Joshua White, University of Virginia
Commentator: Tommaso Stefini, Sabanci University
Abdurrahman Atçıl, Sabanci University
Negotiating Law Across Empires: Ottoman Ahidnames and the Making of an Inter-ImperialLegal Order
Tommaso Stefini, Sabanci University
The Ahidnames and the Making of an Inter-State Judicial System
Will Smiley, University of New Hampshire
The Ottoman Roots of Non-Recognition in International Law
Aimee Genell, Boston University
The Ottoman Origins of the Territorial Integrity Norm
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