PIL NewsMessage from the DirectorThe Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce that Mona Rahmani has joined the Program as our new Associate Director. Mona comes to Harvard with deep experience and vast background in data-driven research, international relations, and higher education administration. She brings these skills to the growing community of Islamic law […]

COVID-19 Update03.16.20: Program in Islamic Law Updates Please consult the Harvard University and Harvard Law School dedicated sites for updates on Covid-19, which we follow. For PIL-specific updates, please check this dedicated PIL/Covid-19 site. Events. All events are canceled until further notice, but podcasts featuring current fellows and recent book authors will be available later this […]

Series in Islamic Law, Spring 2020During her lunch talk “Disinformation, Defamation, and Islamic Values,” Dr. Zahra Takhshid (Harvard Law School) compared how intentional disinformation is treated within American, British, and Islamic legal frameworks. Dr. Takhshid emphasized this is a matter of legal sovereignty, pointing to defamation of non-Americans occurring on American-based social media companies’ platforms. The talk is based on […]

Series in Islamic Law, Spring 2020During her lunch talk “Intimacy Under Surveillance: Moral Policing & the State in Contemporary Malaysia,” Dr. Nuru Huda Mohd. Razif discussed the public effects of the Malaysian syariah law’s Criminal Offences Act. She specifically discussed how the policing of khalwat (illicit proximity) affected the Malaysian public’s understanding of marriage and intimacy and how “the bureaucratization […]

Book Talk, Co-Sponsored EventDr. Darryl Li discussed his new book The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press 2019) in conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb during a book talk. The book “situates transational jihads in relation to more powerful universalisms.” The event was co-sponsored by the Program in Islamic Law and the Center […]

Recent DevelopmentsSHARIAsource & OpenITI Workshop on Arabic OCRThe Open Islamicate Text Initiative and SHARIAsource at Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law last month co-convened a two-day workshop at the University of Maryland on developments in Arabic OCR. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the conference brought together humanists and computer scientists to explore over a dozen solutions to crack the code of how to create […]

Series in Islamic Law, Spring 2020The Revival of Shāfiʿism in Damascus“The Revival of Shāfiʿism in Damascus, 11th-13th century” PIL is pleased to welcome Mariam Sheibani, Research Fellow, Program In Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, as part of its Islamic Law Series. Following Harvard University and Harvard Law School directives regarding COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Subscribe to our lists below to stay up-to-date on […]

Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic Law, Spring 2020Professor Larry Rosen, Senior Fellow at the Program in Islamic Law, opened the Islamic law lecture series this spring with the lunch talk “Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber Example” on February 26th. Professor Rosen focused on the history of Islamic law’s development and practice among tribes in Morocco. The event was livetweeted at […]

Series in Islamic Law, Spring 2020“On Fences and Neighbors: Property, Nuisance, and Resort to the Law in Islamic Legal History, 6th/12th through 8th/14th Centuries” PIL is pleased to welcome Dana Lee, Research Fellow, Program In Islamic Law, Harvard Law School as part of its Islamic Law Series. Following Harvard University and Harvard Law School directives regarding COVID-19, this event has […]

Series in Islamic Law, Spring 2020“An Islamic Legal Geography of Crime and the Sanctuary in Nineteenth-Century Iran” PIL is pleased to welcome Farzin Vejdani, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, as part of its Islamic Law Series. Following Harvard University and Harvard Law School directives regarding COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Subscribe to our lists below to stay up-to-date on PIL […]

Book Launch, PIL Special EventEarlier this fall, the Program in Islamic Law published the eighth volume in its Harvard Series on Islamic Law, an English translation of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Royal Moroccan Edition, The Recension of Yaḥyā Ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī. On December 9th, PIL celebrated the book’s launch by bringing together scholars from the accompanying online roundtable in a roundtable […]

Series in Islamic Law, Spring 2020Reason-Giving and the Duty to Obey in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence“Reason-Giving and the Duty to Obey in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence” PIL is pleased to welcome Omar Farahat, Assistant Professor, Mcgill University Faculty Of Law, as part of its Islamic Law Series. Following Harvard University and Harvard Law School directives regarding COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Subscribe to our lists below to stay up-to-date on […]

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