Recent DevelopmentsConference on Recent Developments in 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 […]
Book TalkThe Universal Enemy (Stanford 2019)Feb 26 | 4:30 pm – 6 pm | Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Li is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, December 2019), which develops an […]
Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawDis-information, Defamation, & Islamic ValuesMar 10 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Austin 102 The Program in Islamic Law is pleased to welcome Zahra Takhshid, the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, as part of its Islamic Law Series. She will speak on social media and the relationship between Disinformation, Defamation, and Islamic Values. Subscribe to […]
Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawLunch Talk :: Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber ExampleFeb 26 | 12.00 – 1.00 pm | Austin 102 Lawrence Rosen, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Princeton University Tribes are characterized less by their structural forms and purported evolutionary history than by their cultural orientations and shape-shifting capability. In many parts of MENA and Asia these qualities have also contributed to tribes’ […]