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Announcement, NewsProfessor Intisar Rabb to Speak on Keynote Panel at 2019 Political Theology ConferenceProfessor Intisar Rabb will be a featured speaker alongside Professor Michelle Alexander, Reverend Dr. William J. Barber, and others at the Political Theology Conference to be held in October 2019. The sponsoring network of schools has posted registration information. From <https://politicaltheology.com> Political Theology names a multidisciplinary field of research that engages the unwieldy relationship between […]

NewsThe Mellon Foundation awarded SHARIAsource partners at UMD & OpenITI a grant of $800,000 to continue work on Corpus Builder: the first Arabic OCR tool for historical texts, and an integral tool for research on Islamic law. SHARIAsource provided significant support in building the initial infrastructure for CorpusBuilder 1.0 and will play a lead role […]

Opportunities, StudentsProfessor Rabb seeks Summer RAs for projects on Islamic Law Professor Rabb seeks 2-3 Research Assistants (HLS students or Harvard graduate students) for research on Islamic law, in conjunction with the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. Knowledge of Arabic, Persian, or other foreign languages is not necessary (but welcome). Open to HLS […]

EventsCheck back soon for our fall 2019 schedule of lectures, lunch talks, and workshops!

Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawMarzieh Tofighi Darian, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School Based on a recently-published work on the Islamic Law Forum, Marzieh Tofighi Darian will discuss the practice of the Guardian Council, the organ of judicial review in Iran. Expanding its constitutional mandate, the Guardian Council has now become the major player in Iran’s constitutional politics. She examines […]

Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawAfghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British EmpiresAuthor: Faiz Ahmed, Associate Professor of History, Brown University Moderator: Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School Respondent: Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life In Afghanistan Rising, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of Afghanistan, the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its […]

Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawInfluence or Borrowing? Legal Canons in Mamlūk-era Islamic LawMariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School This paper analyzes two early compilations of legal canons and distinctions by Mamluk-era jurists: the Qawāʿid by the Shāfiʿī jurist ʿIzz al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 660/1262) and the Furūq by his student, the Mālikī jurist Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (d. 684/1285). A close comparison of these unexamined collections demonstrates that al-Qarāfī based his collection […]

Lab, Series in Digital Islamic LawOpen to CS students, law, and graduate students, and anyone interested in combining digital humanities with research in Islamic law. Monthly meetings will provide time to workshop, test, and improve tools that participants will work on in the month prior to meeting for collective discussion throughout the semester. The Lab is advised by Harvard faculty […]

2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium, Civil Rights, Co-Sponsored EventAs the keynote address to the 2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium on April 1, former NBA player and civil rights activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf spoke about his childhood, basketball career and experience advocating for social justice in the United States. Professor Intisar Rabb initiated the conversation in a “fireside chat” with questions about Abdul-Rauf’s inspiration for […]

Lecture, Series in Islamic LawMohammad Fadel, Professor of Law, University of Toronto Nisa’ 4:34 has received a disproportionate share of commentary among reformist Muslim scholars of this generation insofar as its plain sense appears to affirm the right of the husband not only to discipline a recalcitrant wife, but also to use physical violence to do so. Professor Fadel […]

2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium, Co-Sponsored EventFireside Chat with former NBA player and activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf co-sponsored by CSEL and Harvard Muslim Law Students Association

Lab, Series in Digital Islamic LawTechnologies for Digital Islamic Law: Network AnalysisAdvised by Harvard Law School faculty and MIT data scientists, the Digital Islamic Law Lab is a monthly workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to develop three new digital tools for the community of Islamic law scholars, to be published on the SHARIAsource portal. Open to CS students, law and graduate students with an […]

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