Program in Islamic Law

Conference: NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities (19-22 Jan | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

Workshop: Early Career Manuscript Workshop, The Cambridge Studies in Law and Society (31 May 2020 | University of Denver)

Winter Term International Travel Grants: Independent Clinicals, Harvard Law School

Workshop: “Mosques, power and politics” (22-24 January 2020, University of Copenhagen)

Islam in Africa Lecture Series – Caitlyn Bolton

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Program in Islamic Law Celebrates Its New English Translation of al-MuwaṭṭaʾEarlier 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 […]

Book Launch, PIL Special EventBook Launch: Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ Monday, Dec 9 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. EST | Wasserstein Milstein West A/B Online Conference: http://bit.ly/2P8fUrE RSVP: http://bit.ly/33J0VtF (RSVP requested for in-person attendance only) On the occasion of the publication of a new translation of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, one of the earliest treatises on Islamic law, the Program in Islamic Law is […]

Book Launch, PIL Special Event, symposiumSymposium Roundtable: Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ Monday, Dec 9 | 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST | Location by invitation Online Conference: http://bit.ly/2OJ4s71 (Password required) RSVP: http://bit.ly/2LdZrB4 (RSVP requested for in-person or remote attendance) Following an online roundtable on the early Islamic law treatise al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (by Mālik b. Anas in the 8th century), featured on the ISLAMICLAWblog, a […]

Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawOn Tuesday, October 22nd, Professor Maya Shatzmiller of Western University spoke to an audience of eighteen scholars on “Equity and Equality: The Economics Behind Women’s Property Rights in Islamic Law.” Part of the PIL Islamic Law Lecture Series, this talk drew from research for Professor Shatzmiller’s forthcoming paper of the same name. She focused on […]

Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawMaya Shatzmiller, Professor of Islamic History, Western University Islamic law gives women and men identical property rights. With some modifications, these rights enable women to earn and acquire income and property, transact with it and consent to the practice of birth control. This paper argues and empirically demonstrates that equity was behind equality. It shows […]

Lunch Talk, Series in Islamic LawNecessity, Taking Property, and the Dilemma of Compensation in the Islamic Legal TraditionDr. Dana Lee presented her research in her lunch talk “Necessity, Taking Property, and the Dilemma of Compensation in the Islamic Legal Tradition.” Speaking to an audience comprised of comparative law, and history students and scholars, Dr. Lee discussed necessity within the Mālikī legal tradition. She provided a historically-rooted account of how Mālikī jurists engaged […]

Open House, PIL Special EventProgram in Islamic Law :: Open HouseSep 24 | 4.00-6.00p | Austin 102 The Program for Islamic law welcomes students, faculty, and staff back for the new year. Come learn about the program, meet others with similar interests, and more. Refreshments will be served.

Announcement, NewsProfessor 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 LawJudicial Review in Iran: Whose Guardian: Constitution or Sharia?Marzieh 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 […]

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