ILSS: Elizabeth Lhost
Thursday, March 23, 2023On Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College) will give a book talk on her recent publication Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia (University of North Carolina Press 2022). In this book, Lhost addresses how histories of Islamic law and legal practice in British-ruled India tend to focus on the evolution […]
Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize
Wednesday, March 22, 2023We are excited to announce the call for submissions for the Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize! We award a prize of $1,000 annually to the Harvard Law School student writing the best paper in the field of Islamic legal studies or at the intersection of Islamic law and related fields. Papers eligible for consideration will be […]
ILSS: Marion Katz
Thursday, March 02, 2023On Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Marion Katz (New York University) gave a talk on her recent publication Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics before Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2022). In this book, Katz addresses the widely held assumption that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to […]
Critical Perspectives in the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 01, 2023Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous extremely talented students who are conducting fine studies that have great impact in all fields in the humanities and social sciences. Dozens of books are published yearly including through major university presses, and so the goal of Critical Perspectives in […]
ILSS: Haroun Rahimi
Wednesday, March 01, 2023Join us on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, where Haroun Rahimi (The American University of Afghanistan) will present “Taliban and Modernity” as part of our Islamic Law Speaker Series. The presentation will explore the Taliban’s approaches to law, rights, governance, education, and the public and private spheres, examining what they can […]
SHARIAsource Lab: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes
Friday, February 24, 2023On Saturday March 4, 2023 at 11:00AM-4:00PM US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event (registration ends February 27th by midnight EST). Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script […]
Kenneth Roth, “The Global Contest between Democracy and Autocracy: Less Dire Than It Seems”
Wednesday, February 08, 2023Join us tomorrow February 9 at 12:30 PM EST, for the discussion “The Global Contest between Democracy and Autocracy: Less Dire Than It Seems” with Kenneth Roth. Roth has served for nearly three decades as the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which operates in some 100 countries. He currently holds […]
Professor Intisar Rabb, “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism [Or: Reading Law, Comparatively in American and Islamic Law]”, Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, U.C. Berkeley
Friday, February 03, 2023On Friday, February 3, 2023 from 12:15-2:00 p.m. PST, PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb, will be presenting “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism [Or: Reading Law, Comparatively in American and Islamic Law]” at a Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory sponsored by the Kadish Center for Morality, Law, & Public Affairs and the Philosophy and Political […]
ILSS: Marion Katz
Wednesday, February 01, 2023On Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Marion Katz (New York University) will give a book talk on her recent publication Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics before Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2022). In this book, Katz addresses the widely held assumption that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to do work, and […]
Hermeneutics in the Age of Big Data, Yusuf Celik
Tuesday, October 18, 2022On October 19th at 3:00pm EST, PIL Data Science Fellow, Dr. Yusuf Celik, will be presenting Hermeneutics in the Age of Big Data at Harvard University’s Digital Scholarship Group. Data collection and interpretation are necessary parts of any kind of scholarly research. The extent and character of the data collected by a researcher has always been […]