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 […]
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]” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dilyara Agisheva, Ukraine from Ottoman Times to Today, W’OTSAp
Wednesday, September 21, 2022On Friday, September 30th, PIL Research Fellow, Dr. Dilyara Agisheva, will present “The Making of Colonial Space in Crimea in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries” at the Ottoman and […]
SHARIAsource Lab Workshop :: Ibn ʿAsākir and His History of Damascus: Named Entity Recognition and Text Reuse, Sarah Bowen Savant (The Aga Khan University)
Monday, September 12, 2022On Tuesday September 27, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST at Lewis 214, Sarah Bowen Savant, will lead a seminar on research in progress that uses the OpenITI corpus, which corpus contains […]
Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary: Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) & Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan) in Conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb
Monday, September 12, 2022On Monday, September 19, 2022 4:30-5:30PM US EST in Milstein West at Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School, Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan), in conversation […]
SHARIAsource Lab Research Assistantships, Fall 2022
Monday, September 12, 2022Professor Intisar Rabb is accepting applications for Fall 2022 student research assistants for the SHARIAsource lab. The SHARIAsource Lab will meet for six sessions this term, on four Tuesdays from […]
ILSS: Hedayat Heikal
Thursday, March 03, 2022On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Dr. Hedayat Heikal presented “Inheritance versus Personal Status: Shifting National Strategies in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia.” Heikal argued that […]
Islamic Law Speaker Series: Hedayat Heikal
Monday, January 31, 2022On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Dr. Hedayat Heikal will speak about inheritance and personal status laws in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia in a presentation […]