Memorial Service: Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh
Posted on October 30, 2024Following the passing of our dear friend, colleague, and mentor, Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh on July 30, 2024, a memorial service was held on October 25th at Harvard’s Memorial Church. There, family, faculty, students, and […]
Workshop: Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies, Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University
Posted on October 30, 2024The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University will hold a workshop titled “Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies” on November 8, 2024, from 2:30 to 4:30 […]
ILSS: Recep Senturk
Posted on October 19, 2024On Tuesday, October 8, 2024 via Zoom, Professor Recep Senturk (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) presented Ādamiyyah: An Islamic Approach to Universal Human Rights (Usul Academy Press, 2025). This book explores […]
ILSS: Sarah Savant, A Cultural History of the Arabic Book: Digital Explorations of Writerly Practices and Text Reuse
Posted on October 14, 2024On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Sarah Savant (Aga Khan University) will present “A Cultural History of the Arabic Book: Digital Explorations of Writerly […]
ILSS: Mohsen Kadivar, The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam
Posted on October 14, 2024On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Mohsen Kadivar (Duke University) will present “The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam.” […]
ILSS: Malika Zeghal, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Posted on October 14, 2024On Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Malika Zeghal (Harvard University) will present The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle […]
September Newsletter
Posted on October 12, 2024The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of September! This newsletter takes a look at our fall events, a series on the life and […]
Fatima Essop, Muslim Family Law Hub
Posted on October 12, 2024The recently launched Muslim Family Law Hub, co-founded by Fatima Essop, a former research affiliate at the Program in Islamic Law (PIL), is an innovative platform designed to offer comprehensive […]
Sohaib Baig, From data to action: Leveraging insights to make more informed collection decisions
Posted on October 12, 2024In a recent blog post for OCLC, Sohaib Baig, a former Research Fellow at the Program in Islamic Law (PIL), delves into the critical role that library collections play in […]
PIL 2024-2025 Event Calendar
Posted on October 12, 2024PIL convenes an Islamic Law Speaker Series that provides a forum for established and emerging scholars to talk about their own recent scholarship, works-in-progress, or developments in the field. Unless […]