Harvard Law Today announces that Prof. Intisar Rabb has been appointed Special Adviser to the ICC
Posted on September 28, 2021In a recent spotlight on faculty scholarship, Harvard Law Today announces that PIL Faculty Director Professor Intisar Rabb has been appointed Special Adviser on Islamic Law to the new chief […]
September Newsletter
Posted on September 23, 2021The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of September! Content includes an announcement about our recent collaboration with the Library of Congress, our new […]
IQSS spotlights Professor Intisar Rabb
Posted on September 17, 2021In their recent article “Digitized Canon: Intisar Rabb’s Work to Develop SHARIAsource and Other Resources on Islamic Law,” the Institute for Quantitative Social Science spotlights PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar […]
Professor Intisar Rabb Appointed Special Adviser to the ICC
Posted on September 17, 2021PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb, was recently appointed Special Adviser on Islamic Law to the International Criminal Court. Professor Rabb was appointed as one of 17 experts selected to […]
RA for Digital Humanities Project with Professor Intisar Rabb and Data Science Fellow Dr. Yusuf Celik
Posted on September 12, 2021Professor Intisar Rabb and data science fellow Dr Yusuf Celik at the Program in Islamic Law / SHARIAsource Lab at Harvard Law School are looking for research assistants with a […]
Collaboration with the Library of Congress
Posted on September 06, 2021We are delighted to share with you that the Library of Congress and the Program in Islamic Law have initiated a collaborative effort to “identify, select and assess the copyright status of materials focusing on national […]
Islamic Legal Genres – Christian Müller
Posted on August 18, 2021On July 28, 2020, Christian Müller (CNRS – Paris) presented “Siǧillāt and the transformations of the qadis’ documents in Islamic law (10th-16th centuries).” He examined the genre of Ottoman sijills […]
Islamic Legal Genres – Maribel Fierro
Posted on August 18, 2021On June 30, 2021, Maribel Fierro (CSIC- Madrid) presented “Fatawa compilations: exploring a legal genre in the Islamic West.” Fierro’s lecture examined trends of fatwā compilation in Andalusia and North […]
Islamic Legal Genres – Samy Ayoub
Posted on August 18, 2021On May 26, 2021, Samy Ayoub (University of Texas) presented “Creativity in Continuity: al-Rasa’il al-Fiqhiyya as a Genre for Legal Change.” Ayoub’s lecture expanded an ongoing conversation in the Islamic […]
Islamic Legal Genres – Ahmed El Shamsy
Posted on August 18, 2021On April 28, 2021, Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago) presented “What kind of thing is a gloss (hashiya)?” El Shamsy’s lecture described the history, impact, and receptions of legal […]