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Harvard Law Today announces that Prof. Intisar Rabb has been appointed Special Adviser to the ICC

In 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

The 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 […]

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IQSS spotlights Professor Intisar Rabb

In 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

PIL 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 […]

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RA for Digital Humanities Project with Professor Intisar Rabb and Data Science Fellow Dr. Yusuf Celik

Professor 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

We 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

On 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

On 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

On 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

On 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 […]