ILSS: Haroun Rahimi
Posted on April 18, 2023On Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Haroun Rahimi (The American University of Afghanistan) presented “Taliban and Modernity” as part of our Islamic Law Speaker Series. The presentation explored the Taliban’s approaches to law, rights, governance, education, and the public and private spheres, examining what they can tell us about the […]
Welcome, Rashid Alvi!
Posted on April 13, 2023We are excited to welcome Rashid Alvi, who returns as the Executive Director of the Program in Islamic Law, where he will be working directly with Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb to make possible an exciting slate of new projects in the Program’s SHARIAsource Lab, where we are building data science tools to use with Islamic law texts. Rashid is no stranger to Harvard: he was the Deputy Director […]
Welcome Dr. Madlene Hamilton!
Posted on March 23, 2023We are excited to welcome Dr. Madlene Hamilton to our team as the SHARIAsource Lab & Special Projects Manager. Dr. Hamilton holds a B.S in Child and Human Development and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in Educational Leadership – Policy Studies from George Washington University. She is […]
March Newsletter
Posted on March 23, 2023The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of March! Content includes a welcome to our new SHARIAsource Lab and Special Projects Manager, Dr. Madlene Hamilton, a look at our recent #Hackathon and the primary source it focused on, Ibn Isḥāq’s Kitāb al-maghāzī, last month’s guest blogger, Professor Aaron Rock-Singer, and […]
ILSS: Elizabeth Lhost
Posted on 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
Posted on 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
Posted on 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
Posted on 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
Posted on 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
Posted on 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 […]