January Newsletter
Posted on January 24, 2023The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of January! Content includes a Year in Review, an Ottoman formal explanation for the war with Russia […]
Review of Jocelyn Hendrickson’s Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa
Posted on January 19, 2023We are excited to share that the Journal of Early Modern History has published a review of a book from our Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Jocelyn Hendrickson’s (University of […]
December Newsletter
Posted on January 04, 2023The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of December! Content includes our 2023-2024 Data Science Fellowship call, Abū Bakr Ahmad b. ʿAlī al-Jaṣṣāṣ’ Kitāb […]
Data Science Fellowship Application, 2023-2024
Posted on December 07, 2022Harvard Law School’s Program in Islamic Law is seeking a Data Science Fellow to work on various apps in the SHARIAsource Lab, a Harvard initiative designed to deploy data science […]
PIL–LC Research Fellowship Application, 2023-2024
Posted on December 07, 2022In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for the 2023-2024 […]
November Newsletter
Posted on November 18, 2022The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of November! Content includes our ongoing Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law, last month’s Courts […]
Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law
Posted on November 13, 2022On November 1, 2022, via Zoom, we convened a live Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law. Organized by Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School) and Umut Özsu (Carleton University), who are editing […]
Mairaj Syed, “Experiments in Searching for Islam’s Universal Canons on the CnC-Qayyim Platform” – SHARIAsource Lab 2022
Posted on November 13, 2022On Wednesday, October 26th, Professor Mairaj Syed (UC Davis) presented “Experiments in Searching for Islam’s Universal Canons on the CnC-Qayyim Platform” as part of our Courts and Canons (CnC) Working […]
Sarah Bowen Savant, “Ibn ʿAsākir and His History of Damascus: Named Entity Recognition and Text Reuse” – SHARIAsource Lab 2022
Posted on November 13, 2022On Tuesday September 27, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST, Sarah Bowen Savant (Aga Khan University), led a seminar on research in progress that uses the OpenITI corpus, which corpus contains […]
Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary
Posted on October 26, 2022Last month, Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer reflected on his 42-year career as a federal judge at a Harvard Law School forum with Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah […]