Call for Papers: Journal of Islamic Law Special Issue
Posted on October 21, 2022The Journal of Islamic Law invites papers that explore encounters between Islamic law and other legal traditions from the 18th through mid-20th centuries. Scholarship on encounters mostly focuses on colonial history, presenting […]
October Newsletter
Posted on October 20, 2022The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of October! Content includes our recent SHARIAsource events, a new primary source on our Portal, a SHARIAsource […]
Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law
Posted on October 20, 2022We are excited to announce our upcoming Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 from 9:00am-12:00pm EST, in a live webinar over Zoom. Organized by Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School) and Umut […]
Into the Digital Islamic Future: OpenITI Arabic OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP)
Posted on October 19, 2022The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) and SHARIAsource teams led an experts’ workshop on September 29 and 30 entitled ‘Into the Digital Islamic Future,’ held in-person on the University of […]
Former Justice Stephen Breyer Reflects on SCOTUS Career with PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb
Posted on October 07, 2022Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer reflected on his 42-year career as a federal judge at a Harvard Law School forum on Monday, September 19th with Justice Syed Mansoor […]
Dilyara Agisheva, Ukraine from Ottoman Times to Today, W’OTSAp
Posted on October 05, 2022On Friday, September 30th, PIL Research Fellow, Dilyara Agisheva, presented “The Making of Colonial Space in Crimea in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries” at the Ottoman and Turkish Studies […]
September Newsletter
Posted on September 16, 2022The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of September! Content includes our Fall line-up of events, the new Online Companion to Text and Interpretation: […]
August Newsletter
Posted on August 22, 2022The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of August! Content includes our recent publication by Professor Hossein Modarressi, Text & Interpretation, the South African Constitutional […]
Podcast – Intisar Rabb on Interpreting Metacanons
Posted on August 16, 2022Join the discussion with PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb, on interpreting metacanons in this special podcast episode of Borderlines. The podcast builds upon ideas raised at the 2022 Irvine Tragen […]
New Book! Text and Interpretation by Hossein Modarressi
Posted on August 03, 2022We are excited to announce the publication of the latest book in our Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Hossein Modarressi’s Text and Interpretation: Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and His Legacy in […]