Professor Intisar Rabb, Islamic and Criminal Law in Medieval and Modern Times

On June 30, 2021,  PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb presented a lecture on  Islamic criminal law in medieval and modern times. Her lecture is a comparative review of the history […]

Professor Intisar Rabb, “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism at SCOTUS and in Islamic Law”

On April 13, 2022 at 3:50- 5:00 pm (EST), PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb presented the Irving Tragen Lecture on Comparative Law at UC Berkeley Law titled “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism […]

Journal of Islamic Law Volume 3: Special Issue

We are pleased to announce the publication of the third volume of the open-access, peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Law, a special issue on racial justice and equality. We invite you to digitally explore […]

June Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of June! Content includes a year in review, with a video montage of pictures from the past […]

May Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of May! Content includes a note from our Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb,  to recent graduates, an […]

Workshop: Islamic Perspectives on a Posthuman Future, University of Groningen, May 28, 2022

On Saturday the 28th of May, the workshop ‘Islamic Perspectives: on a posthuman future’ will be held at the Court Room, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen. […]

ILSS: Irene Schneider

On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Irene Schneider (Göttingen University) spoke about her new book, “Debating the Law, Creating Gender: Sharia and Lawmaking in Palestine”  (Brill, 2021). […]

April Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of April! Content includes welcoming our new PIL-LC Fellow, Dr. Dilyara Agisheva, recent uploads to our Portal […]

Experiments in Tracking Canons across the Mecelle

Last term, we convened a CnC Research Working Group to bring together a global group of scholars interested in interpretation in Islamic law to share works in progress, read texts, and […]

ILSS: Issam Eido

On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, Professor Issam Eido (Vanderbilt University) presented “Pre-Canonical Islamic Legal Canons: An Analysis of Early Hanafi Literature” as part of our Islamic Law Speaker Series. Eido […]