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SUMMARY:Course: Digital Islamic Humanities
DESCRIPTION:The three-day intensive course in Digital Islamic Humanities is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be offered by Dr Maxim Romanov (Universität Wien) and will be held immediately before the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Ghent University\, in collaboration with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (July 2-4\, 2018). The course will be demanding and hands-on in its format\, but no previous training is required. The course will cover topics such as digitization\, computational analysis\, datamodelling\, etc.\, and will introduce digital tools\, projects\, repositories and practices that are currently available for historical/Islamic/Mamluk research. The Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies wiill immediately follow.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/course-digital-islamic-humanities/
LOCATION:Ghent University\, Ghent\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180706
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History
DESCRIPTION:This workshop takes place within the project Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? (EURO-EXPERT) funded by the European Research Council and directed by Livia Holden. This workshop explores cultural expertise in the ancient and modern history of expert witnessing. The stress of this workshop will be on development and change of culture-related expert witnessing\, culture-related adjudication and resolution of dispute\, criminal litigation and other kinds of court and out of court proceedings that make reference to notions of culture with or without the appointment of experts. Two sets of topics will be discussed: the reflection on the definition of cultural expertise and its ancient and modern historical background. This workshop aims on the one hand to understand if cultural expertise has been relevant in court and out of court for the resolution of conflicts in the history of law\, and on the other hand to trace the historical developments of most recent trends of cultural expertise. How does ancient and modern history report the judicial practices involving the specialists of local laws and customs? What have been the most frequent fields of expert witnessing that are related with culture? Who were the experts? What were their links with local communities and also with the courts and the state power? How cultural expert witnessing was received by judges and other members of the legal profession?
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-cultural-expertise-in-ancient-and-modern-history/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,courses,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180704
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180708
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
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SUMMARY:Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
DESCRIPTION:The first day of the conference\, July 5\, will be themed. The theme of this part of the conference will be Historiography/Adab. The following two days of the conference (July 6 and 7) will be structured in pre-organized panels that will focus on any aspect of the intellectual\, political\, social\, economic\, and artistic life of the Mamluk period.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/fifth-conference-of-the-school-of-mamluk-studies/
LOCATION:Ghent University\, Ghent\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180712
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20180705T053327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180705T053327Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
DESCRIPTION:As a global religion\, Islam and its jurisprudence have offered heterogeneous responses to a range of questions facing different faiths and communities. Modernity imposed new questions upon religious scholars\, theologians and philosophers\, demanding of them a new version of pluralism in the theological and political arenas. While doctrinal or philosophical exclusivism rejects “the other” in theory — and frequently in practice\, too — inclusivism connotes the accommodation and toleration of difference. But if that means the reluctant acceptance of difference within a hierarchy of worldviews\, inclusion may not be enough to create more egalitarianism within modern multicultural societies. Modern pluralism might come to mean\, instead\, a robust appreciation of human diversity and values. \nReset Dialogues in partnership with the King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences and the Granada Institute for Higher Education and Research are pleased to present this international symposium that was made possible also thanks to the support of Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs\, Nomis Foundation and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-sources-of-pluralism-in-islamic-thought/
LOCATION:Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz\, Casablanca\, Morocco
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180916
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20180910T005424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180910T005424Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: West Africa and the Maghreb (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century \n  \nThursday\, September 13\, 2018 \nWelcome Address 5.30-5.45 PM \nDavid N. Hempton\, Dean of Harvard Divinity School \nHDS Faculty Grant Program \nJanet Gyatso\, Academic Dean of Harvard Divinity School \nKeynote Lecture \n5.45-7.00 PM \nOusmane Kane\, “The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa” \n  \nFriday\, September 14\, 2018 \nPanel 1:  Sufism and Sufi Orders in Muslim Africa\n9.15 AM-11.15 AM \nChair: Stephanie Paulsell\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nArmaan Sidiqi\, Harvard University\, “Examining Sufis in Politics and ‘Politicized Sufism’: a case study of the Boutchichiyya” \nJaison M. Carter\, Harvard University\, ”Black Muslimness Mobilized: A Study of West African Sufism in Diaspora”\nAriela Marcus-Sells\, Elon University\, “Technologies of Devotion in the works of Sidi Mukhtar al-Kunti”\nChristine Thun-Nhi Dang\, New York University\, “The Politics of Love in African Performances of Sufi Poetry”\n\n  \nPanel 2: Prayers\, Invocations and the Talismanic Tradition\n12.00 PM-2.00 PM \nChair: Kimberly C. Patton\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nJames C. Riggan\, Florida State University\, “Qur’anic Exorcism in North and West Africa”\nZachary Wright\, Northwestern University Qatar and Adam Larson\, Weill Cornell University – Qatar\,“Genealogy of Prayer Manuals 18thCentury to the Present”\nPaul Anderson\, Harvard\, “Bewitched\, Bothered and Bewildered: A Reconsideration of the Evil Eye and Ruqyah through Ethnographic Analysis”\nOludamini Ogunnaike\, College of Williams and Mary\, “Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madih Poetry and its Precedents”\n\n  \nPanel 3: Re-evalutating the Historic Core Curriculum\n2.45-4.45 PM \nChair: Charles Hallisey\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nIsmail Warcheid\, CNRS France\, “Scholarly Networks\, Legal Debates\, and Territorial Integration”\nDavid Owen\, Harvard University\, “Of Radd and Sharḥ and Ṭurra : The Long and Late Dynamism of the African Commentary Tradition on Akhḍarī’s Sullam on Avicennian Organon Logic”\nAlexis Trouillot\, Université Paris VII\,  “The Study of Mathematics in the Sahel from the 15thto the 20th”\nAbubakar Abdulkadir\, University of Alberta\, Canada\, “Poetry in West Africa and the Maghreb”\n\n  \n17.00-18.00 Concert by Noor Ensemble (Braun Room)\nNoor Ensemble is composed of artists from Morocco\, Palestine\, Lebanon\, Egypt and Iraq who sing for God\, Prophets and Peace and Love. Noor Ensemble try to build up the bridge between all nations and people \n  \nSaturday\, September 15\, 2018 \nPanel 4: Jihadi Ideology: What is new\, what is not? \n8.30 AM-10.30 AM \nChair: Francis X. Clooney\, S.J.\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nWilliam Miles\, Northeastern University\, “Jihadism in Muslim West Africa in historical perspective”\nAbdulbasit Kassim\, Rice University\, Jihadi-Salafism and the Vocabulary of Takfīr in the 21st Century Hausaland and Bornu”\nZekeria Ould Ahmed Salem\, Northwestern University Evanston\, “Assessing the Salafi Current in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania”\nAnouar Boukhars\, McDaniel College\, “The Strategic Incentives for Insurgents to Embrace Extreme Ideology: The Case of the Sahel and Maghreb”\n\n  \nPanel 5: New Intellectual Connections \n10.45 AM-12.45 PM \nChair: Jacob K. Olupona\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nMansour Kedidir\, CRASC Algeria\, “Connections of Intellectuals in the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa: Trajectories and Representations”\nFatima Harrak\, Institute of African Studies\, Rabat Morocco\, “Research on Moroccan-African Relations at the Rabat Institute of African Studies”\nRobert Parks\,  CEMA\, Algeria\, “American Research Centers in North Africa and Sahara-Sahel Studies”\nEbrima Sall\, Trust Africa\, Senegal “CODESRIA and the New Pan-Africanist Intellectual Connections Across the Sahara”
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-west-africa-and-the-maghreb-harvard-university/
LOCATION:Harvard Divinity School\, Sperry Room\, 45 Francis Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180923
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
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SUMMARY:Conference: Historiography/Ideology/Law II
DESCRIPTION:This conference is a follow-up to a series of conversations on the relations between historiography\, ideology\, and law that took place at the University of Helsinki in March 2018. Among other things\, the Boston College conference will take up a set of questions about the recent trajectory of critical legal history\, as well as about what scholars familiar with cognate debates (notably\, in intellectual history and in general theories of legal change) might add to the discussion. \nFor more information\, please contact Paulo Barrozo (617-792-9475; barrozo@bc.edu). \nClick here for discounted reservations at the Crowne Plaza Boston-Newton. For those who wish\, a shuttle will take participants to the Law School campus (1.5 miles away) in the morning and back to the hotel at the end of the day. \n**Dr. Nahed Samour\, SHARIAsource Early Abbasid Iraq and Iran Editor\, will be presenting on Islamic international law.** \n  \nAgenda: \nFriday\, Sept. 21 \n9-9:15\nWelcome: Paulo Barrozo\nIntroductory Remarks: Justin Desautels-Stein & Sam Moyn \n9:15-10:45\nPanel I: Method Madness I\nBernie Meyler\, Stanford University\n– Aesthetic Historiography\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\n– The Roots of Legal Thought: Notes Toward a Methodology\nPaulo Barrozo\, Boston College\n– History of Law in the Evolution of Law\nJustin Desautels-Stein\, University of Colorado\n– Ideology in Context \n10:45-11\nBreak \n11-12:15\nPanel II: Method Madness II\nNahed Samour\, University of Berlin\n– The Dark Entanglement: Islamic International Law and Legal Historiography\nSamuli Seppanen\, University of Hong Kong\n– Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship\nNatasha Wheatley\, Princeton University\n– Law and the Time of Angels: International Law’s Method Wars and the Temporal Properties of Normativity \n12:15-1:15\nLunch \n1:15-2:30\nPanel III: Left Legal History\nAnthony Farley\, Albany\n– A General Theory of Law and Marxism\, or\, History as Race Consciousness\nNtina Tzouvala\, University of Melbourne\n– Provincializing Europe-not Capital-in the History of International Law\nRob Hunter\, Independent Scholar\n– Marxism and Legal Change\nAkbar Rasulov\, University of Glasgow\n– Taking Hohfeld Seriously: Marxist Legal Historiography Post-CLS \n2:30-2:45\nBreak \n2:45-4:15\nRoundtable Discussion I: What is Left?\nKarl Klare\, Umut Ozsu\, Duncan Kennedy \nSaturday\, Sept. 22 \n9-10:30\nPanel IV: Constitutional Change in Brazil & India\nBreno Baia Magalhaes\, Universidade da Amazônia\n– Subnational Constitutionalism and Constitutional Change in Brazil: The Impact of Federalism in Constitutional Stability\nAna Beatriz Robalinho\, University of Sao Paulo\n– Constitutional Mutation and Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil\nLeonardo Barbosa\, Brazilian Chamber of Deputies\n– Legislative Process and Constitutional Change in Brazil: On the Pathologies of the Procedure for Amending the 1988 Constitution\nRohit De\, Yale University\n– The Jurisprudence of Decolonization: Transregional Legal Geographies and Rebellious Lawyering in Asia and Africa \n10:30–10:45\nBreak \n10:45-12:15\nPanel V: Histories of Rights\nMaeve Glass\, Columbia University\n– America’s Unwritten Constitutional History\nDan Edelstein\, Stanford University\n– Revolutionary Rights\nElizabeth Anker\, Cornell University\n– The Right Paradox\nAmy Cohen\, Ohio State University\n– Critical Historiographies and the Legal Imagination: Reshaping the Human Rights Discourses \n12:15-1:15\nLunch \n1:15-2:45\nPanel VI: History\, for Real\nBen Levin\, University of Colorado\n– Critical Criminal Legal Histories (Or Their Absence)\nDan Priel\, Osgoode Hall\n– Where Realism Really Was\nJohn Henry Schlegel\, Buffalo\n– Perhaps the Third Turtle Down\nChuck Colman\, University of Hawaii\n– The Elephant in the Room \n2:45-3\nBreak \n3-4:30\nRoundtable Discussion II: Critical Historicism Today\nNathaniel Berman\, Laura Weinrib\, Judith Surkis\, Anna di Robilant
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-historiography-ideology-law-ii/
LOCATION:Boston College Law School\, Faculty Lounge\, Stuart Hall\, 4th Floor\, 885 Centre St.\, Newton Center\, MA\, 02459
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180929
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20180801T051910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180801T051910Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Uses of the Past in Islamic Law
DESCRIPTION:The program for the “Understanding Shari’a: Perfect Past\, Imperfect Present” (USPPIP) end-of-project conference is available here. \nThe conference is free to attend but registration is necessary. Please register by sending an email to usppip@exeter.ac.uk detailing which days/sessions you will be attending. Registration is open until 1 pm UK time on Friday\, September 21st. Those attending from outside Exeter can accompany the participants at the evening meals (for which there will be a charge); while we cannot arrange accommodation for attendees\, we can advise on convenient local hotels. As places are limited\, allocation will be on a first-come-first-served basis.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-uses-of-the-past-in-islamic-law/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181009
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20181002T111744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181002T111744Z
UID:10000845-1538956800-1539043199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lecture: Aga Khan University: Sharia in Europe?
DESCRIPTION:The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations is hosting Sharia in Europe? — In Anticipation of the ECtHR Ruling on the Molla Sali v Greece Case on Monday 8 October 2018\, 12:30-14:30. \nAbstracts\nSharia Law in Europe: A Greek Case Before the ECtHR that May Bring Changes\nKonstantinos Tsitselikis\, University of Macedonia \nSharia courts in Greece adjudicate cases of family and inheritance law disputes among Muslims of Thrace. This unique case of a semi-state Sharia courts in Europe is often seen as related to discrepancies of procedural character and non-compliance with fundamental human rights principles. One case has reached the European Court of Human Rights (Molla Sali v Greece\, Grand Chamber) and the judgment is expected to be announced in December 2018. The case will put to fore a series of issues in relation to the position of Sharia within the European legal order and eventually the limits of legal pluralism in a democratic society. \nGreek Mufti System in a Global Perspective: Reform (?) in the Triangle of Thrace\, Athens and Strasbourg \nYüksel Sezgin\, Syracuse University \nSince the case of Molla Sali v. Greece  has made headlines across Western Europe\, it has become very clear that there is a widespread ignorance about the Muslim law in Greece. Many commentators have treated the Greek case as an anachronistic exception while forgetting about the fact that Greece is only one of the fifty-three nations in the world where Muslim family laws are currently integrated into national legal systems. Among these fifty-three countries\, aside from Greece\, there are seventeen other non-Muslim majority nations. In this respect\, this presention will place the Greek mufti system in a global perspective along with Muslim family law systems from Israel\, India and others while discussing how the current mufti system in Greece compares to the rest of world\, and what kind of changes we may accept in the light of recent legislative changes as well as the forthcoming ECtHR ruling. \nSpeakers\nKonstantinos Tsitselikis\, University of Macedonia (applicant on the case)\nYüksel Sezgin\, Syracuse University \nRemarks from\nMarie-Bénédicte Dembour\, University of Brighton (on the ECtHR)\nSamia Bano\, SOAS (on British Muslims) \nChair\nGianluca Parolin\, AKU-ISMC \nTime and Venue\nMonday 8 October 2018\, 12:30-14:30\nAtrium Conference Room\nAga Khan Centre\n10 Handyside Street\nLondon N1C 4DN \nBooking\nThis event is free but booking is essential:\nTo attend in person\, please click here.\nTo attend online\, please click here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more info\, contact: Layal Mohammad\, Coordinator
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/lecture-aga-khan-university-sharia-in-europe/
CATEGORIES:events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181014
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20180626T214116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T214116Z
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SUMMARY:Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this exploratory and informal workshop is to reflect on methodologies\, research agendas\, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present. We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working on history writing in the region.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/arabic-pasts-histories-and-historiographies/
CATEGORIES:events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181028
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20181015T012709Z
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SUMMARY:UChicago Shi'i Studies Symposium
DESCRIPTION:(Free and Open to the Public) \nAbout the Symposium\nThe University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Symposium is an endeavor of the Shiʿi Studies Group\, established in 2010\, to provide an interdisciplinary\, non-area-specific forum for the discussion of research on Shiʿism by faculty and graduate students at the University and beyond. The annual symposium aims to strengthen the field of Shiʿi Studies by bringing together a group of both senior and early-career scholars to present research and to cultivate an environment for intellectual discussion and collaboration. At each symposium we aim to address a focused set of questions with cross-cutting relevance to scholars working on various periods and from various disciplinary perspectives. \nThe Shiʿi Studies Symposium is supported by the generosity of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, the Franke Institute for Humanities\, the University of Chicago Graduate Council\, the Department of Near Eastern Language and Civilization\, the Department of History\, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Organizers: Mohammad Sagha (msagha@uchicago.edu) and Zach Winters (zwinters@uchicago.edu). For any questions or assistance for persons with disabilities please contact the organizers. \n******** \nFriday\, Oct. 26 \nLight Breakfast – (8:45-9:20) \nOpening Remarks – (9:20-9:30)\nMohammad Sagha (University of Chicago) and Zach Winters (University of Chicago) \nPanel 1 – Shi’a-Sunni Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean (9:30-11:30)\nChair: TBA\n1. Pascal Abidor (McGill University)\, Public Faces of Ottoman Shi’ism: The ʿĀmilī ʿUlamāʾ and the Matāwila Shaykhs\n2. Abdul Rahman Latif (Columbia University)\, Ottoman Menakibnames and ‘Alid Identity\n3. Seyed Amir Asghari (Indiana University)\, Shī’a Mysticism in Bektashi Doctrines\n4. Linda Sayed (Michigan State University)\, The Writing of Shiʿi History during the French Mandate \nCoffee break (11:30-12:00) \nPanel 2 – The Geopolitics of Shi’ism in the Middle East (12:00 – 1:30)\nChair: TBA\n1. Payam Mohseni (Harvard University)\, Iran and the Geopolitics of Regional Order\n2. Hassan Ahmadian (Harvard University)\, Armed Movements and Religious Mobilization in the Middle East\n3. Mohammad Sagha (University of Chicago)\, Shi’i Islam and Politics in the Middle East: State of the Field \nLunch – (1:30-2:30) \nPanel 3 – Denominations\, Sects\, and Identity in the Islamic Tradition (2:30-4:30)\nChair: Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago)\n1. Aun Hasan Ali (University of Colorado\, Boulder)\, Sunnī ḥadīth in Imāmī law\n2. I-Wen Su (National Chengchi University)\, Moving towards the Four-Caliphs Thesis? The Early Kūfan Traditionists’ Views on the Rightly Guided Caliphs\n3. Roy Vilozny (University of Haifa)\, Did Ibn Taymiyya Really Not Understand al-ʽAllāma al-Ḥillī?\n4. Ahmad Chehab (University of Michigan)\, Alawites and the Syrian Civil War: Orthodoxy\, Violence and the Concept of Islam \nKeynote Lecture\, Maria Dakake (Professor of Islamic Thought\, George Mason University) – 4:30-6:30; Moderated by Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)\nCo-Sponsored with the University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) Friday Lecture Series \nDinner – 6:30 \n******** \nSaturday\, Oct. 27 \nPanel 4 – Jewish-Shi’i Socio-Cultural History (9:00 – 10:30)\nChair: Paul Walker (University of Chicago)\n1. Moshe Yagur (University of Michigan)\, Conversion as a non-issue: conversion to and from Judaism under the Fatimids\n2. Miriam Frenkel (Hebrew University)\, Ritual Encounters in Fatimid Jerusalem\n3. Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)\, How the Jews of Hilla learned to hate Mu‘awaiya: Shi‘i Jewish relations in Hashemite Iraq \nCoffee break (10:30-10:45) \nPanel 5 – Isma’ili Origins and Problematizing Sectarian Identity (10:45-12:15)\nChair: Tahera Qutbuddin (University of Chicago)\n1. Paul Walker (University of Chicago)\, The Origin\, Earliest History and Doctrine of the Taʿlīmiyya\n2. Rodrigo Adem (El Colegio de México)\, Ismāʿīlism as Original Shīʿism\n3. Khalil Andani (Harvard University)\, “Ismailism”: The Sectarian Construction of a Scholarly Category \nLunch – (12:15-1:00) \nPanel 6 – Shi’i Identity and Interpretation (1:00 – 3:00)\nChair: Franklin Lewis (University of Chicago)\n1. Ibrahim Kazerooni (University of Detroit)\, Construction of Muslim Identity via Shi’a Interpretive Practice\n2. Cameron Zargar (UCLA)\, Taqlīd ‘s Function in Creating a Community of Pious Imamis\n3. Louis Medoff (The Shi’ah Institute)\, What Makes a Modern Shiʿi Tafsīr Shiʿi?\n4. Seyede Pouye Khoshkhoosani (Northwestern University)\, Shi‘ism in the Safavid Masnavīs: What Does a Shi‘i King Mean for the Safavid Poets? \nCoffee break (3:00-3:15) \nPanel 7 – Political Parties and Movements in Iraq\, Lebanon\, and Afghanistan (3:15-5:15)\nChair: Payam Mohseni (Harvard University)\n1. Marsin Almashary (MIT)\, The Ideological Transformation of the Da’wa Party (1958-2018)\n2. Robert Riggs (University of Bridgeport)\, Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr’s Social Movement: Sectarian Formation?\n3. Abed Kanaaneh (Columbia University)\, The New Lebanese Nationalism: The Muqawamah (Resistance) Nationalism\n4. Krishna Kulkarni (University of Chicago)\, The Hazaras\, Shi’ism\, and Community Formation in Modern Afghanistan
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/uchicago-shii-studies-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Group\, Swift Hall\, 1025 E. 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181030
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20181011T102909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181011T102909Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Ḥadīth\, Law and Theology in Early Shiʿīte Islam (London)
DESCRIPTION:A collaborative workshop by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the Law\, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. The workshop is free to attend\, but places are limited. Pre-registration is required. To register\, please email lawalisi@exeter.ac.uk before Tuesday\, October 23rd.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-%e1%b8%a5adith-law-and-theology-in-early-shi%ca%bfite-islam-london/
LOCATION:Aga Khan Centre\, 10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181112
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20180626T214643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T214643Z
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SUMMARY:American Society for Legal Society Annual Meeting: "Judges and Courts in Islamic History"
DESCRIPTION:This session’s date is TBD. Panelists will include Raha Rafii\, PhD Candidate in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at UPenn\, Amir Toft\, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago and research fellow at Yale Law School\, and Intisar Rabb\, Professor of Law and History at Harvard Law School and Harvard University.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/american-society-for-legal-society-annual-meeting-judges-and-courts-in-islamic-history/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181110
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20181011T103252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181011T103252Z
UID:10001043-1541721600-1541807999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Ibn Taymiyya and the Shi’a (Exeter\, UK)
DESCRIPTION:A workshop organized by the Law\, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. To register\, please email lawalisi@exeter.ac.uk.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-ibn-taymiyya-and-the-shia-exeter-uk/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181111
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20181102T022819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181102T022819Z
UID:10001050-1541721600-1541894399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Conference: Law\, Islam and Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:The conference brings together the disciplines of law\, anthropology and Islamic studies\, with all of their multiple entanglements. Conference papers address field observation\, as well as methods and theories that provide insights into norms that are often given Islamic justification. The discussion will range from the traditional domain of family-related regulations regarding commercial transactions to the perception of ethical norms in daily life. Questions such as actor-driven social distinctions and cross-societal processes of interpreting and applying Islamic texts and tradition will be emphasized. The diverse perspectives represented at the conference will help identify the manifold perceptions of ‘law’\, ‘anthropology’ and ‘Islam’ in order to enrich a multidisciplinary understandings of them. \nClick here for the program. \nIf you are interested in participating\, please email islamiclawconference2018@eth.mpg.de.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-law-islam-and-anthropology/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181119
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20180917T033254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180917T033254Z
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SUMMARY:Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2018 Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Since 1967\, MESA has held an annual meeting in the fall where members gather to share research. MESA has been the hub for scholarly exchange from its first meeting at The University of Chicago in 1967 where a small group gathered for eight sessions to MESA’s 50th anniversary meeting in Boston in 2016 where 312 sessions delighted more than 2\,000 attendees. The meeting features panels and special sessions on a variety of topics related to Middle East studies. It is complemented by meetings of MESA’s affiliated groups\, an exciting 4-day film festival\, a comprehensive book bazaar featuring the latest books and software in the field\, and other informal events. The meeting provides an opportunity for friends and colleagues from a variety of disciplines to gather to share their common bond: the study of this important region of the world. \nA searchable 2018 annual meeting program is available here. (This is always the most up-to-date listing.) The preliminary program is available in PDF here. \nThe following panels may be of special interest to Islamic law scholars: \nThursday\, Nov. 15th: \nConstitutions in the Contemporary Middle East: (How) do they still matter? \nCultural Trends in the Abbasid Period \nFriday\, Nov. 16th: \nProtests and Discriminations \nAlcohol and Drinking in the Ottoman Empire \nTopics in Islamic Ritual Law \nGlobal Histories of Slavery in the Premodern Middle East and Beyond \nSaturday\, Nov. 17th: \nUnorthodoxies Shi’ism\, Sufism\, Feminism \nGender\, Law and Violence in Lebanon – feminist contestations post-Arab uprisings \nEarly Women’s Voices \nSunday\, Nov. 18th: \nReconsidering Tunisia: Revolutionary and Post Revolutionary Politics\, Society\, and Religion \nSuccession and Legitimate Caliphate \nParties\, National Dialogues and Elections In Contemporary Middle East Politics \nCivil Society and Governance in the Middle East \nRuler of the East and the West: Notions of Universal Rule in Early Modern Ottoman History\, 1400-1800 \nWidows\, Adulteresses and Brides: Gender\, Power\, and Society in the Ottoman First World War
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/middle-east-studies-association-mesa-2018-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Grand Hyatt San Antonio\, San Antonion\, TX
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181126
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20181112T050344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181112T050344Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Sharia\, Segregation and Secularism
DESCRIPTION:Held in central London\, this conference will raise key issues surrounding religious arbitration\, the veil and gender segregation at schools and universities\, including as part of the religious-Right’s assault on women’s rights. It will also highlight the voices of people on the frontlines of resistance\, the gains made by secularists both in the UK and internationally\, and the importance of secularism as a minimum precondition for equality. Challenges that secularists continue to face and priorities for continued collective action will also be addressed. \nThe agenda is available here. Highlights include: \n10:00 – Keynote Address: Asia Bibi Lawyer Saif Ul Malook\, “Asia Bibi’s Fight for Justice” \n10:50 – Film Screening\n3 Second Divorce by Director Shazia Javed\nScreening – for the first time in the UK – a new film exploring the impact of instant triple-talaq on Indian Muslim women through intimate stories of women who have been victimized by it. It also provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the struggle of Muslim women activists in India who are tirelessly fighting to get a legal ban on this practice. \n11:40 – Plenary Panel\n“Sharia\, religious arbitration and family law”\nChair: Gita Sahgal; Afsana Lachaux\, Diana Nammi\, Houzan Mahmoud\, Nasreen Rehman\, Sadikur Rahman\, Yasmin Rehman
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-sharia-segregation-and-secularism/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181215
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20181128T173938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T173938Z
UID:10001055-1544745600-1544831999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:UK Family Law Conference: "Relationship Breakdown: Informal and Legal Solutions"
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary: \nThis symposium focuses on relationship breakdown where there is no state recognised marriage. This may include couples in a religious-only marriage\, those whose ceremony was conducted by a non-religious belief organisation\, those who are cohabiting\, or a range of other relationship types which fall outside of the ambit of a state recognised marriage.  It also considers the role of religious tribunals where there is a state recognised marriage. … \nThe issue of gender inequality and agency in family law and family practice also arises. Where informal dispute resolution is concerned\, Shariah Councils stand accused of perpetuating gender inequality in both access to services (payment of fees by mainly women users) and the Islamic principles being applied. Where financial outcomes for cohabitants are concerned\, there is a comparable gender imbalance of the financial impact upon relationship breakdown. The issue of cultural norms and transitions including the evolving nature of the ‘family’ questions the adequacy of the current family law regime in England and Wales. This symposium seeks to propose a far-reaching range of legal solutions which can be used as the basis for a change in the law. \nSee website for agenda\, speaker bios\, and registration form (£40).
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/uk-family-law-conference-relationship-breakdown-informal-and-legal-solutions/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190307
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20190301T024312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190301T024312Z
UID:10000871-1551744000-1551916799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Conference: Criminal Law Developments in Muslim-Majority Countries
DESCRIPTION:Criminal Law Developments in the Muslim-Majority Countries in the Light of Interaction between Shari’a and Law \nIn response to a complex of internal and international factors\, the judicial and legal structures of Muslim majority countries have changed drastically in the recent decades. Importantly\, the experience of modern criminal law in the context of constitutional making processes in the Muslim countries has not been thoroughly discussed yet – particularly\, from a comparative perspective. Against this background\, this project aims to make a strong contribution to the debate on criminal law reform in the context of public demand for Islamic justice. \nClick here for the agenda. \nSHARIAsource Senior Scholar Asifa Quraishi-Landes will be presenting on “A New Constitutional Solution to the Challenge of Islamic Criminal Law\,” and South Asia Editor Zubair Abbasi will be presenting on “Judicial Application of Hudood Laws in Pakistan.”
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-criminal-law-developments-in-muslim-majority-countries/
LOCATION:University of Tehran\, Tehran\, Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T170000
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20190301T020614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190301T020614Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard Workshop: Research Methods in Islamic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Summary: In this workshop\, researchers will learn how to organize\, manipulate\, and visualize their data. We will first focus on good data organization practices and use spreadsheets to tidy and wrangle several datasets. We will then manipulate\, clean\, and enhance our data in OpenRefine\, a powerful tool for working with messy data. Finally\, we will demonstrate how it is possible to visualize and understand clean data. \nRequirements: Attendees should bring laptops with Excel\, OpenOffice\, or LibreOffice installed; they should also install OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/download.html) prior to the workshop. \nContact: Please RSVP at bit.ly/AISP2019 and contact Johannes Makar\, Workshop Coordinator\, with any questions at jmakar@g.harvard.edu. \nLamont Library\nRoom B30\n11 Quincy St.\nCambridge
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/harvard-workshop-research-methods-in-islamic-studies/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Cambridge\, MA
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,digital humanities,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks,tech
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190406
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20190320T012550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T012550Z
UID:10000877-1554422400-1554508799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Registration Deadline for British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
DESCRIPTION:BRAIS 2019The Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies \nMonday 15th – Tuesday 16th April 2019  \nTeaching and Learning Building\, University Park\, University of Nottingham\, NG7 2RD \n  \nREGISTRATION FOR BRAIS 2019 IS NOW OPEN. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. \n  \nPROVISIONAL PROGRAMME \n  \nAll panels and plenaries will take place in the Teaching and Learning Building\, University Park\, University of Nottingham\, NG7 2RD \nSunday 14th April \n15:00 – 23:30 Arrival and Registration (arrivals after 23:30 must inform the conference organizers three days in advance) \n  \nMonday 15th April \n9:30 – 9:45 Words of Welcome \n  \n9:45 – 11:00 Plenary  \nKhaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)\, ‘Implementing Shari’a in Modern Egypt: A Medical Perspective’ \n  \n11:00 – 11:30 Coffee/Tea \n  \n11:30 – 13:00 Panel Session 1 \n  \n\n Emigration: Conceptualising hijra from the Qur’an to medieval Islamic thought\n\nChair: Saqib Hussain (University of Oxford) \nSaqib Hussain (University of Oxford) Displacement and Punishment: hijra and militancy as components of the Qur’an’s punishment stories \nHasher Nisar (University of Oxford) Exploring the Concept of hijra in Qur’anic Commentaries \nNabeelah Jaffer (University of Oxford) The Estranged Emigrant: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s engagement with hijra and ghurba \n  \n\n Contemporary Muslim Societies in the Middle East and Asia\n\nChair: Dietrich Reetz (Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies) \nMurad Ismayilov (University of Cambridge) State-Society Relations & the Changing Landscape of Political Islam in Azerbaijan \nCorina Lozovan (Lund University) Religion in a landscape of change: the role of Ibadi-Islam in contemporary Omani society \nGeoffrey Nash (SOAS) Women madrasa students access to mainstream university education in India  \nWikke Jansen (Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies) Negotiations with the Prophet Lūṭ: Alternative Muslim Scholarship on Sexuality and Gender in Indonesia \n  \n\n Medieval Muslim Societies \n\nPhilip Grant (University of Edinburgh) Neither free markets nor state intervention: economics and al-sulṭān in the high Abbasid period \nYossef Rapoport (Queen Mary University of London) City plans in medieval Islam \nSara Mohanna (SOAS) Nasrid Granada Based on the Testimony of Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s (d.1374) al-Iḥāṭā fī Akhbār Gharnāṭa \nLubaaba Al-Azami (University of Liverpool) Princess Power: Imperial Formation and the Mughal Zenana \n  \n\n Classical Islamic Theology and Philosophy\n\nDavid Bennett (Göteborgs Universitet) Sense Perception in early Kalām \nAlaa Murad (Brandeis University) Aberration in Ibn Ḥazm’s al-Fiṣal \nHannah Erlwein (LMU Munich) The Function of the sharīʿa in Ibn Sīnā’s Political Thought \nFuga Kimura (University of Tokyo) Comparative Study between al-Ghazālī and Maimonides: their theory about obligation of repentance to God based on human free will \n  \n\n Issues in European Islam\n\nIma Sri Rahmani (Université Catholique de Louvain) What is wrong with a headscarf in a court room? \nGlen Moran (University of Birmingham) Harun Yahya and the “rise in Islamic creationism” \n  \n\nEarly Islamic Law\n\nSalman Younas (University of Oxford) Istiḥsān in the Early Ḥanafī School \nHassaan Shahawy (University of Oxford) Subjective Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period: An Empirical Anatomy of al-Shaybānī’s Aṣl \nMohammad-Payam Saadat-Sarmadi (University of Exeter) Qiyās upon Qiyās: al-Shāfiʿī’s analogical arguments for analogy and their reception \nYoucef Soufi (University of British Columbia) The Rise of the Munāẓara in Classical Islamic Legal Thought  \n  \n13:00 – 14:00 Lunch \n  \n14:00 – 15:30 Panel Session 2 \n  \n\n Clerical Networks\, Discourses and the State in Modern Twelver Shi’ism\n\n Chair: Oliver Scharbrodt (University of Birmingham) \nMohammad Mesbahi (The Islamic College) An assessment of the collective leadership of Maraje Thalath \nChristopher Pooya (University of Birmingham) Motahari and the Consequences of Instrumental Reason: State\, Social Justice\, and Fitrah \nOliver Scharbrodt (University of Birmingham) Modernising clerical authority in Twelver Shiism: consultation (shura)\, clerics\, and the state \nYousif Al-Hilli (University of Birmingham) The political influence of the Najafi Marja’iyya in contemporary Iraq:  the role of Friday midday prayer sermons in 2014 \n  \n\n Islam and Society in Britain I\n\nBasma Elshayyal (Warwick University) The phone’s your dunya\, the mushaf’s your akhira”: the impact of Qur’anic study on Young British Muslim Women \nFella Lahmar (Markfield Institute of Higher Education) Practising Islam\, Fundamental British Values and Muslim schooling \nMusleh Faradhi (Markfield Institute of Higher Education) The application of Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat in British Islamic Schooling \n  \n\n Sunni Law School Dynamics in History\n\nElias Saba (Grinnell College) Coherence from Disagreement: Disputations and Distinctions in Early Islamic Law \nMohammed Al Dhfar (University of Nottingham) Al-Subkī on how the beginning of the month of Dhū al-Ḥijja should be determined \nMustafa Baig (University of Exeter) Living in non-Muslim Lands: Maliki legal positions in Almoravid Spain \nFarah El-Sharif (Harvard University) The Salafi Sūfis of 19th Century West and North Africa \n  \n\n Early Islamic History and Literature\n\nMohammad Ghandehari (University of Tehran) Sulaym b. Qays al-Hilālī or Abū Sadiq al-Azdī?: The question of authorship for the oldest surviving Shī‘ite book \nNuha Alshaar (The Institute of Ismaili Studies/American University of Sharjah) Pre-Modern Arabic Literary Anthologies and the Social Imaginary: The Construction of Social\, Cultural and Political Paradigms \nFozia Bora (University of Leeds) What’s in a mukhtaṣar? Abridgement as epistemic agency \nSohail Hanif (University of Oxford) The Hanafi Classification of Legal Rulings \n  \n\n Contemporary Islamic Theology\n\nTaraneh Wilkinson (FSCIRE) Tawhid as a Response to Pluralism in Turkish Muslim Thought \nSerafettin Pektas (UC Louvain) Imago Raḥmān: A Modern Muslim Theological Anthropology \nAbbas Ahsan (University of Birmingham) Quine’s Ontology and the Islamic Tradition \nRamon Harvey (Ebrahim College) Reasoning from the Quantum to God: A Neo-Māturīdī Stance \n  \n\nIslamic Texts\, Biblical Sources and Oriental Archives\n\nDavid Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma) Origins and Sources of the Islamic Psalms of David \nSeyfeddin Kara (Hartford Seminary) Comparing the levels of faith in the Bible and Qur’an: Examining the Parables of the Sower and the Rainstorm \nNayra Zaghloul (University of Oxford) The Ouseley Manuscripts: A History \n  \n15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea \n  \n16:00 – 17:30 Panel Session 3 \n  \n\n Medieval Islamic Theology\, Philosophy and Science\n\nMichael Noble (LMU Munich) The Occult Source of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Counter-Avicennan Prophetology \nSafaruk Chowdhury (The King Fahad Academy) Destructibles and Indestructibles: Examining Some Problems Related to Resurrection and Bodily Continuity in Medieval Islamic Theology \nOmar Anchassi (University of Edinburgh) Stacks of Plates and Cosmic Kebabs: Some Reflections on Muslim Receptions of Scientific Cosmographies \n  \n\n Islam and Society in Britain II\n\nDavide Pettinato (University of Exeter) A ‘Ramadan Revolution’: exploring the “ethical” and the “everyday” in the discourse of the youth-led British Muslim charity MADE \nSaleema Burney (SOAS) Ordinary women\, extraordinary lives: a case study of British Muslim Women negotiating successful\, hybridised identities in the ‘third space’ \nAbi Woodward (Sheffield Hallam University) The power of collective participation: Exploring the coping strategies of Pakistani Muslims \nNicole Lehmann (Nottingham University) The Muslimah entrepreneur and how religion informs their intersectional social positioning \n  \n\n The Qur’an and Its Interpretation I\n\nRedhwan Karim (SOAS) Zīna’ in the Qur’ān: a study of Qur’ānic intra-textuality \nShafi Fazaluddin (SOAS) Conciliation and Conflict in the Meccan and Medinan Qur’an \nSimon Loynes (University of Edinburgh) The concept of divine sending down (tanzīl) in the Qur’an \nAndreas Vogl (Berlin Graduate School) Nakedness in the Qur’ān Commentary \n  \n\n Hadith and Law\n\nBelal Abu Alabbas (University of Oxford) Al-Bukhārī a Jurist \nUsman Ghani (American University of Sharjah) Ḥadīth usage in Ḥanafī Fiqh: A case study of al-Marghinānī’s al-Hidāya \nRahile Yilmaz (Marmara University) Same author and two different commentaries: Ibn ‘Abdul Barr and his commentaries of the Muwatta’ at-Tamhīd and Al-Istidhkār \nMostafa Movahedifar (University of Birmingham) New contemporary approaches to the isnād in Shīʿī scholarship on aḥādīth: the examples of Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (d. 1992)\, Mūsā al-Shubayrī al-Zanjānī (b. 1928) and Ahmad al-Madadī (b. 1951/1952) \n  \n\n Post-Revolutionary Iran\n\nArun Rasiah (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) The Madrasa and the Movement of Ideas \nBabak Rahimi (University of California San Diego) Techno-Muharram: The Mourning Soundscape and the Shia Public in Post-Revolutionary Iran  \nCarlos Mendez (University of Edinburgh) The Silent Threat to the Islamic Republic from Within \nNaser Ghobadzadeh (Australian Catholic University) Nested game of elections in Iran \n  \n\n Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Islamic History\n\nTarek Makhlouf (University of Melbourne) The Success of Andalusian Philological learning in the Mashriq \nMohamed Maslouh (University of Ghent) The Wanderers and the Eternal Traveler: The Employment of the al-Khidr’s narrative in the Sufi Apologetic Works During the Mamluk-Mongol Warfare (1258-1335 CE) \nMourad Laabdi (Carleton University) Ibn Khaldun on Law and Society: The Germ of a Social History of Islamic Law \nAlexander Khaleeli (University of Exeter) Re-evaluating the state of Twelver Shi’ism in pre-Safavid Iran – the case of Ibn al-Makki (k. 1384) and the Sarbadars \n  \n17:30 – 17:45 Short Break \n  \n17:45 – 19:15 Plenary  \nAlison Scott-Baumann (SOAS) and team\, ‘Re/presenting Islam on Campus\, contested identities and the cultures of higher education’ \n  \n19:30   Halal Dinner (for those in conference accommodation) \n  \nTuesday 16th April \n  \n09:00 – 10:30 Panel Session 4 \n  \n\n What is Sufism? – An exploration of Sufi studies and Sufism in the West\n\nChair: Saeko Yazaki (University of Glasgow) \nMakoto Sawai (Kyoto University) Sufi Studies in Gender Equality: Re-reading Ibn ʿArabī’s Anthropological Thought \nSaeko Yazaki (University of Glasgow) Understanding Sufism: Dances of Universal Peace UK and its Syncretic Approach \nMark Sedgwick (Aarhus University) Variety and Uniformity in the Multiple Dimensions of Western Sufism \n  \n\n Recalling Islamism: A Critical Muslim Studies approach\n\nChair: Sarah Marusek (University of Leeds) \nSheheen Kattiparambil (University of Leeds) Decolonizing the caliphate: Narrating the Mappila rebellion \nSümeyye Sakarya (University of Leeds) A relational approach to Islamism: From nation-state to Muslimistan \nAyşe Kotan (University of Leeds) John Dewey meets Ataturk: Educational reform of the New Republic \nSarah Marusek (University of Leeds) Palestine\, Islamism and the transatlantic Islamophobia network \n  \n\n The Qur’an and Its Interpretation II\n\nAbdud Dayyan Younus (University of Birmingham) The unique characteristics of Urdu tafasīr in comparison to other modern and classical Arabic tafasīr \nSohaib Saeed (University of Glasgow) The Mufassir as Translator: A Paradigm for Exegesis in Non-Arabic Languages \nHossein Godazgar (Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education) ‘Islamic pluralism’: Insights into Sunni and Shi’ite exegeses of the Qur’an with reference to (physician assisted) suicide \n  \n\n Islamic Jurisprudence in the Modern World\n\nMuhammad Almarakeby (University of Edinburgh) Ijtihād and Social Changes in the fatwās of Egypt’s 19th century ‘ulama \nRezart Beka (Georgetown University) The Jurisprudence of Reality (fiqh al-wāqi’) in Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī’s Thought \nAli-Reza Bhojani (University Of Nottingham & Al-Mahdi Institute) Uṣūlī Shī’ ī exegesis of 9:122- A potential Quranic ‘justification’ for collective ijtihād & consultative taqlīd? \nSaba Kareemi (University of Management and Technology) The Jurisprudence of Public Official Immunity in Pakistan: Competing Maxims\, Conflicting Norms\, and the Utility of Islamic Law \n  \n\n Salafism: Contested Boundaries\n\nDeniz Cifci (Independent Scholar) Construction of Militant Jihadi and Non-Militant Forms of Salafism: Ansar al-Islam and Abdullatif Salafi Groups in Kurdistan Region in Iraq as Case Studies \nIman Dawood  (London School of Economics and Political Science) Salafism without Salafis: Exploring the Wider Impact of Salafism in London \nAzhar  Majothi (University of Nottingham) The Three Fundamental Principles: A Global Salafi Primer? \nAbdelghani Mimouni (University of Manchester) Towards a Redefinition of Salafism \n  \n\n Islamic Religious Culture in the Modern World\n\nOriol Guni (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Images of Muslims in the late 19th-early 20th century travel writing about Albania and intersections with contemporary debates \nNaira Sahakyan (University of Amsterdam) Dialogue with Materialist: The Rise of the Soviet Atheism and the Daghestani Scholars of Islam \nSoheb Niazi (Freie Universitat\, Berlin) Social Stratification of Muslims at a Qasbah in Colonial India. Genealogy as Narrating the Past at Amroha \nJustin McGuinness (American University of Paris) Islam in pictures for the Moroccan kuttab: a descriptive analysis of an educational image sheet from Fès \n  \n10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea  \n  \n11:00 – 12:15 Plenary Maribel Fierro (CSIC Madrid) ‘Rulers as Authors in the Medieval Islamic West’  \n  \n12:15 – 12:45 De Gruyter Prize presentation \n  \n12:45 — 13:15 BRAIS AGM \n  \n13:15 – 14:15 Lunch \n  \n14:15 – 15:45 Panel Session 5 \n  \n\n Forms of Muslim Religiosity in the UK\n\nAyesha Khan (Cardiff University) ‘Spiritual’ or ‘Sufi’?: Ethnographic Reflections from Rumi’s Cave \nMohammad Amer Morgahi (Vrije Universiteit\, Amsterdam) Devotion\, sanctity and new forms of religiosity among the Barelvis in the UK \nSeán McLoughlin (University of Leeds) Islamic Soundscapes in a Translocal City: Co-Produced Research Among Muslims in Bradford \nRiyaz Timol (Cardiff University) Something Old\, Something New: The Changing World of British Imams \n  \n\n Islam across time and space: comparing temporalities within the Islamicate world\n\nChair: Jack Clift (SOAS) \nMariam Shehata (SOAS) The Arabic Sea Battle: al-Farābī & Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī on the problem of Future Contingents \nFlorence Shahabi (SOAS) “Now is the time for the revolution of Self:” Temporality in the psycho-social writings of Bahauddin Majruh \nJack Clift (SOAS) “History is a mirror:” Historical-fictional time in Naseem Hijazi’s Ākhirī Maʻrakah (The Last Battle\, 1953) \n  \n\n Contemporary Islamic Law and Ethics\n\nNazneen Asmal (University of Central Lancashire) The Sunni and Shia Perspectives on Surrogacy: A Comparative Analysis \nMansur Ali (Cardiff University) Our Bodies Belong to God. So what? \nNahid Khan (University of Birmingham) Adoption is not Prohibited in Islam\, it is Misunderstood \nMohamed Abdelsalam (Sciences Po) The Role of Islam in the Egyptian Legal System: An Analysis of the Council of State Judicial decisions in post-revolution Egypt \n  \n\n Late Ottoman History\n\nSada Payir (University of Oxford) Indulgence in Entertainment: Police Officers as Partners in Crime in Late Ottoman Istanbul \nAhmet Yusuf Yuksek (SUNY-Binghamton University) Sufis and Sufism in Istanbul in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Spatial Analysis \nBilal Gökkir (Istanbul University) Reflections of Eugenic Medical Theories in Jamal al-din al-Qasimi’s Exegesis of the Qur’an \nWilliam Ryle-Hodges (University of Cambridge) The Religious Dimension of State Educational Reform in 19th Century Khedival Egypt: Abduh on animating the soul by taming the ego and teaching the truth \n  \n\n Asceticism and Sufism\n\nArafat Abdur Razzaque (University of Cambridge) Ibn Abī l-Dunyā\, an Ascetic at the Abbasid Court? Ḥadīth as Adab and the Cultural Context of Early Islamic Piety \nKhairil Husaini Bin Jamil and Kozhithodi Salahudheen (International Islamic University Malaysia) Taḥbīb Theory as Neoplatonic Emanationism? al-Jīlānī’s Thought between Argumentum Ex Silentio and Ḥadīth Interpretive Tradition \nAbdulhakeem Alkhelaifi (Qatar University) Metaphysical Teleology: From Ibn Sina to Ibn Arabi \n  \n\n Islam and Politics in North and West Africa\n\nGuy Eyre (SOAS) Divine paths to politics: Islamist-Salafi political competition and the state in North Africa \nLenka Hrabalova (Palacky University) Moroccan Religious Export \nLaura Thompson (Harvard University) A Cart-Pusher and an ‘Alim: Historicizing Post-Arab-Spring Blasphemy Prosecutions in Tunisia \nMiguel Paradela López (Tecnológico de Antioquia) Assessing Islamic extremism expansion in Mali. The links between theocracy and minoritarian claims unraveled  \n  \n15:45 – 16:15 Coffee/Tea \n  \n16:15 – 17:45 Panel Session 6 \n  \n\n Modern Islamic Political Thought\n\nUsaama al-Azami (Markfield Institute of Higher Education) Scholars for Peace in a Gulf at War: The Contributions of Hamza Yusuf and ‘Abdullah b. Bayyah in the Crafting of Counter-revolutionary Islam \nYazid Said (Liverpool Hope University) Hallaq\, Said and Orientalism: Implications for political thought \nNadia Duvall (SOAS) The Doctrine of Jihad in Sayyid Qutb’s Thought \nAhmet Köroğlu (Istanbul University) Translating Islamism: Taking Sayyid Qutb\, Abu’l Ala Mawdudi and Ali Shariati to Turkey \n  \n\n Islam and Politics in the Middle East and Asia\n\nAlexander Weissenburger (Austrian Academy of Sciences) The concept of the Zaydi Imamate and its role in Yemen’s current crisis \nUmer Karim (University of Birmingham) The Political Rise of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) and Politics of Religious Rent Seeking \nCaglar Ezikoglu (Aberystwyth University) The Logic of Political Survival in Muslim Politics: The Case of AKP \nLucia Ardovini (The Swedish Institute of International Affairs) The Competition for Islamic Authority in post-2013 Egypt: Old Actors\, New Dynamics \n  \n\n Colonialism and the Muslim World\n\nUla Merie (University of Sheffield) Re-representing the Islamic architecture during the British Mandate in Iraq \nBesnik Sinani (Free University of Berlin) Late Wahhabi Orthodoxy and Orientalist Scholarship on Sufism \nNessim Znaien (Aix-Marseille University) Alcohol and the Muslim world during the era of French colonization \n  \n\n Ibn ‘Arabi’s Reception\n\nLeila Chamankhah (University of Dayton) Dialogue with the “Master”: Early Shīʿa Encounters with Akbarīan Mystics \nFakhruzzaman Faiz (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Is Ashraf Jahāngīr Simnānī in line with Ibn ‘Arabī ontology? \nJohannes Rosenbaum (University of Bamberg) A Sufi critique of Philosophy in the work of the 17th c. revivalist ‘Abd al-Haqq Dehlavi \n  \n\n Muslims in UK Higher Education\n\nHanan Fara (University of Birmingham) Qualitative research on how university experiences of Muslim students’ impact on the construction and presentation of their identities on campus \nMuhammed Tajri (Al-Mahdi Institute) Shī‘a Female University Experiences Shaping Religious Authority Conceptions \nAbida Malik (University of Nottingham) British Muslims in UK Higher Education: socio-political\, religious and policy considerations \nDavid Ring (Middlesex University) An ethnographic study of the experiences of Muslims studying nursing in London \n  \n\n Ibn Taymiyya: Theology and Ethics\n\nDaniel Lav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Aristotelian Imprint on Ibn Taymiyya’s Doctrine of Tawḥīd \nHugh Goddard (University of Edinburgh) Ibn Taimiyya and John Knox on the Limits of Obedience to the State \nAbdul-Rahman Mustafa (University of Edinburgh) Theology versus the Theologian: Reexamining Ibn Taymiyyah’s Critique of Shīʿism and Christianity \n\n\nJon Hoover (University of Nottingham) Ibn Taymiyya’s confession of Ash‘ari doctrine to procure release from prison
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/registration-deadline-for-british-association-for-islamic-studies-brais-2019-conference/
LOCATION:University of Nottingham\, Nottingham\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190413
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
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SUMMARY:Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
DESCRIPTION:In Muslim minority contexts\, particularly in the UK and Europe\, some of the prevalent discourses on religious-only Muslim marriages share an underlying assumption of a homogenous\, legally recognised and culturally streamlined form of Muslim marriages found in Muslim majority contexts. However\, this depiction does not represent the diverse and plural lived experiences of how Muslim marriages are entered into\, in societies where the majority of the population are Muslim and state codified Muslim family laws exist. Diversity arises on numerous fronts; from the Sunni/Shia doctrinal differentiations to particular cultural norms which impact on the development of Islamic jurisprudence around family law. Muslim majority states have all devised and developed their own particular forms of marriage laws with lesser and greater degrees of normative religious influences. Furthermore\, outside the law and its institutions\, in the lived realities of many women and men in these contexts\, concluding a marriage is organized and experienced in diverse ways. The result is a plurality of marital relationship norms in Muslim majority contexts\, which speak against the idea of a cohesive nature to Muslim marriages. Even if with the codification of family law and its concomitant bureaucratization\, there is a push towards homogenization\, there is simultaneously a great diversity of legal and social practices. \nThis conference seeks to uncover the plurality in norms and practices in Muslim majority countries\, with a central focus on the individual or couple and the way in which they enter into a marital relationship. These marriages may be formal or informal\, recognised by the state and simultaneously not recognised by the state (either fully or partially). A necessary element in some country contexts may be the evolving understanding of the nature and parameters of Muslim marriages and questions around legitimacy. \nClick here to see the program. \nClick here to register (free).
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/muslim-marriages-plurality-of-norms-and-practices/
LOCATION:University of Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190512
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20190414T173239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190414T173239Z
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SUMMARY:NYU Conference: Contact and Convergence
DESCRIPTION:“Contact and Convergence: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Islamic Studies” \nHow might different disciplines approach similar central questions? How does a well-established academic field integrate new technological and methodological approaches? And how might these new approaches encourage greater engagement with diverse scholarly voices and the public at large? \nPlease register here: https://isnyu2019.weebly.com/ \nMay 10th (Location TBD) – Open to All \n6:00-8:00 pm: Keynote: New Museological Approaches to Islam and Islamic Art \nInterest in the Islamic world and its art and culture is burgeoning\, as new museums and permanent galleries devoted to displaying it proliferate across the globe. At the same time that an unprecedented number of museums present “Islamic art\,” scholars within the field have questioned the coherence of the category of Islamic art or Islamic culture. The most challenging critiques have focused on the typical geography of art labeled Islamic\, its chronology\, and its relationship to religion. This panel brings together several curators and scholars who have worked on recent exhibits that address these questions in different ways\, at the Metropolitan Museum\, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan\, the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler galleries and the Brooklyn Museum.\n​Panelists: \n\nDr. Navina Haidar (Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator Department of Islamic Art\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY)\nDr. Hussein Rashid (Founder of Islamicate and Academic Advisor to the Children’s Museum of Manhattan Exhibit\, NY)\nDr. Simon Rettig\, Assistant Curator (Arts of the Islamic World\, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery\, Smithsonian Institution\, Washington DC)\nDr. Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım (Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art\, Brooklyn Museum\, NY)\n\nDiscussant: \n\nProf. Abigail Balbale (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies\, NYU)\n\n8:00-9:30 pm: Dinner Reception \nMay 11th (Ettinghausen Library in NYU’s Kevorkian Center) – Registration Required \n8:30-9:30 am: Light Breakfast \n9:30-11:00 am: Sectarianism in Interdisciplinary Perspective \nPublic discourse often casts sectarianism as one of the most pressing political problems of the Middle East and broader Islamic world\, as elsewhere. While recent critical scholarship has productively critiqued essentialist readings of sectarianism\, this panel asks what how scholars in different fields approached the question methodologically\, and how these differences shape our understanding of sects and sectarianism. As an interdisciplinary object of study\, how can we approach sectarianism without reproducing ‘methodological sectarianism’\, or reinforcing essentialism and exceptionalism? How can we productively make connections between the study of sectarianism and other theories or scholarly studies of difference such as race or gender? \nPanelists: \n\nProf. Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer (History & MEIS\, NYU)\nProf. Maya Mikdashi (Anthropology\, Rutgers)\nDr. Fanar Haddad (Middle East Institute\, National University of Singapore)\n\nDiscussant: \n\nArran Robert Walshe (PhD Student\, NYU)\n\n11:00-11:30 am: Coffee Break \n11:30-1:00 pm: Digital Humanities in Islamic Studies \nOver the past few decades\, Islamic Studies scholarship has been impacted by the incorporation of technological advances and tools. By using digital applications for visual imaging\, modeling\, mapping\, and text and data mining\, scholars are now able to analyze and reconstruct their corpus beyond the limitations of traditional methodologies. This panel will open a broad discussion about what new questions can be raised and addressed through these digital techniques. How do these new approaches challenge the traditional framing of different areas of Islamic Studies scholarship? When are these new approaches truly revolutionary\, enabling innovative analysis; and when are they merely evolutionary\, facilitating but not challenging the traditional methodologies? \nPanelists: \n\nDr. Martina Rugiadi (Associate Curator\, Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY)\nSharon Tai (Deputy Editor\, SHARIAsource at ILSP\, Harvard)\nProf. Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (History\, University of Pennsylvania)\n\nDiscussant:​ \n\nDr. Jared McCormick (DGS Near Eastern Studies\, NYU)\n\n1:00-1:10 pm: Break for Dhuhr \n1:10-2:00 pm: Lunch \n2:00-3:30 pm: Muslim Identity and Islamic Studies \nThis panel engages with Muslim academics whose work bridges the gap between the academic study of Islam and Islamic scholarship in the modern world. Rather than conceiving of these two domains as discrete and separate\, the panelists will discuss how their academic work is intimately related to their identity as Muslim scholars. The panel will center on the methodological concerns of the panelists and the way in which they leverage contemporary academic discourses—such as theology\, feminism\, theories of religion\, and identity—to both further Islamic Studies scholarship and serve the larger Muslim community. \nPanelists: \n\nProf. Sylvia Chan-Malik (American and Women and Gender Studies\, Rutgers)\nProf. Martin Nguyen (Religious Studies\, Fairfield University)\nProf. Zareena Grewal (American and Religious Studies\, Yale University)\n\n​Discussant:​ \n\nProf. Ismail Alatas (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies\, NYU)\n\n3:30 pm: Closing Remarks
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/nyu-conference-contact-and-convergence/
LOCATION:New York University\, New York\, NY
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,digital humanities,events in Islamic legal studies
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190512
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
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SUMMARY:NYU Conference: New Contact Zones in Islamic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Methodologies\, Technologies\, Epistemologies: New Contact Zones in Islamic Studies \nThis conference seeks to tackle questions on how might different disciplines approach the same vital social question: How does a well-established academic field integrate new technological and methodological approaches? And how might these new approaches encourage greater engagement with diverse scholarly voices and the public at large? \nThese questions pertain to Islamic Studies by working across a number of assumed boundaries in the field\, relating to discipline\, methodology\, and faith background. Each panel is built around a theme and body of scholarship that problematizes such boundaries\, including interdisciplinary approaches to Sectarianism; the impact of digital humanities in the field; and scholarship on Islam that speaks equally to faith communities and the secular academy. An inaugural keynote panel brings together scholars working at the intersection of the academy and museum curating. Collectively\, the panels thus highlight cutting edge work by a range of scholars who already take these assumed boundaries as problem spaces for productive scholarly engagement. In doing so\, the conference aims to encourage a future vision for Islamic Studies that is both more internally inclusive and more publicly-engaged. \nThe conference format will consist of four panels with 2-3 panelists each. Each panelist will present their work for 20-25 minutes\, followed by a moderated round table discussion. The list of panels are: \n\nDigital Humanities in Islamic Studies\nSectarianism in Interdisciplinary Perspective\n“Faith work” in the Islamic Studies classroom\nIslamic Studies Perspectives in Museum Work
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/nyu-conference-new-contact-zones-in-islamic-studies/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,tech
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T113500
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association: Islamic Law and Society in Contemporary and Hybrid Legal Contexts
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together a number of papers that examine the legal\, political\, and social dynamics surrounding the invocation or engagement of the Islamic legal tradition in the contemporary world. Papers explore contexts ranging from Iraqi Kurdistan\, to Jordan\, to England and the United States. \nSession Organizer\nSteven Boutcher\, UMass Amherst \nChair\nNurfadzilah Yahaya\, National University of Singapore \nDiscussant\nNurfadzilah Yahaya\, National University of Singapore \nPapers \nMen’s Speech Gone Awry: Husbands\, Jurists\, and Fatwas on Divorce in Iraqi Kurdistan\nJ. Andrew Bush\, New York University Abu Dhabi \nScholars have shown how highlighting the voices and experiences of women engaging shari’a (“Islamic law”) sheds crucial light on how shari’a constructs gender categories in different social and historical settings. This paper argues that more detailed attention to the specifically gendered ways that men address one another can further clarify the workings of gender and power in shari’a. Based on observations of hundreds of consultations conducted at a Fatwa Council in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) between 2014 and 2018\, my larger research project links microscopic attention to the details of men’s speech at the Fatwa Council to the wider context of legal pluralism in KRI stretching across shari’a\, federal civil codes and civil provisions local to the Kurdistan region. This paper focuses on the conversation between husbands and male jurists that occur when husbands have carelessly pronounced a divorce and seek to restore their marriage. It analyzes the appearance\, recognition\, and adjudication of moral shortcomings in men’s speech. In doing so\, it shows how distinctively gendered notions of dignity\, honor\, and authority intertwine in the effort to restore men’s authority through legal processes that sit in precarious but productive relation to secular civil courts. \nViolence Against Women in the Name of Honor: The Case of Jordan\nGhufran Alqahtani\, Washington College of Law-American University \nHonor crimes are forms of gendered violence that occur against women under the hand of the family\, in which the “family home” become a common place for violence and murder. It mainly involves a male relative that kills a female member within the family to protect a notion that is called “honor\,” or the protection of sharaf because of ird violation that is the responsibility of females only. “Purification of shame\,” “restoring dignity\,” “preserving family honor\,” all are used inside the courtrooms to justify such murder that takes the lives of almost twenty women annually in Jordan. This particular form of gender-based violence against women is the product of the existing laws within the Jordanian Penal Code that entitle and encourage any male the right to kill his female relative in front of their family in a defense of sharaf and receive a reduced punishment. Articles 340\, 98\, and 99 of the Jordanian Penal Code altogether reflect the failure of the legal system in Jordan in protecting women from honor crimes. Even when the law recently witnessed minor changes\, the male-based right to protect family honor through the use of lethal violence against women survived scrutiny. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the legal injustice that is directed against women in Jordan. Highlighting the influence of legal pluralism and patriarchy\, this study argues that this form of defense in its contemporary setting that is used solely to murder women is highly supported by tribal customs and religion making it an integral part of the modern legal system in Jordan. \nHuman Dignity and the Problem of a Universal Abolition of Slavery in Islamic Law\nHavva Guney-Rubenacker\, Harvard Law School \nIt has long been assumed that Islamic law tacitly permitted slavery. Mainstream Muslim jurists today continue to argue that slavery cannot be universally abolished in Islamic law\, but only temporarily suspended due to changing circumstances. A coherent reformist Islamic theory of abolition of slavery is yet to develop. By combining both an external examination of the genealogy of the classical Islamic theory of legitimization of slavery in its contemporary Greek/Roman world and also its internal examination based on primary Islamic legal sources\, namely the Qur’an and the Sunna (the actual practice of the Prophet)\, and the Qur’anic notion of inherent human dignity as discussed by classical Islamic jurist themselves\, this paper challenges\, for the first time\, the alleged Islamic legitimacy of slavery from its very roots. It also shows how the legal and moral dilemma around the question of the legitimacy of slavery faced by today’s Muslim jurists is similar to the one faced by American jurists around the landmark Supreme Court cases Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954) on the question of whether racial segregation in public schools is inherently unequal. This comparative analysis shows how seemingly different legal systems in fact experience similar core legal and moral challenges around major legal issues such as slavery\, discrimination and human dignity. \nForeign beliefs: Political discourse and the role of law in the exclusion of religious minorities in England\nCatherine Warrick\, Villanova University \nThe status of religious minorities in England has shifted over a span of centuries from formal discrimination and exclusion to legal equality today. This shift is not merely a function of social attitudes\, but of political decisions by the state; the law has been a prominent tool for defining\, enforcing\, and later remedying the exclusion of religious minorities. The civil disabilities of Catholics and Jews\, for example\, were rooted in the fear that these minorities were a source of risk to society through their presumed loyalty to foreign interests. Religious foreignness (of identity\, of belief\, of the locus of religious authority) was a bar to civil Englishness\, either in part or fully. The expansion of political equality and civil liberties protections gradually ended these legal disabilities and achieved the full citizenship of minorities\, at least as a matter of equality before the law. However\, concern over the “foreignness” of religious minorities is again highly visible in public discourse\, expressed as fears that Muslims in Britain are a danger to both national security and national identity. Both right-wing activists and mainstream media direct public attention to shari’a\, grooming gangs\, and forced marriage\, portraying them as dangers of Islam in the United Kingdom. This paper investigates the relationship between public discourse and law in three aspects. First\, I demonstrate that the current public discourse on Britain’s Muslim minority is strikingly similar to earlier debates about the nationality of Jews. Second\, I examine the extent to which current political discourse about Muslims is cast in terms of claims about the law and national identity. Finally I argue that this framing has identifiable effects on public opinion and on parliamentary and governmental action. This trend suggests that\, while religious liberty seems a settled question\, minority inclusion could still be eroded via claims about threats to national identity and security. \nThe Case for American Muslim Arbitration\nRabea Benhalim\, University of Wisconsin Law School \nThis Article will advocate for the creation of Muslim arbitral tribunals in the United States. These tribunals would better meet the needs of American Muslims\, who currently bring their religious disputes to informal forums that lack transparency. Particularly problematic\, these existing forums often apply legal precedent developed in majority-Muslim nations\, without taking into consideration the changed circumstances of Muslim living as minorities in the United States. These interpretations of Islamic law can have especially negative impacts on women. American Muslim arbitration tribunals offer the potential to correct these inadequacies. Furthermore\, a new arbitral system could better meet the needs of sophisticated parties\, like commercial entities\, by supplying arbitrators able to navigate the intricacies of both Islamic and American law. To be sure\, a new arbitral system would not be a perfect solution. Like other forms of religious arbitration\, and like commercial arbitration\, the new system would provide benefits\, but also create potential drawbacks. The benefits would include promoting freedom of contract and subject matter specialization and reducing the burden on civil courts. The potential drawbacks include imbalances of power between contracting parties\, adhesion contracts\, and disenfranchisement of vulnerable populations. Taking these benefits and concerns into consideration\, American Muslim arbitration needs to be structured with various internal safeguards to protect vulnerable populations and ensure the decision to arbitrate is voluntary\, especially in family law cases. The Article will makes one further claim: Muslim arbitration in the United States would provide a positive influence on the development of Islamic law. By moderating precedents developed in other\, more unequal cultural settings\, the new tribunals could aid the development of 21st century Islamic law.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-islamic-law-and-society-in-contemporary-and-hybrid-legal-contexts/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill\, 400 New Jersey Ave\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T115000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190530T123500
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20190519T233200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T233200Z
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association: Book Talk on "Gender\, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl"
DESCRIPTION:The book interrogates the claim that human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Revisiting human rights interventions on gender\, and on behalf of sexual and religious minorities\, the author exposes how such interventions have advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism\, and enabled a carceral politics rather than produced freedom for their constituencies. Focusing on campaigns for same sex marriage\, ending violence against women and the Islamic veil bans\, and how these emerge as forms of governance that operate through normative prescriptions\, the book will be of interest to the sociological community. The analysis lays bare how human rights emerge as a project of containment and unfreedom. The author argues that the futurity of human rights rests in transformative engagement with non-liberal pursuits of freedom. \nAuthor\nRatna Kapur\, Queen Mary University of London \nReaders\nBrenda Cossman\, Faculty of Law\, Univesity of Toronto\nBen Golder\, UNSW\nVanja Hamzić\, SOAS University of London\nVasuki Nesiah\, The Gallatin School\, New York University
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-book-talk-on-gender-alterity-and-human-rights-freedom-in-a-fishbowl/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill\, 400 New Jersey Ave\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190531T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190531T114500
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association: Mobilizing European Law Against Racialization and Exclusion
DESCRIPTION:This panel investigates how racialized groups mobilize for dignity inside and outside courts. Passalacqua analyzes the transformation of UK migrants’ dignity claims by courts and lays bare law’s limits as a dignity-restoring instrument. Farkas probes the conceptions of dignity by European and US actors in the Transnational Roma Rights Network arguing that the transnationality of the practice field mitigates towards client interests. Xenidis explores frame disputes in the context of the CJEU headscarf cases\, contrasting the academic understanding of Islamophobia as intersectional discrimination and litigants’ strategic reliance on religious discrimination claims. Lauro examines the evolution of UK anti-deportation campaigns from the 1970s on an demonstrates a focal shift from discrimination to dignity in the context of deradicalization \nSession Organizer\nRaphaële Xenidis\, European University Institute\, Law Department \nChair\nScott Cummings\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nDiscussant\nMoritz Baumgärtel\, Utrecht University \nPapers \nLitigating against Islamophobia in Europe: a 3D puzzle\nRaphaële Xenidis \, European University Institute\, Law Department \nDecades ago\, social science research demonstrated the pervasiveness of racialization processes targeting certain religious groups. From Balibar’s notion of ‘neo-racism’ to Said’s critique of ‘orientalism’\, culture played a crucial role in explaining how ‘othering’ processes operate\, construct differences and justify exclusion. Similarly to ‘the Jews’\, ‘the Muslims’ are subjected to such homogenizing external racial ascriptions\, which are a fundamental dimension of a phenomenon now widely called ‘Islamophobia’. One religious and cultural symbol in particular attracted renewed political\, but also legal\, attention over the past years. Targeting the hijab has in fact served as a profiling technique\, one way to pin down ‘the Muslim archetype’. In these politics of symbol-hunting\, women’s bodies have become – as often – a place of projection for societal contestations. Gender performance and gender politics therefore cannot be ignored in our legal dealings with this particular configuration of Islamophobia. It is therefore puzzling that litigants\, their lawyers and the Court of Justice of the EU altogether are willing to set this reality aside\, as they did in recent cases Achbita and Bougnaoui (2017). Why have these cases been dealt with as religious discrimination\, remaining silent about the race and gender dimensions? In this paper\, I explore frame disputes between an academic understanding of Islamophobia as intersectional discrimination\, and the litigants’ strategic reliance on religious discrimination claims\, a minority rights based approach. \nLost in translation? Migrants’ quest for dignity in the UK\nVirginia Passalacqua\, European University Institute \nMigration is a dignity-seeking journey’ but migrants are often denied dignity when they reach Europe. To deter migration\, several European governments have introduced policies that strip migrants of their dignity\, by confining them to the margins of society and exacerbating their vulnerable position. Virginia Passalacqua’s paper analyzes selected UK dignity-stripping measures on family migration and shows how migrants’ supporter groups challenged these measures using supranational litigation. Passalacqua demonstrates how\, even in cases where eventually the given national policy was declared unlawful\, the court’s reasoning failed to satisfactorily restore the dignity of the migrant; the judgment was based on evaluations such as the discriminatory character of the policy\, rather than its negative impact on the dignity of the person involved. By analyzing the process through which a migrant’s claim to dignity is reframed and transformed into a legal claim to dignity\, she shows that something important gets ‘lost in translation’\, laying bare the limits of the law as an instrument to restore dignity. \nCompeting conceptions of dignity in Roma rights activism\nLilla Farkas\, European University Institute \nLilla Farkas looks at the conceptions of dignity by European and US actors in the transnational Roma rights network. She shows that long preceding the dilemma the Charlottesville incident brought to light in the US\, Roma rights lawyers in Europe stood for the equality of a racialised minority in its quest to curtail hate speech. They did so in defiance of the US constituents of the Network\, who favored liberty over equality\, a collision Risa Goluboff argues is perhaps “not for the law to resolve”. Conversely\, when it came to forced evictions from segregated housing US actors urged nonaction for basic human dignity so as not to compromise a broader struggle for equality (integration). In lieu of Roma rights lawyers of Roma origin\, hard decisions on balancing US and European conceptions of dignity on the one hand and the interests of the socio-economically very different Roma ‘classes’ on the other fell to Roma activists. While the Roma activists at the regional level fortified by the international legal elite aligned their agenda with US legal liberalism\, domestic actors stuck to European conceptions of social justice. Revisiting Derrick Bell’s classic take of ‘serving two masters’ Farkas sheds a different light on the agency dilemma. In this case study the political liability of elite activists and lawyers is contrasted to their domestic counterparts. Ultimately\, domestic lawyers instrumentalised the fundamentally decentralised nature of the transnational practice field to counterbalance the demands of resourceful constituents\, trading off professional acknowledgement while fighting for dignity on their clients’ terms. \nFrom Race to Human Dignity? The Evolution Anti-Deportation Campaigns’ Political Claims in the UK from the 1970s to the present day\nDiletta Lauro\, University of Oxford\, Lincoln College \nIn her paper\, Diletta Lauro explores the ways in which various grassroots actors have contested the state use of deportation as a normalised policy solution to combat irregular migration in the United Kingdom. In particular\, Lauro is interested in examining anti-deportation activists’ political and normative arguments against deportation and the ways they change over time. Tracing an evolution of anti-deportation campaigning from the late 1970s to the present day\, Lauro demonstrates that there has been a shift in the arguments of these campaigns; from a focus on the discriminatory nature of immigration controls – and the ways in which both race and the legacy of colonialism intersect with dominant conceptualizations of the nation – during the 1970s and 1980s\, to an emphasis on migrants’ human dignity\, the procedural injustices related to the asylum process\, and the emergence of more localised forms belonging since the 1990s. While acknowledging that anti-deportation campaigning in the UK has always been embedded in tensions between the humanitarian and the political\, Lauro argues that this shift is part of a broader process de-radicalization of anti-deportation campaigning\, which in turn is rooted in the changing legal-institutional framework\, political opportunity structure and ideological context of the UK.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-mobilizing-european-law-against-racialization-and-exclusion/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill\, 400 New Jersey Ave\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190531T115000
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association: Book Talk on "Constituting Religion: Islam\, Liberal Rights\, and the Malaysian State"
DESCRIPTION:This “Author Meets Reader” panel brings together readers from a variety of career stages and disciplinary backgrounds (law\, religion\, and political science) to engage with Tamir Moustafa’s new book\, Constituting Religion: Islam\, Liberal Rights\, and the Malaysian State (Cambridge University Press\, 2018). Constituting Religion examines how dual constitutional commitments to religion and liberal rights invite litigation and feed the construction of a “rights-versus-rites binary” in law\, politics\, and the popular imagination. The book theorizes the “judicialization of religion” and examines the radiating effects of law and courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. \nAuthor\nTamir Moustafa\, Simon Fraser University \nChair\nMark Fathi Massoud\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nReaders\nMelissa Crouch\, University of New South Wales\nMichael McCann\, University of Washington\nMona Oraby\, Amherst College\nWinnifred Sullivan\, Indiana University Bloomington
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-book-talk-on-constituting-religion-islam-liberal-rights-and-the-malaysian-state/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T164500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T183000
DTSTAMP:20260410T095732
CREATED:20190520T010814Z
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association: Gender and Judging in Muslim Courts
DESCRIPTION:The international research collaboration deals with aspects of gender and judging in Muslim courts in the context of the Middle East and South (East) Asia. The issues addressed are: 1) the gendered construction of the judiciary\, and 2) gender aspects of judging in Muslim courts. Do male and female judges on state courts and religious courts (re)produce or challenge gender hierarchy in their dispensation of justice? In elaboration of this point\, which sources are used to underpin gender norms (legislation\, precedent\, Islamic jurisprudence\, principles of justice\, etc.)? \nSession Organizer\nMonika Lindbekk\, University of Oslo \nChair\nMonika Lindbekk\, University of Oslo \nDiscussant\nMonika Lindbekk\, University of Oslo \nPapers \nGender and the Judiciary in Africa: A Perspective from Nigeria\nEnibokun Uzebu\, University of Benin \nWithin the last four decades or so\, a wealth of scholarship on women in the judiciary has emerged. While most of these contributions concern the issues and experiences of women judges in most countries of the Western world\, it was not until recently that women judges in Africa began to engage the attention of scholars. Women are being appointed in record numbers as magistrates\, judges and justices across Africa\, this phenomenon is yet to fully attract the intellectual engagement of historians on Africa. Although\, Nigeria was the first in Africa to appoint a woman to the judiciary in 1942\, little attention has been paid to entrance of women into the judiciary in Nigeria in these emerging scholarships on women judges in Africa. This paper contributes to the growing literature on women in the judiciary in Africa. Focusing on Nigeria\, the first African country to elevate a woman to a superior court as a High Court judge in 1969\, it historicised the entrance of women into the judiciary in the largest black nation in Africa. Drawing on interviews with judges\, lawyers and court registrars as well as government gazettes and archival documents from the High Court archives in purposively selected states in Nigeria\, it analyses the effects of the selection and appointment processes of judicial appointments on women’s representation and access to courts as judges. \nWomen and Divorce for Sexual Dissatisfaction within Indonesian Religious Courts\nAyang Utriza Yakin\, Catholic University of Louvain \nThe paper will delineate the ‘new and current’ trend and cause of an increasing number of women who have been petitioning for divorce on the ground of unsatisfactory sexual relationship. A dissatisfactory sex life leads to trivial irritation\, then quarrels between married couples that culminate in divorce. I attempt to answer the following questions: what are the leading causes for filing a divorce on the ground of sexual dissatisfaction? How do judges adjudicate the issue of divorce on the cause of a lack of sexual enjoyment? How do the courts deal with this type of issue? What particular point of law is at issue? What formal (national law) and informal legal (fiqh\, tradition\, local norms\, foreign legislation\, etc.) sources they referred to? How do judges identify the rulings to resolve the uncertainty or fill the gap when law is silent or uncertain? And to what extent is sexual dissatisfaction an indicator for irreconcilable discord or a broken marriage? Is there any difference when male or female judges adjudicate the case? To answer these questions\, I follow a praxiological approach\, which suggests “to proceed to the re-specification of the study of the law by observing\, in context\, how real people apply\, in the exercise of their profession or their activities\, to establish facts\, to implement rules\, to refer facts to rules\, in the routine course of their work or\, in the less ordinary way\, of their encounter with justice” (Dupret\, 2010\, 334). The paper will demonstrate two things: judge’s relation to rule (how judges interpret and interplay the rule) and judge’s reference management (how judges fill the gap when law is silence). \nAdjudicating Islamic Family Law in Egypt: Continuity and Rupture\nMonika Lindbekk\, University of Oslo \nRelying on ethnographic fieldwork\, the paper investigates adjudication of Muslim family Law by five Cairenese family courts during the period 2008-2015\, a critical juncture in modern Egyptian history. Egypt is an interesting case in point worth dwelling on since it illustrates the complexity of normative pluralism in contemporary Muslim family law. Family courts are important sites for the cultivation of religious subjectivities by promoting definitions of family\, marriage\, and gender which differs from the discourses elaborated in the manuals of fiqh. Here\, judicial discourse is in dialogue and interaction with ideas developed by 19th century Muslim reformists\, as well as global discourse promoting the conjugal family. While the family codes and their implementation differ in important respects from fiqh\, it is also important to point out that there were important continuities with traditional Islamic jurisprudence. The paper explores how judges and other court personnel construct idealized notions of family\, marriage\, and gender relations by drawing upon sources as diverse as legislation\, custom\, Quran\, hadiths\, uncodified fiqh in a way that is sensitive to context. \nIs Palestine Ready for a New Gender-Balanced Family Law?\nMutaz M. Qafisheh\, Hebron University College of Law and Political Science \nThe applicable family laws in the West Bank and Gaza are chiefly derived from millennia-old sacred sources. In the last few decades\, the Palestinian society has undergone social and economic transformations that affected family construct and the relationship between women and men. Women became more independent. The level of education has dramatically increased. Female engagement in the workforce is on the rise. Family laws\, however\, remain intact. Women largely continue to be subordinate to men: early and forced marriages of girls continued\, polygamy legitimized\, inheritance and divorce rules favor brothers and husbands\, respectively. While the accession of Palestine to CEDAW on 1 April 2014\, without reservations\, can be considered as a breakthrough towards gender equality in general\, certain indications show that the country is still far from achieving full or even blanched inter-sex relationships. The Palestinian Constitutional Court\, for example\, ruled on 12 March 2018 that CEDAW\, among other treaties\, should be implemented “without contradiction with the cultural and religious principles of the Palestinian society”. The president of the Court explained on 2 May 2018 that this decision constitutes a reservation that specifically targets CEDAW provisions that conflict with family law. Drawing on the writer’s earlier studies and taking into account the recent debates\, particularly the submission of Palestine’s report to CEDAW Committee and the Committee’s concluding observation on that report; the paper explores the prospects of reforming the family laws in Palestine in light of CEDAW and the legal and social challenges thereof. The paper will go beyond the formal discussions and try to analyze opportunities and propose modalities for family law reform. It underlines obstacles that might hinder reform potentials and suggest ways for mitigation.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-gender-and-judging-in-muslim-courts/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill\, 400 New Jersey Ave\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T114500
DTSTAMP:20260410T095733
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association: Courts\, Bureaucracy and Politics in Eastern Europe\, Eurasia\, and Turkey
DESCRIPTION:This panel explores the changing nature of the judiciary and civil service bureaucracy in Eastern Europe\, Eurasia\, and Turkey in the face of political change\, both historic and contemporary. Papers focus on constitutional courts in Hungary and Slovakia\, the politicization of judges and accountability mechanisms for misconduct\, the influence of Islamist groups and informal networks on the Turkish judiciary\, and the reform of Poland’s civil service bureaucracy after the fall of Communism. \nSession Organizer\nMelissa King\, UMass \nChair\nOlga Semukhina\, Tarleton State University \nDiscussant\nMihaela Serban\, Ramapo College of New Jersey \nPapers \nTransformation of the Judiciary in Turkey: The Role of Islamic Groups and Informal Networks\nAbdullah Erdem Demirtaş\, Bogazici University \nMy paper focuses on Turkish Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors to understand the recent judicial transformation in Turkey. Hegemonic preservation thesis of Ran Hirschl (2000) has long been employed to understand the emergence of Turkish judiciary (Belge 2006; Özbudun\, 2006; Shambayati 2008; Shambayati&Kirdiş 2009). It posits that Turkish high judiciary was designed to preserve the hegemony of traditional secular elite in state institutions after the transition to democracy. Starting from this premise\, my paper aims to explain how the secular hegemony has been eradicated and replaced by the populist-Islamist alliance of the Justice and Development Party and Islamic networks in Turkey. On the other hand\, the literature on judicial independence and court packing generally focuses on formal arrangements such as legislative acts\, constitutional referendums or direct government interventions. However\, the Turkish case illustrates that informal networks could be employed\, together with formal arrangements\, for packing courts and capturing judicial power. Finally\, I conclude that the transformation of Turkish judiciary facilitated the transition of Turkey from a defective democracy to a competitive authoritarian regime. Turkey’s experience with autocratic legalism sheds light on the trajectory of many nascent democracies in the face of rising tide of authoritarian populism. My research is based on interviews with representatives of judge associations\, analysis of constitutional amendments and systematic newspaper scan of new regarding Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors. \nGuarding democracy depends on its understanding: Constitutional courts in Hungary and Slovakia and (anti-)democratic political change\nMax Steuer\, Comenius University in Bratislava \nSeveral public law scholars believe in the capacity of constitutional courts (CCs) to protect liberal constitutional values. In contrast\, Political Science\, especially in its behaviorist strand\, tends to highlight the dominance of ideological or material considerations that may at times result in CCs acting against democracy. This debate has gained relevance with the resurgence of authoritarian trends in several member states of the European Union. Building on new institutionalist theorizing that\, bridging Law and Political Science\, emphasizes the significance of ideas for triggering political change\, this paper aims to advance our knowledge about the factors affecting CCs’ capacity to protect democracy. It argues that the understanding of democracy by the CCs is one prerequisite for their capacity to exert influence on the political regime and demonstrates this argument by examining the understandings of democracy in the case law of the CCs in Slovakia and Hungary that share similar developmental trajectories. The qualitative analysis paying attention to changes over time and majority as well as separate opinions uncovers how\, contrary to CCs perceived as ‘countermajoritarian’ institutions\, restrictive understandings of democracy characterized notably by separation between the rule of the people from other constitutional values\, such as the rule of law or human dignity\, prevailed at both CCs. Due to this separation\, their potential to act as guardians of democracy has got diminished. These findings emphasize the need to look at CCs’ own ideas about fundamental constitutional principles as prerequisites of their capacity to trigger political change. \nWho judges the judges?\nStefanie Lemke\, Oxford University / Council of Europe (Programme Office Turkey) / European Commission \nIn this proposal\, I analyse the increasing politicisation of judicial authorities in Europe\, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and Central Asia\, and the lack of credible and transparent monitoring mechanisms to hold individual judges to account for severe misconduct at European and international levels – a topic that seems to have received only little scholarly attention. Drawing from various case studies\, I look at the growing number of judicial authorities in countries\, such as Azerbaijan\, Hungary\, the Russian Federation and Ukraine\, and the way they use their powers to punish activists for their human rights work through political motivated investigations\, charges and convictions. Although the international community criticized these countries for their actions; monitoring or audit procedures to impose sanctions on individual judges who do not face any disciplinary or criminal consequences for their wrongdoings in their home countries do currently not exist. In my proposal\, I argue that judicial authorities however are bound by international professional integrity standards to comply with human rights standards including ensuring every individual’s right to a fair trial; furthermore\, that the Council of Europe and other key stakeholders have a promising but yet underutilised potential to address such judicial violations. \nPolitics and Bureaucracy: Civil Service Reform in Poland in New Institutional Perspective\nKaja Gadowska\, Jagiellonian University \nThe civil service is an important element of the public administration system and has a major impact on the state’s manner of functioning. The civil service in Poland was created with the intention to ensure that the public administration performed its duties in a professional and impartial manner\, unhindered by political interests. The aim of the paper is to analyse the process of creating the civil service in Poland after 1989\, and to show how the division between the political and administrative spheres was formed from the begin¬ning of the transformation and under the governments of succeeding political groups\, and the extent to which the actual relations between politics and public administration reflect the formal regulations contained in successive civil service acts. The paper concentrates in particular on personnel policy with regard to senior civil service positions\, because these appointments are connected with assuming control of decision making processes and human resources policy in administrative offices. Various complementary qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the research. Multidimensional analysis of the data leads to the conclusion that political parties in Poland strive to limit the autonomy of the government administration and to subordinate it to their interests. The legislation in the area of civil service has been largely subjugated to the political interest of the moment\, and not to the long-term interest of the state. The use of the neo-institutional perspective allowed to identify the reasons behind the adoption of specific legal measures and to show their actual effects.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-courts-bureaucracy-and-politics-in-eastern-europe-eurasia-and-turkey/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill\, 400 New Jersey Ave\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks
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SUMMARY:Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages
DESCRIPTION:This international workshop is part of the ERC-funded research project “Problematizing ‘Muslim Marriages’: Ambiguities and Contestations.” \nWith “multiple materialities” we revisit and bring together two fields of anthropological research. On the one hand\, we engage with a research tradition that investigates the conclusion of marriages as part of processes of production and reproduction. On the other hand\, we include how artifacts function as the tangible materialization of concepts\, values\, ethics\, aesthetics\, desires and aspirations. In other words\, we address both practices people engage in and the work things do. The focus of this workshop is on three enactments of materiality: the provider (nafaqa; and inheritance\, mirath)\, the dower (mahr) and marriage festivities (haflat). \nClick here for the program. \nThere is no fee and all are welcome to attend\, but you need to register at multiplematerialities@gmail.com.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/multiple-materialities-of-muslim-marriages/
LOCATION:University of Amsterdam\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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