Apply now for the fourth LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim world, which will take place from Tuesday 23 August until Friday 2 September 2022 in Leiden. The deadline for applications is Monday 27 June 2022. See here for application details.
From the organizers: CFP: Legal Histories of Empire Posted: 12 May 2021 05:17 AM PDT Third Legal Histories of Empire Conference Beyond the Pale: Legal Histories on the Edges of Empires Maynooth University, 29 June-1 July 2022 Empires. Plural. Across time and across the globe, interconnected, mutually … Continue reading Call for Papers: Legal Histories …
The central sources of religious doctrine and law in Islam are the Qurʾān and the hadith. Hadith is, by volume, the far greater of these two sources. While there has been an increasing production of sophisticated studies on Sunni hadith traditions, the study of Shiʿi hadith requires far greater attention than it has hitherto received. …
All abstracts can be found here (pdf). The conference program is also available as pdf. If you are interested in attending, please register by writing an e-mail with your name and affiliation to [email protected]. Please note that this is an in-person conference only. For more details, click here.
The Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies. We seek candidates specializing in pre-modern Islam (7th–15th centuries), with a preference for the early period. Regional focus and disciplinary approach are open. A PhD is required at the time of appointment. It is expected …
From the organizers: Recent scholarship on various forms of dependency has demonstrated that a straightforward freedom/slavery binary does not help to account for how slavery operates in different historical and social contexts. In this workshop, we aim to contribute to discussions on the necessity of transcending this binary, focusing in particular on legal sources from …
From the organizers: Recent scholarship on various forms of dependency has demonstrated that a straightforward freedom/slavery binary does not help to account for how slavery operates in different historical and social contexts. In this workshop, we aim to contribute to discussions on the necessity of transcending this binary, focusing in particular on legal sources from …
The 57th MESA annual meeting will be held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal from November 2-5. We will host a robust conference with over 350 sessions, plus several special events. The online searchable program is available now. A preliminary program in PDF format will be available later in August. Please see MESA’s website for …
This is a hybrid event hosted by the Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium. Professor Intisar Rabb (Harvard University) will present her research titled “Legal Canons as Precedent: The Contested Case of Bughaybigha, 661-883.” The event will take place at Princeton University, 1879 Hall, Room 137. Those wishing to attend via Zoom can register here.
Islamic Law and Constitutionalism (Thursday, January 4th, 2024 – 8am to 9:40am) Presenters: Marzieh Tofighi Darian (Princeton University), “Abusive Islamic Judicial Review” Safa Ben Saad (Université de Sherbrooke), “Islamic constitutionalism: a stillborn model” Bahman Khodadadi (Yale Law School), “Judge vs. Legislator in Islamic Constitutionalism: A Case Study of Iran” Said Kaymakci (Catholic University): “Searching for a …
