Hadith, the first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and deeds, is one of the two major sources for the Muslims apart from the Qur’an. This panel will present two analyses of hadith legacy. Recep Senturk, the first panelist, is going to analyze the Hadith transmission network from a sociological perspective as a chain of …
The Society for Islamic Legal Studies holds a conference on Islamic law every three years. The 2021 conference has been postponed to 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will take place at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. As the date nears, the Call for Papers and …
On Saturday the 28th of May, the workshop 'Islamic Perspectives: on a posthuman future' will be held at the Court Room, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen. The workshop will include a submission by PIL fellow Yusuf Celik titled "The Hermeneutics of Posthuman Futurity for Islamic Thinking: Theological and Legal Implications."
The Conference on Kurdish Family Law is organized by Shéhérazade Elyazidi (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) and Sebastian Maisel (University of Leipzig). The research conference will be held at the Harnack House in Berlin from 2 – 4 June 2022. The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law hosts and provides …
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 …
