Ozkan Karabulut (PhD Candidate, HMES) will join us to share a chapter titled “Scripturalization of the Alevi Mystical Poetry” on November 3rd. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer for more info and to RSVP. The Middle East Beyond Borders (MEBB) workshop aims …
From the organizers: Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO’25) will take place November 5–7, 2025, at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. EAAMO’25 highlights research at the intersection of algorithms, optimization, mechanism design, social sciences, and humanistic studies …
From the organizer: “Law Between Self and Society: Collective Duties in Islamic Law—Past, Present, and Future” Mohannad and Rana Malas Lecture in Islamic Legal Studies Presented by Professor Adnan A. Zulfiqar Wed, Nov 5, 2025 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST UC Irvine Law Library’s California Room 501 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, …
TUE 11 NOV 2025 | 12.30-1.30p US EST | Zoom Islamic Law Speaker Series :: Youssef Belal (United Nations) “Thinking the World with Islamic Knowledges” Youssef Belal (United Nations) will present “Thinking the World with Islamic Knowledges” from his book titled The Life of Shari’a: A Comparative Anthropology of Law (University of California Press, 2025). Is there a way to think …
Cem Turkoz (PhD Candidate, NELC) will join us to share a chapter titled “Ottoman Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Context: The Evolution of the Canon” on November 17th. Efe Balıkçıoğlu (Associate, CMES) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer for more info …
From the organizers: We’re excited to return to New Orleans! Join us for the 2026 AALS Annual Meeting, taking place in person from Tuesday, January 6 to Friday, January 9, 2026, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside and Loews New Orleans Hotel. We look forward to the energy and connection that come from gathering our …
From the American Society for Legal History: Please join us for the next Making Connections: New Works in Legal History series event on Wednesday, January 21, 6-7pm Central Time. Omar Youssef Cheta will discuss his book, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Nurfadzilah Yahaya. About …
God’s Law, Man’s Rule: Debating Women’s Right to Health from Sacred Texts to the Taliban In this virtual talk, Lutforahman Saeed (Visiting Scholar and Islamic Law Lecturer, Birgham Young University Law School, Provo) will discuss women’s right to healthcare in Islamic law, outlining its foundations in the Qur’an, the Prophet’s Sunnah, and the core objectives …
ALWALEED BIN TALAL RESEARCH METHODS WORKSHOP Manuscripts to Megabytes: Evolving Editorial Practices and Challenges in Arabic Manuscripts from the Premodern to the Digital Age SABINE SCHMIDTKE Institute for Advanced Study, …
What counts as proof in an Islamic court? How does a judge rule between competing claims to truth? How does technological advancement impact notions of evidence? How can our understanding …
