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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170907T160000
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SUMMARY:LECTURE  ::  The Dilemma of Islamic Constitutionalism
DESCRIPTION:Intisar Rabb\, Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Faculty Director\, SHARIAsource.\nOrganized as a Part of the Middle East Seminar by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/lecture-the-dilemma-of-islamic-constitutionalism/
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T130000
DTSTAMP:20170921T202855Z
CREATED:20170921T202855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T202855Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: Family Law Reform in Pakistan: Recent Opinions (Fatwās) Favoring Women-Initiated Divorce
DESCRIPTION:Mubasher Hussain\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nMubasher Hussain will discuss scholar-jurists’ views on the options for marriage dissolution available to Muslim women in Pakistan. This talk will explore the arguments in favor of women-initiated divorce\, as articulated in several recent leading advisory opinions (fatwās) from certain textualist jurists in Pakistan.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-family-law-reform-in-pakistan-recent-opinions-fatwas-favoring-women-initiated-divorce/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170927T133000
DTSTAMP:20170921T203128Z
CREATED:20170921T203128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T203128Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK PANEL :: Law\, Religion\, and Health in the United States (Cambridge 2017)
DESCRIPTION:Editors: Holly Lynch\, I. Glenn Cohen\, & Elizabeth Sepper\nModerator: Intisar Rabb \nPanelists: Glenn Cohen\, Liz Sepper\, and Diane Moore.   \nA panel of scholars\, will discuss a recently published book on the intersection of law\, religion\, and health. Sponsored by the HLS Library.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/book-panel-law-religion-and-health-in-the-united-states-cambridge-2017/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School Library\, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T180000
DTSTAMP:20170926T140923Z
CREATED:20170926T140923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T140923Z
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SUMMARY:LECTURE :: Conquest and Conversion in Medieval Muslim Sicily
DESCRIPTION:Alex Metcalfe\, Senior Lecturer\, Department of History\, Lancaster University\, UK\nDr. Metcalfe will discuss part of his research on the Islamic world in the Mediterranean basin. Presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/lecture-conquest-and-conversion-in-medieval-muslim-sicily/
LOCATION:CMES\, Room 102\, 38 Kirkland Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171001T170000
DTSTAMP:20170926T190039Z
CREATED:20170926T190039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T190039Z
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SUMMARY:Islamic Legal Theories in the Late Post-Classical Period
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-legal-theories-in-the-late-post-classical-period/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley\, Barrows Hall\, Room 254\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T130000
DTSTAMP:20170926T141050Z
CREATED:20170926T141050Z
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SUMMARY:LUNCH DISCUSSION :: Feminist Voices in Islam: Rethinking Patriarchal Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Ziba Mir-Hosseini\, Professor of Law\, NYU Law School\nPound Hall 100\, Harvard Law School\nZiba Mir-Hosseini\, a leading scholar of Islamic feminism\, will discuss the emerging reformist and feminist voices in Islam and their potential in challenging the long-established classical interpretations of Shari’a and rethinking their underlying patriarchal ethical values and norms\, with a particular emphasis on the pioneering work of Musawah\, a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/lunch-discussion-feminist-voices-in-islam-rethinking-patriarchal-ethics/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T133000
DTSTAMP:20170921T203637Z
CREATED:20170921T203637Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK PANEL :: The Futility of Law and Development (Oxford 2016)
DESCRIPTION:Author: Jed Kroncke\, FG Direito\, Brazil / Emory\nModerator: William Alford \nPanelists: David Armitage\, Intisar Rabb\, Hu Xiaoqian   \nA panel of scholars will discuss Jed Kroncke’s recent book on law and development\, with its implications for Chinese law\, Islamic law\, and global legal history. Sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/book-panel-the-futility-of-law-and-development-oxford-2016/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School Library\, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T180000
DTSTAMP:20171002T152234Z
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SUMMARY:Islamic Law and its Implementation in Asia and The Middle-East
DESCRIPTION:The conference will focus on the topic of Islamic law and the implementation of Islamic law in Asia and the Middle East. \nConference Themes\n\nIslamic Law and Freedom of Religion or Belief\nConstitutionalism And Human Rights in Arab & Muslim World\nWomen’s Rights and Modern Muslim Practices\nIslamic Law: International Terrorism\, Radicalisation and Religious Extremism\nFinance and Succession in Islamic Law\n\nSpeakers\n\nSir Michael Wood\, KCMG\, Member of the UN International Law Commission.\nDr Muhammed Shabir Korotana \,Brunel University\nDr Ahmed Shaheed\, Essex University\, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief.\nProfessor Surya Subedi OBE\, Leeds University\, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia.\nProfessor Shaheen Saradar Ali\, Warwick University\, former Vice-Chair UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions.\nProfessor Mashood A Baderin\, SOAS\, former UN Independent Expert on Situation of human rights in Sudan.\nProfessor Robert Gleave\, Exeter University Professor of Arabic Studies.\nDr. iur. Damos Dumoli Agusman\, Secretary of Directorate General Legal Affairs\, Indonesia.\nProfessor Umut Turksen\, Coventry University
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-law-and-its-implementation-in-asia-and-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:British Institute of International and Comparative Law\, Charles Clore House\, 17 Russell Square\, London\, WC1B 5JP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171016T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171016T170000
DTSTAMP:20170926T181705Z
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SUMMARY:Business History Seminar: Legal Change and Business Enterprise in the Middle East\, 1850-Present
DESCRIPTION:Seven Agir\, Middle East Technical University\, Turkey\, will present and discuss his work as part of Harvard Business School’s Business History Seminar at the Chao Center.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/business-history-seminar-legal-change-and-business-enterprise-in-the-middle-east-1850-present/
LOCATION:Chao Center\, Elaine Conference Room 300\, Harvard Business School
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T130000
DTSTAMP:20170921T205358Z
CREATED:20170921T205358Z
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UID:10000844-1508500800-1508504400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: Mapping Islam in Constitutions
DESCRIPTION:Dawood Ahmed\, SJD Candidate\, University of Chicago\nDawood Ahmed will discuss his work on comparative Islamic constitutionalism.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-mapping-islam-in-constitutions/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T130000
DTSTAMP:20170921T205523Z
CREATED:20170921T205523Z
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UID:10000846-1508760000-1508763600@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT
DESCRIPTION:Ahmed El Shamsy\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nThe publication of al-Shāfiʿī’s (d. 204/820) multivolume magnum opus\, al-Umm\, in 1903-7 opened a window into early Islamic legal thought and provided the basis for all subsequent historiography of Islamic law. However\, the work’s publication was anything but inevitable: though it is today considered a seminal text\, in the late nineteenth century the Umm\, like the writings of most other early jurists\, languished in obscurity. Examining how and why the Umm was published thus offers surprising insights into the state of Islamic legal literature in the early twentieth century and its relationship to its long history. 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-resurrecting-the-ancient-jurists-in-print/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T170000
DTSTAMP:20171030T152213Z
CREATED:20171030T152213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T152213Z
UID:10000910-1508772600-1508778000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel on Optical Character Recognition
DESCRIPTION:Today’s scholars expect Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of texts in library collections.   Despite expectations that all texts are equally discoverable\, we know that countless handwritten manuscripts and documents in non-Roman fonts have neither been OCR’ed nor transcribed.   Three esteemed Harvard colleagues will discuss OCR projects that promise to open up vast quantities of knowledge to digital researchers. \n\nSharon Tai\, Deputy Editor at SHARIAsource will talk about Arabic OCR.\nDonald Sturgeon\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies\, will tell us about his work with Chinese texts.\nAmy Benson\, Librarian/Archivist for Digital Projects at Schlesinger Library\, will share how they aim to make handwriting searchable.\n\nJoin us for what is sure to be an informative discussion as our panelists share both the successes and challenges of their work. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/panel-on-optical-character-recognition/
LOCATION:Lamont Forum Room\, Harvard University
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T103000
DTSTAMP:20171030T151940Z
CREATED:20171030T151940Z
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SUMMARY:HLS Bicentennial Panel: God on Mass Ave.
DESCRIPTION:Apart from the constant of student prayer before exams\, the study of religion and law has changed and evolved over the years at the law school. On one hand\, faculty and alumni on the courts have long engaged the topic of church and state in U.S. constitutional law\, making important contributions to doctrine and practice. On the other\, faculty have delved deeply into world religions and their legal traditions\, especially those of Islam\, Christianity\, and Hinduism\, as well as Judaism\, the ancestral (and sometimes vestigial) faith of many faculty in the second half of the 20th century. This panel will explore both sides of this engagement with religion and law and provide insight into divine and domestic law at HLS\, then and now. \nSpeakers: \nNoah Feldman\, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \nIntisar Rabb\, Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \nCharles Donahue\, Paul A. Freund Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/hls-bicentennial-panel-god-on-mass-ave/
LOCATION:Wasserstein 2009\, Wasserstein\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T160000
DTSTAMP:20171030T152732Z
CREATED:20171030T152732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T152732Z
UID:10000912-1509199200-1509206400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting: From Bureaucracy to Jihad: Islamic Law in the Colonial Era
DESCRIPTION:Chair & Commentator: Intisar Rabb\, Harvard University \nMichael O’Sullivan\, UCLA\nThe “Muslim Bank” in a Late Imperial Age\, 1908–1925 \nAri Schriber\, Harvard University (schriber@g.harvard.edu)\nThe Transformation of the Qadi in Protectorate Morocco \nAdnan Zulfiqar\, Rutgers Law School (adnan.zulfiqar@rutgers.edu)\nViolent Necessity: Enacting Jihad in the Colonial Period
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/panel-at-the-american-society-for-legal-history-annual-meeting-from-bureaucracy-to-jihad-islamic-law-in-the-colonial-era/
LOCATION:Red Rock Casino Resort Spa\, Las Vegas\, Nevada
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T130000
DTSTAMP:20170921T205652Z
CREATED:20170921T205652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205652Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: THE M WORD: LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF MUSLIM IDENTITY IN THE U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Seval Yildirim\, Visiting Researcher\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nProfessor Yildirim will discuss her work-in-progress exploring the legal construction of Muslim identity through a study of U.S. court cases dating back to the 19th century. The paper identifies three distinct typologies of how courts have defined Muslim identity and the broader political and normative implications of legal construction of minority identities in the United States.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-the-m-word-legal-constructions-of-muslim-identity-in-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T130000
DTSTAMP:20171108T155933Z
CREATED:20171108T155933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T155933Z
UID:10000921-1510833600-1510837200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A History Without Gaps: Legal Maxims and the Evolution of Islamic Law
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mariam Sheibani\, PhD Candidate\, University of Chicago \nMariam Sheibani surveys the terminological and conceptual evolution of maxims in Shāfiʿī legal literature from the founding of the school in the ninth century to the emergence of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. Examining this evolution not only provides a history of maxims without gaps\, but it also offers unexpected insights about the significant role of maxims in negotiating jurists’ competing visions of the law. \nMediterranean lunch will be provided. \nRSVP by emailing shariasource@law.harvard.edu
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-history-without-gaps-legal-maxims-and-the-evolution-of-islamic-law/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T130000
DTSTAMP:20171114T165129Z
CREATED:20171114T165129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T165129Z
UID:10000927-1511784000-1511787600@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Tai\, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi\, former MIT Media Lab Fellow\, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s collection of cases of Islamic law in U.S. Courts\, including cases of family law and religious accommodation. From there\, comparison of state courts with overall federal courts using computational text analysis methods allows for insights into whether there is consistency of themes and considerations between lower and upper court decisions. This can allow researchers to identify spots of bias\, sentiment\, and missing considerations that become future questions about the narrative created by U.S. Courts in dealing with Islamic law. Details.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-research-methods-studying-court-narratives-through-machine-learning-and-natural-language-processing/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T130000
DTSTAMP:20171030T165747Z
CREATED:20171030T165747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T165747Z
UID:10000920-1511870400-1511874000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Law Library Faculty Book Talk: Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts
DESCRIPTION:A panel to discuss Professor Intisar Rabb’s soon-to-be released book co-edited with Abigail Krasner Balbale\, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts\, composed in honor of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/hls-law-library-faculty-book-talk-justice-and-leadership-in-early-islamic-courts/
LOCATION:Lewis 214A\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000
DTSTAMP:20171114T180045Z
CREATED:20171114T180045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T180045Z
UID:10000929-1512057600-1512064800@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications
DESCRIPTION:Shady Nasser\nAssistant Professor\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nProfessor Nasser teaches Arabic literature as well as Islamic Civilizations courses. He previous posting was as a University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK)\, in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Shady started his PhD at Harvard University in Arabic and Islamic studies under the supervision of Wolfhart Heinrichs. He completed his PhD in 2011. From 2009-2012 he was a senior lector of Arabic and the coordinator of the Arabic language program at Yale University. In 2013\, he was appointed University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK). Nasser’s research interest is Qur’anic studies in general with particular focus on the history of the transmission of the text\, its language\, and its reception among the early Muslim community. Pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry\, Akhbār Literature\, and Ḥadith transmission\, are also among Nasser’s research interests. \nCo-sponsors: The Committee on Study of Religion\, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Islamic Legal Studies Program (Law & Social Change)\, Julius-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish & Israeli Law
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/twelver-imami-shiite-views-on-the-variant-readings-of-the-quran-legal-and-theological-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel 262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T130000
DTSTAMP:20180216T210215Z
CREATED:20180216T210215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T210215Z
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SUMMARY:Common Roots\, Diverging Branches: Dynamism in Islamic and Jewish Law
DESCRIPTION:The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School presents a lunchtime lecture with Professor Gideon Libson (Professor Emeritus\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem): \nGideon Libson is Professor Emeritus of Jewish and Islamic Law and Comparative Jewish and Islamic Law in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has written extensively on Jewish Law\, Islamic Law and Comparative Jewish-Islamic Law. His book on Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Study of Custom During the Geonic Period was published by Harvard University Press in 2003. \nProf. Gideon Libson’s lecture will explore the core common principles in several fields of law in the Islamic and Jewish legal traditions\, with clear similarities between them. It was only over the years that the two systems diverged\, primarily as a result of Jewish law’s dynamic ability to adapt to the challenges and constraints of changing circumstances by supplementing the initial core with additional normative layers. As a result of the significant disparity that emerged between them\, their initial common basis has become completely invisible. The similarity between the two systems has all but vanished\, while the differences have increased. \nFor more information\, please contact Menachem Butler (mbutler@law.harvard.edu)
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/common-roots-diverging-branches-dynamism-in-islamic-and-jewish-law/
LOCATION:Pound Hall 100\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T203000
DTSTAMP:20180227T131900Z
CREATED:20180227T131900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T131900Z
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SUMMARY:Redefining and Retaining Shariʿah Compliance in Islamic Finance
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture on Islamic Finance
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/redefining-and-retaining-shari%ca%bfah-compliance-in-islamic-finance/
LOCATION:SOAS University of London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T180000
DTSTAMP:20180227T155027Z
CREATED:20180227T155027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T155027Z
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SUMMARY:History of the Book :: Arabic Book Culture from Manuscript to Print by Ahmed El Shamsy\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:  \nArabic Book Culture from Manuscript to Print\nRespondent\nElias Muhanna\nBrown University
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/history-of-the-book-arabic-book-culture-from-manuscript-to-print-by-ahmed-el-shamsy-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Room 133
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T180000
DTSTAMP:20180227T134000Z
CREATED:20180227T134000Z
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SUMMARY:The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series :: The Place of Ethics in Islamic Law by Ahmed El Shamsy\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series \npresents \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Place of Ethics in Islamic Law \n\n\n\n\n\nAhmed El Shamsy\nAssociate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern\nLanguages and Civilizations\, University of Chicago \nProfessor El-Shamsy is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He studies the intellectual history of Islam\, focusing on the evolution of the classical Islamic disciplines and scholarly culture within their broader historical context. His research addresses themes such as orality and literacy\, the history of the book\, and the theory and practice of Islamic law. His first book\, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History\, traces the transformation of Islamic law from a primarily oral tradition to a systematic written discipline in the eighth and ninth centuries. He is now at work on his second book\, a study of the reinvention of the Islamic scholarly tradition and its textual canon via the printing press in the early twentieth century. \n\nMarch 6\, 2018 || 4:00 to 6:00 pm \nCMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland Street\nCambridge\, MA 02138 \nContact: Liz Flanagan\nLink: http://bit.ly/2CxWuUQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  cmes.fas.harvard.edu || twitter || instagram || facebook
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-harvard-law-and-religion-lecture-series-the-place-of-ethics-in-islamic-law-by-ahmed-el-shamsy-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T120000
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SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Hair and Identity in Islamic and Jewish Law: Uncovering an Unlikely Link
DESCRIPTION:Ahmed El Shamsy\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School will delve into the seemingly frivolous issue of male grooming practices to shed light on how the early Muslim community positioned itself and its law vis-a-vis the Jews and Jewish law. \nAhmed El Shamsy (PhD Harvard\, 2009) is an associate professor of Islamic thought at the University of Chicago and a senior scholar at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He studies the intellectual history of Islam\, focusing on the evolution of the classical Islamic disciplines and scholarly culture within their broader historical context. His research addresses themes such as orality and literacy\, the history of the book\, and the theory and practice of Islamic law. His first book\, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History\, traced the transformation of Islamic law from a primarily oral tradition to a systematic written discipline in the eighth and ninth centuries. He is now completing his second book\, a study of the reinvention of the Islamic scholarly tradition and its textual canon via the printing press in the early twentieth century.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk-hair-and-identity-in-islamic-and-jewish-law-uncovering-an-unlikely-link/
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T205704Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Islamic Challenges to the Universality of International Law
DESCRIPTION:The universality and coherence of modern international is increasingly challenged by technical fragmentation and identity-driven claims to particularity. This talk critically examines both the historical contribution of Islamic law to the regulation of international relations and whether relations with and between Islamic nations are in fact different. \nHow to meet the justified demand for greater pedagogical recognition of diversity\, with an intellectually honest critical engagement with non-Western cultural and legal traditions has become one of the defining challenges of teaching international law in the global classroom. It appears evident that accepting facile claims derived from a selective and highly idealised reading of dogmatic texts cannot do justice to our understanding of the actual operation of pre-modern\, non-Western international legal relations. More importantly\, such a selective\, idealised\, often hortatory reading of the dogmatic and historical record does not prepare us to evaluate the possibility\, indeed desirability of alternative systems of international law\, as claimed for instance by an alleged ‘Islamic law of nations’\, siyar. \nDr. Ebrahim Afsah is an associate professor of public international law at the University of Vienna and a professor of Islamic law and ethics at the University of Vienna. He has been trained at SOAS London\, Trinity College Dublin\, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg. Prior to rejoining academia\, he worked for many years as a consultant on administrative reform and state-building\, an experience which informs his approach to the study of Islamic public law. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk-international-law-from-an-islamic-law-point-of-view/
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T175427Z
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SUMMARY:Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible.
DESCRIPTION:Asifa Quraishi-Landes will explain her current project\, proposing a structure for Islamic constitutionalism that is inspired by Islamic jurisprudence and Muslim history\, yet designed for contemporary realities. This structure is conceptually different from the typical “Islamic state” imagined by modern political Islam movements\, as it is built upon the pre-colonial separation of Muslim lawmaking power: siyasa\, made by rulers\, and fiqh\, articulated by religious legal scholars. She will argue that popular understandings of sharia fail to see the constitutional importance of these two legal realms\, largely because global discourses about Islamic government are dominated by Eurocentric concepts of law (especially religious law). Quraishi-Landes will then present a proposal for Islamic constitutionalism that will demonstrate that—if we step outside the European nation-state paradigm to see sharīʿa as an Islamic rule of law made up of both fiqhand siyasa—an Islamic constitutionalism that is not secular and not theocratic is not impossible. \nQuraishi-Landes is a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School\, where she teaches courses in US Constitutional Law and Islamic law. Her research focuses on comparative constitutional law\, with a current focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory. \nCo-sponsored by the Muslim Law Students Association and the Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA) at Harvard Law School.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-constitutionalism-not-secular-not-theocratic-not-impossible/
LOCATION:Wasserstein B010\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T210623Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Comparing Waqf and Western Landed Trusts
DESCRIPTION:Ebrahim Afsah\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\, will discuss his current research on a structured comparison between waqf and the Western institution of landed trust and the implications for Islamic administrative and public law. \nMediterranean lunch will be served.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk-comparing-waqf-and-western-landed-trusts/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T200000
DTSTAMP:20180405T165620Z
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SUMMARY:Timbuktu and Beyond: The Past\, Present\, and Future of West African Manuscript--Round Table
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at New York University’s Tamiment Library (10th floor\, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library\, 70 Washington Sq. South) on Wednesday\, April 11\, 6:30-8:00PM (doors open at 6pm) for a round table on issues relating to early West African manuscripts. \nA fundamental source for the history of West Africa lies in rich archival collections\, most famously the manuscript libraries of Timbuktu. Documents from the Mali and Songhai Empires and the centuries before European colonial rule offer a vital window into the region’s complex ties to the wider Muslim world\, and to cultures and polities in Africa\, Europe\, and the Middle East. \nOusmane Kane (Harvard) and Michael Gomez (NYU) will discuss their recent work reassessing the religious and political history of West Africa\, research which relied heavily on the documentary evidence to be found in such collections. Alexandra Huddleston is a photojournalist who spent part of her childhood in Mali\, returning there in 2007 to document the traditional custodianship of manuscript collections in Timbuktu\, before they were dramatically spirited out of the city for protection from advancing insurgents in 2013. \nThe participants will discuss their experiences with West African documents\, as well as the challenges of consulting and protecting these renowned archives of human history. Geared toward a general audience\, the event welcomes those interested in African\, Islamic\, and medieval history\, as well as librarians and archivists concerned about the preservation of threatened cultural heritage collections. Copies of the speakers’ publications will be available for purchase. \nEvent is open to the public. RSVP not required but would be appreciated; register here: \nhttps://events.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/202442 \n(Co-sponsored by New York University’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library\, the departments of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies\, History\, and Africana Studies\, and the Medieval & Renaissance Center\, with support from Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science.)
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/timbuktu-and-beyond-the-past-present-and-future-of-west-african-manuscript-round-table/
LOCATION:New York University’s Tamiment Library\, 70 Washington Sq. South
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T210918Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:Early Islamic political theory as it enjoyed currency among the scholarly classes alternated between two possibilities: legal functionalism and political anthropology.  Critical to our understanding of these intellectual trends and their conceptual contours is an understanding of a “theoretical turn” in early Islamic thought which created the preconditions for a theory of power\, and the domain of its proper application between the political and the religious.  Codified forms of early Islamic political theory\, as well as those which went out of favor in subsequent generations have arguably less to do with a “tradition” of caliphal sovereignty than the nature of the intellectual resources available\, and in fact proceeded from the presumption of an absence of religiously normative state structures.  This presentation will attempt a non-teleological archaeology of aforementioned political theories within an diachronic discursive analysis from the 8th to the 11th centuries of the common era. \nRodrigo Adem is an ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow and Dumbarton Oaks College Fellow in Medieval Mediterranean History at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He studies pre-modern Muslim thought as an intellectual and social historian.  He is particularly interested in how scholarly networks mediated social and epistemic authority within the urban and political development of the Near East and Mediterranean over the 8th to 14th century.  He hopes to further current understanding of how paradigmatic scholarly traditions of law\, theology\, historiography\, philosophy\, mysticism\, and political thought came to be codified during this period\, and persist in key facets of Muslim thought to the present day.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T130000
DTSTAMP:20180327T232440Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Gentleman and a Scholar: Profile of an Ottoman Judge in the Late Sixteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Amir Toft’s talk profiles the education and career of a judge who served for one year around 1580 as judge in the court of Üsküdar\, one of the districts of Istanbul. His name and titles—Mevlana Ibrahim Çelebi Efendi el-Galatavi—are known to us only through their appearance in the court register for that year. Apart from that we know next to nothing directly about him. However\, thanks to the decades of work by Ottomanists\, we are able with reasonable certainty to reconstruct the path that he took to arrive at the Üsküdar court\, a relatively high position that only a few people in the Ottoman legal profession were qualified to reach. \nThe purpose of this talk\, as well as the project on which it draws\, is to provide more narrative depth to the historiography of early modern Ottoman law. The great bulk of Ottoman legal studies for that period pays heavy attention to bureaucratic administration and its most prominent figures. That emphasis\, while invaluable Toft’s own research\, has nevertheless come at the expense of two things: one is how Ottoman jurists received and adapted Islamic jurisprudence\, and the other is anything more than a thin description of the characters that drove the Ottoman legal system. This talk focuses in on the latter. Because most judges and other legal officials did not leave behind a literary output\, their names only show up in archival records and they look like faceless and wooden functionaries. This talk breathes a bit of life into one of these functionaries\, who would otherwise remain totally forgotten. \nAmir Toft is a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Thought in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His primary scholarly interests are in Islamic jurisprudence and Ottoman history\, with a view to understanding how institutions of law and government worked on the ground in premodern Islamic societies. His dissertation\, through the lens of homicide in late sixteenth-century Istanbul\, studies the Ottoman reception and application of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. During the 2017–18 academic year he has been a research fellow in the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-gentleman-and-a-scholar-profile-of-an-ottoman-judge-in-the-late-sixteenth-century/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu
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