EUME Berliner Seminar: “Law, Litigation, and Politics of Legitimization: On the Possibilities and Limits of Palestinian Legal Action in Israel” by Suhad Bishara, November 20, 2024 @ 11 am – 12:30 pm

Law, Litigation, and Politics of Legitimization: On the Possibilities and Limits of Palestinian Legal Action in Israel Suhad Bishara (Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel / EUME Fellow 2024/25), Chair: Muriel Asseburg (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin Further information will follow soon. Pleaser register

Conference: The Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN) Conference, November 21, 2024 (Deadline for abstract submissions: October 27, 2024)

From the organizers: Upcoming: 11th IDHN Conference on Thursday, November 21, 2024 If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an email to [email protected] with a preliminary title, abstract (150-300 words), and your academic affiliation by Sunday, October 27, 2024. General info: The IDH Network holds a spring conference in April/May, a fall conference in October/November

Book Roundtable: “Order and Disorder in the Ottoman Empire,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, November 22, 2024

“Where: Bunche Hall 10383 When: Friday, November 22, 2024 / 12:30 PM (Pacific Time) In this book roundtable, Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA) and Nir Shafir (UC San Diego) will present on their new publications, The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service (Yale University Press, 2024) and The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in

Fellowship: Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization, 2025-2026, Yale Law School (Deadline: November 30, 2024)

“The Abdallah S. Kamel Center at the Yale Law School for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization will be accepting applications for its 2025-2026 research fellowships from November 1 until November 30, 2024. The fellowships are designed to bring promising junior scholars to the Law School in order to advance their academic research relating

Fellowship: M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources, Rare Book School, 2025-2026, December 9, 2024

“The M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources is a two-year program designed to animate humanities teaching and equip educators (both library/curatorial staff and tenured or tenure-track faculty) to enlarge their students’ historical sensibilities through bibliographically informed instruction with original historical sources. ” For more information on eligibility

Islamic Law Speaker Series: “On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran,” Bahman Khodadadi, Program in Islamic Law, December 10, 2024 @ 12:30 – 1:30 pm

On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST, Dr. Bahman Khodadadi (Harvard Law School) will present On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran (Oxford University Press, 2024). This talk explores the roots and structures of the criminal law system of the world’s most prominent constitutional theocracy, the Shīʿī theocracy. While discussing

Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law Special Issue, January 13, 2025

Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law Special Issue Moratoriums on Islamic Criminal Punishments: Legal Debates and Current Practices The Journal of Islamic Law invites papers that explore both theoretical discussions and practical applications concerning the ḥudūd, penalties that Muslim jurists consider to be divinely ordained punishments. With the establishment of modern Islamic states and