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 …
On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST, Professor Yilmaz will be speaking on his book Sharia as Informal Law: Lived Experiences of Young Muslims in Western Societies. This book takes a comprehensive approach to investigate how Sharia influences and manifests in the everyday lives of young Muslims, aiming to unravel the meaning and …
Registration is now open for the 101st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. The Meeting will take place on March 19–21, 2026 on the campuses of the University …
Cem Turkoz (NELC), “An Edifice of Super-Glosses: The Making of an Ottoman Tradition of Natural Philosophy, 1650–1800.” Carina Dreyer (NELC) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the …
From the organizers: Criteria: Early-career scholars who wish to present a paper on any topic in legal, institutional and/or constitutional history, at the annual ASLH conference. Amount: $500 cash + …
ARIT FELLOWSHIPS for 2026 The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) announces 2026 ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey. Awards are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Tenures range from one to three months. Scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on …
Join us for a two-day Arabic digital humanities workshop to learn TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) mark-up of Arabic-script texts for critical digital editions. Hugh Cayless (TEI treasurer, senior programmer Duke University …
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, …
The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond Adrien de Jarmy, University of Strasbourg Zoom: https://bit.ly/JarmyTEI This lecture is free and open to the public CO-SPONSORS: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School Friday, April 3, …
Amadu Kunateh (CSR), “Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive.” Nicholas Judt (CSR) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker …
