September 2025

Summer School on Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies, September 1-4, 2025, Switzerland (Deadline: June 13, 2025)

September 1 - September 4

From the organizers: Date: September 1, 2025 – September 4, 2025 Location: Switzerland Subject Fields: Digital Humanities, Islamic History / Studies The University of Bern is pleased to host a four-day summer school on Digital Humanities for Islamic Studies, designed for early-career researchers working with Arabic-script materials. This course provides a unique opportunity to gain …

Call for Panels: International Medieval Congress, September 30, 2025

September 6 @ 08:00 - 17:00

The next International Medieval Congress (IMC) conference will be held in July 2026. Middle East Medievalists (MEM) invites their members to submit panels to the IMC by September 30, 2025. From the organizers: MEM sponsors IMC panels in the field of medieval Islamic history/studies. There is no need to receive our approval since IMC does …

Call for Papers: Middle East Beyond Borders Fall 2025 Workshop, September 12

September 12

From the Organizers: Middle East Beyond Borders (MEBB) Fall 2025: Call for Papers Please complete this survey to record your interest in presenting a polished work-in-progress (polished dissertation chapter or an undefended prospectus) at MEBB during the Fall 2025 semester. The MEBB workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past …

Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Omar Abdel Ghaffar (Harvard University), “Canonizing Assent: Legal Canons in Action in late Medieval Jerusalem,” September 22, 2025 @6:15pm

September 22 @ 18:15 - 19:30

Omar Abdel Ghaffar (PhD candidate, HMES/JD’25) will join us to share a chapter titled “Canonizing Assent: Legal Canons in Action in late Medieval Jerusalem” on September 22nd. Saaleh Baseer (PhD candidate, HMES) 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 …

Talk: Maral Sahebjame—“Dismantling the Family Unit”: Clerics and Cohabitation in Contemporary Iran, September 29, 2025 @12:00pm

September 29 @ 12:00 - 13:30

From the organizers: “Dismantling the Family Unit”: Clerics and Cohabitation in Contemporary Iran 202 Jones Hall, Princeton University Sep 29, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm Intimate partner relationships are an affective site of neoliberalism, constantly transforming to fit the exigencies of the moment. Individuals uniquely adapt marriage expectations and practices within and beyond normative …

Study Group: “The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World” with Youssef Chahed and Hisham Kassem (Senior Fellows, Middle East Initiative), September 30, 2025

September 30

The Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School is currently accepting applications for a not-for-credit lecture series offered by two of our Senior Fellows this semester: Dr. Youssef Chahed, former PM of Tunisia, and Hisham Kassem, former Egyptian publisher. The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World Dr. Youssef Chahed, former Prime Minister of …

October 2025

Position Opening: Research Associate (PhD Position) for the history, economy and law of the early Islamic empire, Universität Hamburg, October 3, 2026

October 3

From the institution: Faculty of Humanities, Asia-Africa-Studies, Islamic Studies Salary level: EGR. 13 TV-L Start date: as soon as possible, fixed until 31.12.2027 (This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act ). Application deadline: 03.10.2025 Scope of work: part-time Weekly hours: 50 % of standard work …

Talk: “The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law,” Adam Baczko, October 9, 2025 @ 4:30pm

October 9 @ 16:30 - 17:30

Date and Time: Thursday, October 9 at 4:30pm Location: The Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), The Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) Knafel Building Speaker: Adam Baczko (Research Associate Professor, CNRS, SciencesPo) Talk Title: “The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law” Discussant: Thomas Barfield, Ph.D. (Professor of Anthropology, Boston University)

Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School), The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology, October 14, 2025 @12:30pm

October 14 @ 12:30 - 13:30

TUE 14 OCT 2025 | 12.30-1.30p US EST | Zoom Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School) The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology (Harvard University Press) Dr. Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School) will present “The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: From Artifact to Ontology,” a chapter from his forthcoming book, Islamic Legal …

Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law, October 15, 2025

October 15

The Journal of Islamic Law welcomes scholarship in Islamic law for its main publication as well as its dynamic forum, which features scholarly responses, debates, and new developments in Islamic law scholarship or at the intersection of Islamic law and data science. We seek articles of up to 15,000 words for the Journal of Islamic …