May 2024

Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, c. 750–850” with Philip Wood, Program in Islamic Law, May 14, 2024 @ 12:30 – 1:30 pm

May 14, 2024 @ 12:30 - 13:30

On Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Philip Wood (Aga Khan University) will give a book talk on The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, c. 750–850 (Princeton University Press, 2021) as part of our Islamic Law Speaker Series. This book examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the political practices …

Postdoctoral researcher position: University of Galway, May 16, 2024

May 16, 2024

BILQIS is a five-year (2023-2028) European Research Council Consolidator Grant. The PI is Professor Roja Fazaeli, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway. BILQIS investigates Muslim women’s access to justice in Europe by studying of how Muslim women in Europe have navigated questions of agency and authority from the long 19th century to the …

Conference: The 2024 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award Presentation and Conference, May 16-17, 2024

May 16, 2024 - May 17, 2024

The 2024 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award presentation and conference will be held May 16–17, 2024 at UCLA. The award will be jointly presented to Michael Cook, Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, and Hossein Modarressi, Bayard Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, in recognition of their decades-long …

International Course on Legal Pluralism: Commission on Legal Pluralism, May 20, 2024

May 20, 2024

“From 8-11 January 2025 the Commission on Legal Pluralism in collaboration with the Universitas Indonesia Law School will organize a course on Legal Pluralism in Jakarta, Indonesia about theories, knowledge and methodologies of legal pluralism. The purpose of the 4-day course is to familiarize the participants with the current international debates and insights on socio-legal …

Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study, May 20, 2024

May 20, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00

From Ekaterina Pukhovaia at the Leiden University (see here): Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that this spring Leiden University will host the first round of a series of online talks about Yemen. The series, running from January 2024 till June 2025 and sponsored by the Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project EMStaD YEMEN, brings together experts …

Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): Between Ṭarābulus and Aṭrābulus. The journey of the toponym and difficulties in determining its form, May 22, 2024

May 22, 2024 @ 12:00 - 13:00

Session 8 (22 May 2024, 18h CET) Between Ṭarābulus and Aṭrābulus. The journey of the toponym and difficulties in determining its form, Mohamed Ghodhbane (University of Tunis al-Manar, Tunisia) Link on demand at: [email protected]

Position opening: Musawah Programme Officer for the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Region, May 31, 2024

May 31, 2024

Thank you for your interest in applying for the Programme Officer MENA Region job advertised by Musawah. We would like to get a sense of your personality & interests, and how they fit with our organisational needs, so please fill out this form. Please answer as concisely as possible (ideally in 50-150 words). Musawah will treat …

June 2024

Call for Papers: De Jure: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar’iah, June 2024

June 1, 2024

From the journal: The development of Islamic law in modern countries is an interesting study material for scholars and policymakers. Islamic law is believed to be able to build a civil society. De Jure: Jurnal Hukum dan Syar’iah aims to be an active forum to discuss new ideas about the development of Islamic law in Muslim or …

Call for Papers: The Medieval Academy at 100, The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, March 20-22, 2025 (deadline: June 3, 2024)

June 3, 2024

From the organizers: The Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by Harvard University, Boston College, …

Conference in Honour of Shaheen Sardar Ali: Modern Challenges to Islamic Law: Exploring New Pathways, Max Planck Institute Hamburg, June 6-7, 2024

June 6, 2024 - June 7, 2024

Conference in Honour of Shaheen Sardar Ali START: Jun 6, 2024 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany) END: Jun 7, 2024 04:30 PM LOCATION: Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law For …