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SUMMARY:Conference: Islam and Toleration
DESCRIPTION:The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University is pleased to announce our annual conference on Islam and Toleration. This conference aims to explore the concept and realities of toleration in the Islamic tradition with a focus on contemporary work\, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the United States. This conference is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource. \nIslam and toleration Poster \nKeynote Address \nThursday\, March 1st 5:30pm\, Tsai Auditorium \n  \n“Reflections on Tolerance and its Difficulty” \n  \nThomas M. Scanlon\, Alford Professor of Natural Religion\, Moral Philosophy\, and Civil Polity\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \n  \n  \nPanel Discussions \nFriday\, March 2nd from 10:00am to 5:00pm\, Belfer Case Study Room \n  \n10:00 am – Panel 1 – Muslim minorities in Non-Muslim societies \nPanelists: Khalil Abdur-Rashid\, Sugata Bose\, Jocelyn Cesari\, Yee Htun \nChair: William A. Graham \n  \n1:00 pm – Panel 2 – Minorities in Muslim-majority societies \nPanelists: Orit Bashkin\, Kristin Fabbe\, Ousmane Kane\, Jeremy Menchik \nChair: Shady Nasser \n  \n3:00 pm – Panel 3 – Intra-Islamic Toleration \nPanelists: Akeel Bilgrami\, Nebil Husayn\, Mohsen Kadivar\, Roy P. Mottahedeh \nChair: Tarek Masoud \n  \n  \nAll sessions will take place at CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA 02138.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-islam-and-toleration/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T180000
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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:20180308T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T173000
DTSTAMP:20180227T134354Z
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SUMMARY:Early Shiʿi Law in Context
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/early-shi%ca%bfi-law-in-context/
LOCATION:Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180322
DTSTAMP:20180130T194533Z
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SUMMARY:Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Venue and date: Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta \nThis multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on\, but are not limited to\, one or\nmore of the following themes: \n1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages in the Mediterranean\, whether contemporary or historical perspective (colonial and postcolonial). \n2. Investigating the non-apparent connections between different religions within and without marriage legislation (Sunni\, Shia\, Catholic\, Orthodox\, Coptic\, Jewish\, Hindu…)\, including papers on\nmixed marriages. \n3. How human/civil rights discourses blend and/or conflict with other forms of theological\, moral and/or customary discourses on religious marriages. \n4. Diverse ways of concluding and/or celebrating religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \n5. Problematization and politicization of religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \nOrganizers:\nIbtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam) \nDavid Zammit (University of Malta) \nSusan Hirsch (George Mason University) \nPapers (7\,000-8\,000 words)\, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international\, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476)\, published by the Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse. \nUpon request\, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal. \nOrganizers: \nIbtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam) \nDavid Zammit (University of Malta) \nSusan F. Hirsch (George Mason University) \nPapers (7\,000-8\,000 words)\, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international\, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476)\, published \nby the Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse. \nUpon request\, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal. \nKey note speaker: \nAnnelies Moors\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of Amsterdam \nDeadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2018 \nAbstracts of 200-300 words are to be submitted via e-mail: i.sadegh@uva.nl with ‘abstract’ \nand your last name in the subject heading. \nTimeline: \n31 January 2018: Deadline for abstract submission \n10 February 2018: Notification of acceptance \n1 March 2018: Deadline for complete draft of paper between 5000 – 8000 words \nor a PowerPoint presentation. \n20-21 March 2018: Conference hosted by the Mediterranean Institute \n1 April 2018: Select participants will be invited to submit papers for consideration for publication in 2018 in the Journal of Mediterranean Studies \nThis two-day conference is organized by the University of Malta through the Department of Civil Law and the Mediterranean Institute research group on Belief\, Identity and Exchange in conjunction with the ERC-funded research project on ‘Problematizing “Muslim Marriages”: Ambiguities and Contestations’ hosted by the University of Amsterdam. See http://religionresearch.org/musmar2014/
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/religious-marriages-in-the-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T205415Z
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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;VALUE=DATE:20180323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180325
DTSTAMP:20180227T130348Z
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UID:10000810-1521763200-1521935999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:35th Annual Conference of the American Society for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS): Islam in the Post-Obama Era
DESCRIPTION:This conference is being co-sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. \nOf Note:\n \n\n\n\n11:15AM – 12:15PM\nSession 2: Shariah and the Public Sphere in the United States \nChair: Peter Skerry\, Boston College \nThe Shariah Scare Industry and the Clash of Temporalities\nSteven Fink\, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire \nOn Stoning Punishments and Human Rights\nSyed Atif Rizwan\, University of California\, Los Angeles
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/35th-annual-conference-of-the-american-society-for-the-study-of-islamic-societies-acsis-islam-in-the-post-obama-era/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T205704Z
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UID:10000976-1522152000-1522155600@pil.law.harvard.edu
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:20180331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180331T140000
DTSTAMP:20180327T225225Z
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SUMMARY:Arab American Law Association Talk on Middle Eastern Legal Systems
DESCRIPTION:Lawyers John L. Habib and Abduallah Al-Haroun will lead a discussion centered around law and the Middle East. Both John Habib and Abduallah Al-Haroun have experience practicing law in some of the Middle East’s most competitive and emerging markets. In this talk\, they will share their experiences and provide insight into some of the biggest obstacles and challenges of practicing law in the region. \nHave a question for the speakers? There will be a Q&A after the talk! \nThe talk will be held on the 31st of March between 12-2 pm EST at Simmons College\, 300 Fenway\, Boston\, MA 02115. Here is a link to the event on Facebook\, let us know if you’re coming! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/385928071874957/ \nJohn L. Habib \nMr. Habib obtained his JD from Emroy University in Atlanta Georgia in 1990. He is the founding owner and Managing Partner of HLS Attorneys\, a New York law firm which maintains representative offices in Washington\, D.C. and the United Arab Emirates. HLS Attorneys specializes in commercial law and real estate transactions\, litigation/arbitration and US/foreign law compliance matters. \nAbduallah Al-Haroun \nMr. Al-Haroun obtained his Bachelor of law from Queen Mary University in London\, UK in 2013 and is a member of the Kuwait bar association. Mr. Al-Haroun is an Associate at the International Counsel in Kuwait where he offers legal counsel and advice on matters relating to corporate commercial law\, environment\, mergers and acquisitions\, among many others\, to a number of major local and multinational corporations across a multitude of sectors and industries. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/arab-american-law-association-talk-on-middle-eastern-systems/
LOCATION:Simmons College\, 300 Fenway\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180402
DTSTAMP:20180227T133336Z
CREATED:20180227T133336Z
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UID:10000963-1522540800-1522627199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mesa Book Awards: Including Two New Awards
DESCRIPTION:The MESA Board of Directors has approved the creation of two new book awards honoring the pioneering efforts of two women. The inaugural awards will be presented at the 52nd MESA Annual Meeting in San Antonio\, Texas. \nThe Nikki Keddie Book Award was established to recognize an outstanding contribution on religion\, revolution\, and history/society. The annual award was named for Nikki Keddie to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and teacher. Read More \nThe Fatima Mernissi Book Award was established to recognize an outstanding contribution to studies of gender\, sexuality\, and women’s lived experience. The annual award was named for Fatima Mernissi to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and as a public intellectual. Read More  \nMESA INVITES NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2018 MESA BOOK AWARDS COMPETITION. \nNominations for all three MESA Book Awards – the Albert Hourani Book Award\, the Nikki Keddie Book Award\, and the Fatima Mernissi Book Award – are made simultaneously. Nominations can be made by either the publisher or the author. Although there is no limit on the number of titles that authors or publishers may submit\, we ask that they exercise discretion in the selection of books nominated.  Below is a list of criteria that should be met: \n\nBooks must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1\, 2017 and March 31\, 2018. Authors need not be members of MESA.\n\n  \n\nSubject matter must deal with the Middle East.  Areas primarily of interest include Iran\, Turkey\, Afghanistan\, Israel\, Pakistan\, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times.  Spain\, Southeastern Europe\, the Soviet Union and other regions also are included for the periods in which their territories were part of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.\n\n  \n\nWorks not eligible include edited collections and compilations\, proceedings of symposia\, new editions of previously published books\, bibliographies\, dictionaries\, textbooks\, and surveys.\n\n  \n\nNominations must be made by April 1\, 2018\, with books delivered to the readers by April 10\, 2018\, for books to be eligible for the competition. (Emailed nominations are acceptable)\n\nThe author of the Albert Hourani Book Award will receive $1000 and a certificate of award. The authors of the Nikki Keddie and Fatima Mernissi Book Awards will receive $500 each. In the event of co-winners\, prize money will be divided evenly among the winners. Honorable mentions also receive a certificate of award. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the 52ndMESA Annual Meeting in San Antonio\, Texas. As well\, the results will be posted on MESA’s website and in other publications as deemed appropriate by MESA. \n  \nFor more information about nominating a book\, see MESA Book Awards
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/mesa-book-awards-including-two-new-awards/
CATEGORIES:prizes and nominations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180405
DTSTAMP:20180122T180208Z
CREATED:20180122T180208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T180208Z
UID:10000962-1522800000-1522886399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights: 18th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on “International and Transnational Crimes"
DESCRIPTION:ISISC is glad to announce that the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights – the new public name adopted by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) – is organizing its 18th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on “International and Transnational Crimes”\, dedicated to the memory of prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni (1937-2017). The course will take place from May 27 to June 4\, 2018 in Siracusa (Italy). \nThe Siracusa Institute will select 60 participants who should have a university degree\, ideally in law or with some studies in law\, and be 35 years of age or under. Provision may be made for auditors who do not fulfil these conditions. Furthermore\, the Institute will offer 10 scholarships to applicants from Developing and Less Developed Countries. Applications should be submitted by April 4\, 2018. \nAll relevant information and the application form are available on at www.siracusainstitute.org. You are kindly requested to fill out the application form directly on the webpage. Once you have submitted your application online\, you will receive a confirmation. \nPlease do not hesitate to contact the Siracusa Institute for any questions or concerns you may have at icl-course@siracusainstitute.org.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/siracusa-international-institute-for-criminal-justice-and-human-rights-18th-specialization-course-in-international-criminal-law-for-young-penalists-on-international-and-transnational-crimes/
LOCATION:Siracusa\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180412
DTSTAMP:20180307T172816Z
CREATED:20180307T172816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T172816Z
UID:10000817-1523232000-1523491199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:British Association for Islamic Studies Conference 2018
DESCRIPTION:The Law\, Learning and Authority in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) project will host a panel at the British Association for Islamic Studies (www.BRAIS.ac.uk)\, to be held at the University of Exeter\, 9th-11th April 2018 – a programme is available here.  The project team\, along with many working in Shii Studies\, will attend and present at the conference.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/british-association-for-islamic-studies-conference-2018/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T175427Z
CREATED:20180301T175427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T175427Z
UID:10000972-1523275200-1523278800@pil.law.harvard.edu
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
CREATED:20180301T210623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T210623Z
UID:10000813-1523361600-1523365200@pil.law.harvard.edu
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
CREATED:20180405T165620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180405T165620Z
UID:10000820-1523471400-1523476800@pil.law.harvard.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180416
DTSTAMP:20180504T203244Z
CREATED:20180504T203244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T203244Z
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SUMMARY:MA: Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is to provide international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and diverse links between the Muslim\, Jewish and Christian intellectual contributions during the medieval period. The program is characterised by a strongly research-driven\, interdisciplinary and interreligious approach with an emphasis on primary texts in original language (Arabic). Students will be trained and mentored by internationally renowned guest lecturers who are counted among the leading experts in their respective fields of research. \nThe primarily web-based MA program also includes three face-to-face sessions in Cordoba (prov.) and Berlin per academic year during which the students and teachers will actually come together for discussion\, teaching and examination. Freie Universität Berlin offers this one-year\, full-time MA program of 60 ECTS to an expected number of 20 students\, many of whom are from the region of the Middle East. The language of instruction is English. \nApplications are now open! The application period for the academic year 2018/19 is from 15 April until 31 May 2018. \nPlease also note that there will be two program presentation sessions on May 2nd and May 7th (16.30 Jerusalem time). Our team will briefly present the MA and will be available afterwards to answer any questions you might have.\nMore information here: bit.ly/IEIWpresentation \nFor more information: www.ihiw.de/master\nFor direct enquiries: ieiw@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ma-intellectual-encounters-of-the-islamicate-world/
CATEGORIES:Applications,Opportunities,Programs
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180421
DTSTAMP:20171114T181811Z
CREATED:20171114T181811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T181811Z
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SUMMARY:3rd USPPIP Team Meeting and Workshop: Maslaha\, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari'a and Society
DESCRIPTION:A challenge for the Islamic Shari’a is that it should span from a religious ideal to a social and political reality. Islamic thinkers have long discussed whether this should primarily take the form of a fixed set of rules to be applied “because God has said so”\, or whether these rules reflect a divine intention (Ar. maqasid) which humans can grasp\, the intention of welfare for mankind (maslaha). If the latter\, should Muslims seek the rules and methods that best furthers these intentions in contemporary society? This has been a central issue for reform and modifications of Islamic practices for centuries\, as well as today. \nLinked to this discussion is the issue of authority. The Shari’a gives the state (the “ruler”) the authority to implement rules and make decisions beyond the literal rules of the Shari’a when they follow its intentions\, this is called siyasa shar’iya\, “Shari’a politics”. How the limits for the state’s freedom of action within Shari’a thinking goes\, depends on the relationship between the ruler and the religious authorities at any time. \nHow are these topics discussed today? This workshop will focus on the use of concepts such as maslaha and siyasa in Islamic discussion of reform and orthopraxy. To what degree do Islamic NGOs appeal to maslala in their activities? To what degree do Muslim thinkers today use the terms of siyasa  and maslaha in their discussions of state activities and laws in Muslim\, mixed and non-Muslim states? A central concept for many state-oriented NGOs is “good governance”. This term\, which may be used for accountability of the ruler\, or more widely for works promoting democratic practices\, is in many ways akin to “promotion of public welfare”\, i.e. maslaha. \nThe object of this workshop is to see the relationship between these modern ideas of reform and the classical fiqh debates on the same topics. Do modern Islamic thinkers refer to the classical debates at all; and if so\, are the fiqh concepts simply used as rhetoric\, putting a classical name to a modernist concept\, or are contemporary debates informed about the classical fiqh argument? How is the fiqh debates of the past used in the present? \nKeynotes speakers will be: \nFelicitas Opwis\, Georgtown University \nMohammad Fadel\, University of Toronto \nThe workshop will also include participants from civil society organizations.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/3rd-usppip-team-meeting-and-workshop-maslaha-siyasa-and-good-governance-sharia-and-society/
LOCATION:University of Bergen\, Norway
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180421
DTSTAMP:20171030T161124Z
CREATED:20171030T161124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T161124Z
UID:10000919-1524096000-1524268799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Maslaha\, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On the 19th – 20th April 2018\, the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies\, University of Bergen will host the workshop Maslaha\, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society. We are pleased to announce the Call for Paper proposals for this two-day event organised as part of the Humanities in the European Research Area ( HERA) “Uses of the Past” joint research programme. \nA challenge for the Islamic Shari’a is that it should span from a religious ideal to a social and political reality. Islamic thinkers have long discussed whether this should primarily take the form of a fixed set of rules to be applied “because God has said so”\, or whether these rules reflect a divine intention (Ar. maqasid) which humans can grasp\, the intention of welfare for mankind (maslaha). If the latter\, should Muslims seek the rules and methods that best furthers these intentions in contemporary society? This has been a central issue for reform and modifications of Islamic practices for centuries\, as well as today. \nLinked to this discussion is the issue of authority. The Shari’a gives the state (the “ruler”) the authority to implement rules and make decisions beyond the literal rules of the Shari’a when they follow its intentions\, this is called siyasa shar’iya\, “Shari’a politics”. How the limits for the state’s freedom of action within Shari’a thinking goes\, depends on the relationship between the ruler and the religious authorities at any time. \nHow are these topics discussed today? This workshop will focus on the use of concepts such as maslaha and siyasa in Islamic discussion of reform and orthopraxy. To what degree do Islamic NGOs appeal to maslala in their activities? To what degree do Muslim thinkers today use the terms of siyasa  and maslaha in their discussions of state activities and laws in Muslim\, mixed and non-Muslim states? A central concept for many state-oriented NGOs is “good governance”. This term\, which may be used for accountability of the ruler\, or more widely for works promoting democratic practices\, is in many ways akin to “promotion of public welfare”\, i.e. maslaha. \nThe object of this workshop is to see the relationship between these modern ideas of reform and the classical fiqh debates on the same topics. Do modern Islamic thinkers refer to the classical debates at all; and if so\, are the fiqh concepts simply used as rhetoric\, putting a classical name to a modernist concept\, or are contemporary debates informed about the classical fiqh argument? How is the fiqh debates of the past used in the present? \nKeynotes speakers will be: \nFelicitas Opwis\, Georgtown University \nMohammad Fadel\, University of Toronto
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/maslaha-siyasa-and-good-governance-sharia-and-society-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Bergen\, Norway
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T130000
DTSTAMP:20180315T214417Z
CREATED:20180315T214417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T214417Z
UID:10000816-1524571200-1524574800@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Southeast Asian Model of Sharīʿa Law? The Evolution and Possibility in Southeast Asian countries
DESCRIPTION:Mansurah Izzul Mohamed\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School will discuss her current research on how some Southeast Asian countries introduce and/or implement sharīʿa law practices. She will assess the history of the region and whether this model will hold up in the face of political\, economic and human rights pressure from the wider international community. \nMansurah Izzul Mohamed holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School\, Tufts University (2017) and a Master of Arts in Political Studies from Auckland University (2011)\, respectively and a Single Honors Bachelor Degree in International Relations from Keele University (2006). She has been awarded a Brunei Government In-Service Training (LDP) Scholarship to undergo graduate level studies. Before commencing her postgraduate studies\, Mohamed worked in Brunei Darussalam as a Research Officer and then Assistant Director at the Department of International Organizations (DIO)\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT).
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-southeast-asian-model-of-sharia-law-a-southeast-asian-model-of-sharia-law-the-evolution-and-possibility-in-southeast-asian-countries/
CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T210918Z
CREATED:20180301T210918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T210918Z
UID:10000814-1524744000-1524747600@pil.law.harvard.edu
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
CREATED:20180327T232440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T232440Z
UID:10000819-1525176000-1525179600@pil.law.harvard.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T130000
DTSTAMP:20180315T224659Z
CREATED:20180315T224659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T224659Z
UID:10000815-1525348800-1525352400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Apocalypticism and the Mahdi in Early Islam
DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Sagha\, SHARIAsource Editor and Iran Project Coordinator at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, will discuss Ibn al-Munādī’s Kitāb al-Malāḥim and sectarian identity in the ḥadīth corpus of Shīʿī and Sunnī law schools. The role and identity of the Mahdī in early Islamic thought is an important concept shared almost universally between Muslim schools of thought. However\, the process of ḥadīth crystallization between mainstream Sunnī and Shī’ī law schools has privileged certain narratives and orthodox interpretations of who the Mahdī is and what he represents. By highlighting a relatively newly published manuscript written in the 4th/10th century by the author Ibn al-Munādī with significant emphasis on eschatology and the Mahdī\, this presentation will contextualize the wider spectrum of early Islamic thought on the Mahdī and provide analysis on how the scholastic process of ḥadīth collection and the political context of revolution under the Abbasids has impacted scholarly understanding on the Mahdī throughout time. \nMohammad Sagha is the Iran Project Coordinator at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is concurrently undertaking his PhD studies in Islamic History and Civilization at the University of Chicago\, where he is also Co-Director of the Shi’i Studies Group and facilitates the university’s annual Shi’i Studies Symposium. He is additionally an editor for SHARIAsource at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Sagha’s research focuses on the origins of Muslim sectarian identity and political institutions\, early Islamic transregional religious movements and military organization\, and the historical development of Islamic political thought. In particular\, he studies early Shi’i underground social networks and the foundation of Shi’i dynastic power under the Buyids and their contemporaries.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-apocalypticism-and-the-mahdi-in-early-islam/
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:20180518T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T113000
DTSTAMP:20180518T190411Z
CREATED:20180518T190411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T190411Z
UID:10000982-1526634000-1526729400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Berbers and Moors: Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghreb
DESCRIPTION:Berbers and Moors: Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghreb \n18th-19th May 2018\, UCL\, London \nA workshop hosted by the University of Leicester and UCL and sponsored by the Society for Libyan Studies \nOrganisers: Corisande Fenwick (UCL) and Andy Merrills (University of Leicester) \n\nFriday\, Room 612 (6th floor)\, UCL Institute of Archaeology\, 31-34 Gordon Square\, London WC1H 0PY \n  \n2:00pm Welcome and Introduction \nCorisande Fenwick (UCL) and Andy Merrills (University of Leicester) \n2:30pm Mapping the pre-desert of Algeria: a satellite remote sensing to settlement  patterns in the mid-first millennium AD \nMartin Sterry (University of Durham)     \n\n3.30-4pm Tea \n\n4-6pm: The Men who Would be King: The Importance of Titulature in Fifth- and Sixth-Century North Africa \nAndy Merrills (University of Leicester) \nThe struggle for Africa: Local power brokers \nRoland Steinacher (Universität Tübingen) \n\n6pm Drink Reception in Staff Common Room followed by dinner at a local restaurant for speakers \n\nSaturday\, IAS Common Ground\, UCL Main Building\, Gower Street\, London \n  \n10-12pm: Identifying the Imamate: State Building and Society in the Age of the Rustamids \nCyrille Aillet (Université Lumière Lyon 2) \nBerbers and Borderlands: Rulership\, Authority and City-building in Islamic Morocco \nCorisande Fenwick (UCL) \n\n12.00- 1:30 Lunch \n  \n1:30-3.30pm \nLes Banû Yahrâsan\, figures politiques et sacrées de l’ibadisme à Djerba \nVirginie Prevost (Université Libre de Bruxelles) \nFact\, Fiction and Polemic in the Study of the Almoravid and Almohad empires \nAmira Bennison (University of Cambridge) \n\n3:30 – 4 Coffee Break \n\n4-4:50   The role of climatic modulations in the economic\, social and political reorganization of Maghreb al-Asqa at the time of the emergence of the Islamic emirates (8th-9th centuries). \nChloe Capel (UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée) \n4:50-.    Authority Beyond the State: A Response. \nAndrew Marsham (University of Cambridge) \n\n5:20-6pm. Final Discussion \n6pm Drink Reception followed by dinner at a local restaurant for speakers
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/berbers-and-moors-authority-beyond-state-and-tribe-in-the-early-medieval-maghreb/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180524T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T100000
DTSTAMP:20180521T161019Z
CREATED:20180521T161019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T161019Z
UID:10000984-1527123600-1527242400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems
DESCRIPTION:Location: Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati (Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law) \nCoordinators: Said Arjomand (Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies)\, Nathan J. Brown (Institute of Middle East Studies) \n\nProgramme:\nFinal programme.pdf \n\n\n\nDescription of the meeting\n\nUnderstanding the intellectual\, sociological\, and political aspects of law in the Middle East has been hampered by an unfortunate and outmoded disciplinary divide. Social scientists—chiefly in the fields of political science\, sociology\, and some legal studies—have focused much of their attention on modern structures\, probing how laws are written\, courts are structured and adjudicate\, citizens litigate\, and regimes deploy law as an instrument. Scholars from these disciplines often encounter intellectual approaches\, doctrines\, and ideas that are deeply rooted historically\, many (but not all) of a religious provenance\, with a strong influence of the scholarship on Islamic law. These disciplines stress generalization at the expense of diversity and causal inference at the expense of path dependency. But they are often less well equipped to go beyond a fairly superficial understanding of history and doctrine\, as even those scholars who are friendly to such subjects are entirely reliant on secondary sources. \nAt the same time\, those who approach law from an area studies viewpoint or from various disciplines more anchored in the humanities and more interpretive social sciences (such as religious studies\, history\, and anthropology) excel with the study of texts\, intellectual history\, legal thought\, and the premodern period. But the questions they ask tend to be resistant to generalization and comparative analysis; and when they do make forays into the modern period (as anthropology does)\, it is generally to develop rich but highly contextualized understanding. \nOur aim in this workshop is to bring together a group of scholars who have made individual forays toward bridging this gap in a more comprehensive and collaborate effort aiming at understanding the politics and sociology of law in the modern Middle East. In designing this workshop\, we are reaching out to a range of scholars—fairly senior figures\, middle-generation academics\, and some at the beginning of their careers. We have also worked to cover the entire region and to draw on academics who have been trained in a variety of locations (North America\, Europe\, and the Middle East). \nWe have selected participants not simply for the quality and focus of their individual research but also for their demonstrated interest and ability at working across disciplinary\, historical\, and geographical divides. We intend to draw heavily on a workshop format to ensure cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches and produce a coherent set of essays on the history\, politics and sociology of law in the Middle East\, while collaboratively elaborating a comparative analytical framework for doing so. This comparative framework for the analysis of Middle Eastern legal systems will\, eo ipso\, also be more broadly comparative in that it will engage with theoretical concepts whose empirical grounding is in the historical experience of Western political and legal evolution. \nTo what extent do classical understandings of law inform current practice? Is the Islamic legal heritage the only approach with pre-modern roots that has influence today? How has the nature of law\, legal authority\, and statecraft evolved?  Some implicit answers to these fundamental questions will be built into the design and comparative framework of the workshop. We shall consider axiomatic the fundamental historical fact of ethico-legal pluralism in the Islamicate civilization. Macrosociologically\, the notion of “Islamic law” is highly problematic. There is of course the highly elaborate Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) whose evolution is fairly well understood\, as is its primary consequence of dividing the Muslim world into four major Sunni and major sectarian Shi`ite and Kharijite Rites or Schools of Law. What is impossible to maintain historically is the system of Islamic jurisprudence currently called the “Shari`a law” was ever tantamount to the public or constitutional law of any Muslim kingdom or empire. Historically\, the legal systems of Muslim kingdoms and empires were thoroughly pluralistic. Once again\, it is only the religious aspect of this legal pluralism\, as exemplified by the Ottoman millet system\, which has received any attention in the Middle Eastern legal scholarship. The historically decisive pluralism of the legal order\, resting on the Persianate tradition of political ethic and statecraft as well as Turko-Mongolian legal tradition of public dynastic law have never been systematically integrated with Islamic jurisprudence to produce a historically adequate and convincing picture of Perso-Turkic Islamicate legal systems of pre-modern Middle East. It is the goal of our workshop to do so as a step toward a macrosociology of law in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nFor more information:\n\nMalen Gordoa Mendizabal \n\nIISJ (Meetings)\nAvenida de la Universidad\, 8\nApartado 28\n20560 Oñati (Gipuzkoa) – Spain\nT: +34 943 71… Ver teléfono\nF: +34 943 78… Ver fax\nE: malen@iisj.es\nTwitter: @MalenIISJ
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-historical-and-comparative-macrosociology-of-middle-eastern-legal-systems/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180601
DTSTAMP:20180504T202919Z
CREATED:20180504T202919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T202919Z
UID:10000822-1527724800-1527811199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP: Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways 1950s-2010s
DESCRIPTION:Over the last half century\, discourses and practices connected to the idea that violent or dictatorial pasts should be marked as criminal have proliferated. A variety of actors – from victims groups to social movements\, to expert groups such as lawyers\, museums specialists and even economists – have contributed to the emergence and circulation of the notion that political violence could only be overcome through its criminalization in courts\, lustration procedures\, history writing\, activism or memorial sites. Produced across different fields of action and expertise\, this assumption has become dominant in the political and judicial sphere at a global level and has permeated many political cultures and everyday life practices.  Even where decriminalisation (amnesties\, pardons\, closure of archives) prevailed\, debates worked within the set of assumptions about the past established through this globally expanding paradigm. \nDespite its dominance\, we still lack a truly international history of its roots. This is in part because modern day practices of criminalisation often play down their own historicity. Coming of age at the so-called ‘end of history’\, their promoters came to see their application as a natural end point in the achievement of human rights\, democracy or good governance.  When histories are offered\, they too often provide a rather linear narrative that links these developments to – mainly Western – political processes established to address the legacies of Nazism after World War Two. Such accounts have also commonly resisted incorporation into broader frameworks supplied\, for example\, by histories of globalization\, neoliberalism or postcolonialism.  Only recently have a few authors sought to make sense of the emergence of the modern criminalisation paradigm in new ways\, connecting it\, for example\, to the rise of the homo economicus and a concomitant individualistic approach to human rights. \nThis conference seeks to explore the history of the (often forgotten) pathways and contested visions through which the criminalization paradigm developed. This conference welcomes contributions that explore the emergence of multiple\, potentially competitive visions of criminal pasts. Taking as its starting point the moment of an acceleration of decolonisation\, globalisation and de-Stalinisation in the 1950s\, we encourage papers that explore the variety of actors\, activisms and political projects that lay behind the global expansion of such ideas. Human rights organisations\, international legal associations\, post-colonial and Communist states\, all variously developed the idea of overcoming criminal pasts as they sought\, to legitimate new political projects\, reconceptualise the relationship between the individual and the state\, or seek collective or socio-economic justice for past wrongs. We welcome papers that\, for example\, address the complexity and interplay of these ideas in different arenas and seek to connect these phenomena to wider literatures. We are also wary of easy teleologies\, and are as interested in the histories of the marginalization of some visions\, as in the growing dominance of others. \nPapers might address the following topics: \nHistoricisation. How did processes of criminalisation/decriminalisation of fascism\, authoritarianism\, colonialism\, communism\, and other violent historical episodes evolve over time? What were their political/ideological roots and consequences\, and how did they influence each other? Which particular paradigms of criminalisation were internationalised or globalised from the 1950s? What turning points can we identify in the shift of these paradigms at international and regional levels (e.g. decolonisation in the 1960s\, the end of Cold War)? \nRethinking Paradigms. Are there new historical frameworks into which the history of criminalising violent pasts could be written? The history of neoliberalism? Or postcolonialism? Should it bring together traditions of scholarship\, which have often remained separate? (e.g. postcolonialism and communism; histories of the ‘semi-periphery’ with those from ‘the West’). \nRethinking ‘Third Wave Criminalisation’ (1980s-). How might these multiple histories help us understand the values and practices of ‘third wave criminalisation’ in new ways?  Which groups and alliances helped produce this? Were alternative visions of historical culpability marginalised\, or did they survive? Does such a historicisation enable us more fully to appreciate the variety of visions and practices that constitute this recent criminalisation paradigm? \nRethinking Actors. How did states\, social movements\, peace keepers\, or experts produce ideas about what should be criminalised and in which ways? How did actors generally unrecognised – such as socialist and other authoritarian states\, or professional groups such as economists –produce and globalise new paradigms? Do we over-privilege the role of western actors in this account? How do relevant actors change over time? (e.g. from states to non-state actors including private individuals and companies)? \nRethinking Chronologies. How did the meanings\, relevance and objects of criminalisation shift over time? How were specific crimes selected as subject to criminalisation at particular moments\, which were sidelined\, and why? How are the processes of criminalisation linked to processes of politicization or de-politicisation of past conflicts and violence? Was there a move from collective/ systemic criminalisation to one based around the idea of individual crime and responsibility? \nAbstracts of 300-500 words\, together with an accompanying short CV should be submitted to criminalisingviolentpasts@gmail.com  by 31 May 2018. The selected participants will be notified by the end of June 2018. Financial support for travel and accommodation is available\, but we ask that contributors also explore funding opportunities at their home institutions. \nThis conference is supported by the AHRC “Care for the Future” (UK) and Labex “Les Passés dans Le Présent” (FR) joint funded project The Criminalization of Dictatorial Pasts in Europe and Latin America in Global Perspective. \nhttps://criminalizationofdictatorialpasts.wordpress.com/ \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-criminalising-violent-pasts-multiple-roots-and-forgotten-pathways-1950s-2010s/
CATEGORIES:Applications,Call for papers,conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180610
DTSTAMP:20171012T214311Z
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SUMMARY:The IX Islamic Legal Studies Conference\, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS)
DESCRIPTION:The conference will be divided into two parts. In the first\, which will take place in Helsinki on June 6\, a keynote address and an invited panel of five speakers will present on “Islamic Law and the Relationship between Ruler and Ruled.” The keynote will be given by Frank Vogel (Harvard Law School)\, who will explore Sharia doctrine regarding legal status of the governed. It will be followed by a panel made up of Lena Salaymeh (Tel Aviv University)\, Christian Müller (CNRS\, Paris)\, Rob Gleave (University of Exeter)\, Evgenia Kermeli (Haceteppe University\, Ankara)\, and Mulki al-Sharmani (University of Helsinki)\, who will each present case studies from different periods evidencing the shaping and reconstituting of subjecthood in legal practice. \nThe second part\, which will take place in Tampere over two-and-a-half days\, will consist of twenty diverse presentations divided among five panels.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-ix-islamic-legal-studies-conference-convened-by-the-international-society-for-islamic-legal-studies-isils/
LOCATION:Universities of Helsinki and Tampere\, Finland\, Finland
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180611
DTSTAMP:20180301T174534Z
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UID:10000970-1528329600-1528675199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Annual Meeting on Law and Society: Toronto 2018
DESCRIPTION:For thousands of years the place where the City of Toronto is located has been a crossroad where many peoples have met and had fruitful exchanges. According to some Indigenous knowledge keepers\, the word “Toronto” comes from the Wendat term for a fishing weir constructed of sticks standing in the water. Lake and river fishing has been an important activity for the area’s many Indigenous peoples\, including Huron-Wendat\, Haudenosaunee\, Mississauga and Chippewa. The Indigenous knowledge frameworks and laws of the peoples of this area encourage a multilayered understanding of an item such as a fishing weir in terms of its natural\, sacred\, practical and social meanings. \nThe area continues to be home to many Indigenous people from all over Canada and beyond\, but Toronto has also been shaped by immigration flows from many parts of the world\, with about half of its current residents being born outside of Canada. \nThe Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association hope that our joint meeting in Toronto will be creative and fruitful\, in keeping with the traditional use of this land as a gathering place\, and that visitors to the area will take the opportunity to make new connections not only with one another but also with diverse local communities.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/annual-meeting-on-law-and-society-toronto-2018/
LOCATION:Sheraton Centre\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180627
DTSTAMP:20180504T202454Z
CREATED:20180504T202454Z
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UID:10000821-1529863200-1530035999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:University of Cape Town Course :: Muslim Marriage Contracts
DESCRIPTION:This two-day course will unpack the legal implications of the Muslim marriage contract by considering: \n\nA brief historical context relating to the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa\nA synopsis of the legal implications of the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa\nAn analysis of South African case law that recognises the Muslim marriage as a contract and its legal implications\nThe significance of imams being registered as marriage officers under the Marriage Act 25 of 1961\nThe way in which Muslim marriage contracts can be drafted as ante-nuptial contracts in a way that is consistent with Islamic law and South African civil law.\n\nThe course will include a component that will provide attendees an opportunity to practice drafting a Muslim marriage contract. \nMuslim marriage Contracts UCT 2018 Course Full Details
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/university-of-cape-town-course-muslim-marriage-contracts/
LOCATION:University of Cape Town
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,courses
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180628
DTSTAMP:20180626T212748Z
CREATED:20180626T212748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T212748Z
UID:10000986-1530036000-1530122399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Double Talk “Female Judges – Experiences\, Successes and Challenges in Palestine and Germany”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will combine the talks of two experts on law and gender: Judge Somoud Al-Damiri (Palestine) and Prof. Maria Wersig (Germany) Since 2009\, Judge Somoud al-Damiri is one of the first female Muslim judges working in sharīʿa courts in the Middle East. At the same time\, she is public prosecutor in family law in Ramallah. Professor Maria Wersig is a German Professor of law in social work at the University of Applied Science in Dortmund. Her work focuses on law and gender and anti-discrimination legislation. Both will assess the role of female judges in their legal orders and the question of anti-discrimination for women.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/double-talk-female-judges-experiences-successes-and-challenges-in-palestine-and-germany/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180630
DTSTAMP:20180626T213019Z
CREATED:20180626T213019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T213019Z
UID:10000988-1530122400-1530295199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Uses of the Past: Islamic International Law and the Problem of Translation
DESCRIPTION:The work­shop is orga­ni­zed as a coope­ra­tion bet­ween Prof. Dr. Irene Schnei­der\, Dr. Nijmi Edres\, Prof. Dr. Jens Hans­sen\, Semi­nar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft\, Göt­tin­gen Uni­ver­sity and Dr. Nahed Samour\, Lichtenberg-Kolleg\, Göt­tin­gen\, Insti­tute of Advan­ced Study\, in the frame of the activi­ties of the HERA pro­ject Under­stan­ding Sharīʿah: Past Per­fect\, Imper­fect Pre­sent www.usppip.eu.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-uses-of-the-past-islamic-international-law-and-the-problem-of-translation/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180705
DTSTAMP:20180626T213441Z
CREATED:20180626T213441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T213441Z
UID:10000989-1530468000-1530727199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Course: Digital Islamic Humanities
DESCRIPTION:The three-day intensive course in Digital Islamic Humanities is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be offered by Dr Maxim Romanov (Universität Wien) and will be held immediately before the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Ghent University\, in collaboration with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (July 2-4\, 2018). The course will be demanding and hands-on in its format\, but no previous training is required. The course will cover topics such as digitization\, computational analysis\, datamodelling\, etc.\, and will introduce digital tools\, projects\, repositories and practices that are currently available for historical/Islamic/Mamluk research. The Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies wiill immediately follow.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/course-digital-islamic-humanities/
LOCATION:Ghent University\, Ghent\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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