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 …
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 …
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, Boston University, Brandeis University, Fitchburg State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stonehill College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. While the conference will take place …
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 more details, see here.
“This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions.” This year’s theme is “transgressions.” “We interpret “transgressions” broadly, including the notions of access, trespass, and desire. Accordingly, …
The Committee on Medieval Studies invites applications for its Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, which offers qualified students in Harvard College the opportunity to work closely with scholars across the disciplines on research projects and initiatives. Unlike research assistants in most other departments, Research Fellows are employed directly by the Committee on Medieval Studies, and work …
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 …
Session 9 (26 June 2024, 18h CET) Surveying and documentation of the archaeological city of Barca (Al-Marj), Naser Alharari (Department of Antiquities, Benghazi, Libya) Link on demand at: [email protected]
From the organizers: As part of the Copyright in Islamic Law Project, we are in the process of arranging a symposium entitled “Symposium on Copyright in Islamic Legal Tradition“. The event is scheduled to be held in Istanbul on the dates of June 28-29, 2024. The central objective of this symposium is to convene a diverse …
From the organizers: Subject Fields: Law and Legal History ASLH Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2024 The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) is delighted to announce a new virtual initiative – the Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop – designed to provide support and intellectual community to early …
ISILS invites paper proposals for its eleventh Islamic Legal Studies conference, to be held at the University of Münster, 22-24 May 2025. The Third International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held at Harvard University Law School in May 2000, was devoted to the madhhab. 25 years later, we want to revisit this topic: what impact has the scholarly debate …
Please submit applications at this form by June 30 (including an abstract of maximum 300 words). Participants will be selected based on the following criteria: Relevance to the symposium theme. Novel contribution to the study of evidence, proof, and/or procedure in Islamic legal contexts. Potential to address broader questions in Islamic and Islamic legal studies. …
Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce the 2024 iteration of its biennial prize for the best dissertation on the medieval Middle East (roughly 500–1500 CE). In an effort to recognize excellent doctoral research in the field, MEM will award this prize at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), to be …
