July Newsletter
Posted on July 14, 2021The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of July! Content includes our new issue of the Journal of Islamic Law, which includes in the main Journal two articles, by Sohaira Z Siddiqui and Tobias Scheunchen, and a case brief by Thomas Francis on recent developments and scholarship in Islamic family law; a set of student notes by Cem Tecimer, Ari Schriber and Limeng Sun comment on primary source materials on the status of the Hagia Sophia museum-turned-mosque in Turkey, questions of pandemics and plague in 19th-century Morocco, and regulation of Uyghurs in China, respectively; a Forum featuring selected essays from the Islamic Law Blog’s Roundtable on Islamic Law & Legal History, with contributions from Intisar Rabb, Maribel Fierro, Marina Rustow, Ersilia Francesca, Najam Haider, Marion Katz, Haider Hamoudi, Joseph Lowry, Bogac Ergene, Metin Cosgel, and Hiroyuki Yanagihashi. It also features a recent presentation on our Courts and Canons database from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the recent lectures in our monthly Islamic Legal Genres series, blog contributions from last month’s guest editor, Professor Ayman Shabana, and much more!
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