2025-2026 Fellowships Following We are excited to announce the call for applications for our annual fellowships. This year we are looking for not just one, but two fellows to join our community for the 2025-2026 academic year! We invite applications for the PIL–LC Research Fellowship and a Senior Research Fellowship. Applications are now open, with an earlier submission deadline of January 15, 2025 for the PIL-LC Research Fellowship and January 31, 2025 for the Senior Research Fellowship. Notifications will go out by February 15, 2025. 

CONTENT: Islamic Law and Zoroastrianism  One aim of SHARIAsource is to provide access to primary and secondary sources of Islamic law to support research on salient issues of Islamic law and history. Here is an excerpt from Ibn Rushd’s (d. 520/1126) al-Bayān wa-l-taḥsīl wa-l-sharḥ wa-al-tawjīh wa-l-taʿlīl fī masāʾil al-Mustakhraja (Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1984) in which he reviews the prohibition of cross-confessional testimony. He clarifies that cross-confessional testimony is specifically forbidden between Christian and Jews, due to the historical presence of enmity between the groups, but is generally permissible in other cases such as among Zoroastrians. This source is part of the Online Companion to the book Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts (Harvard University Press: ILSP 2017)—a collection of sources and other material used in and related to the book.  Explore this source today!

CONTEXT: Islamic Law Speaker Series  Last month, Professor Recep Senturk (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) gave a book talk on his forthcoming publication, Ādamiyyah: An Islamic Approach to Universal Human Rights (Usul Academy Press, 2025) as part of our Islamic law speaker series. The presentation explored the concept of Ādamiyya and Huqūq al-Ādamiyyīn in Islamic law and its implications in practice from the time of Prophet Muhammad, His Predecessors, the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, Andalusia and the Islamic rule in India. Professor Senturk discussed how the concept of Ādamiyya was used in relation to non-Ahl al-Kitāb people such as Buddhists, Hindus, and Zoroastrians under Islamic rule. He argued that the universalistic view of Islamic law based on the concept of Ādamiyya went into eclipse with the rise of nation states in the Muslim and it needs to be revived again.Watch the video today!