This one-day workshop is held under the auspices of the USPPIP project (Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present) and will be hosted by the University of Exeter. The workshop will cover the specific focus of two elements of the project – violence (studied by Exeter USPPIP research team) and governance (studied by the Bergen USPPIP …
This two day workshop aims to investigate questions of Islamic law and sexuality, broadly conceived, including but not limited to such subjects as il/legitimate sex, communal perceptions of sexuality, marriage, sexual violence, gender, concubinage and sexual consent. We are interested in shifting patterns of argumentation and in the formation of legal categories; how did pre-modern …
Call for Applications The Understanding Shari`a Project is organising an all-expenses paid summer school for the 7-14th July on the project theme of 'uses of the past' in Islamic Law, to be hosted by the University of Exeter. The deadline for applications is February 28th. Anyone in the final 18 months of their PhD, or within …
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 …
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 …
