September Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of September! This  newsletter takes a look at our fall events, a series on the life and legacy of Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, including a festschrift published in his honor, last month’s guest blog editor, and more!

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August Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of August! This  newsletter takes a look back at our last academic year, as well as a look forward to this one. Features include events, primary sources, and blog posts.

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July Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of July! This  newsletter takes a look at our incoming PIL-LC Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year, an interview with the Islamic Law Writing Prize winner, last month’s guest blog editor, and more!

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June Newsletter

We are pleased to announce the publication of the fifth issue of the open-access, peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Law, a special issue titled “Governing Islam: Law and the State in the Modern Age.”

We invite you to digitally explore the fifth issue which explores the interplay of the norms of governance and Islamic law in Muslim societies, historically, from the eighteenth to late twentieth centuries, right at the moment when Western colonial powers arose to assert hegemony over the Muslim world. These four essays engage scholarly debates about continuities as well as discontinuities between historical and modern Islamic political–legal paradigms for state laws in imperial, colonial, and postcolonial contexts. Within this debate lies the opportunity to reexamine the modern legacies of early Islamic norms for law and governance as they intersected and diverged in novel ways.

This special issue includes an introduction by this Special Issue’s Editor and current PIL-LC Research Fellow, Mohammed Allehbi (Harvard Law School), and essays by Nihat Celik (San Diego State University), Melike Batgiray Abboud (Max Planck Institute), Omar Gebril (Columbia University), and Ovamir Anjum (University  of  Toledo), that investigate the processes by which Muslim and non-Muslim state officials and intellectuals expanded, distorted, and otherwise molded notions of Islamic law and governance under the Ottoman Empire, British colonialism, and the modern state. Each author’s conclusions highlight imperial and local actors’ inventiveness and agency in formulating law and governance in Muslim countries.

May Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of May! This  newsletter takes a look at the Islamic Law Writing Prize winner, 2003 Constitution and Amendments of Palestine, Maritime Laws in the Syro-Palestinian Coastal Frontiers, last month’s guest blog editor, and more!

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April Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of April! This  newsletter takes a look at Youcef L. Soufi‘s (University of Toronto) book talk as part of our Islamic Law Speaker Series, recently added an excerpt from the appendix titled “Uṣūl al-Karkhī with Translation” in Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee’s Islamic Legal Maxims (Advanced Legal Studies Institute, 2013), a report on the SHARIAsource Lab’s progress this academic year,  last month’s guest blog editor, and more!

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March Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of March! This  newsletter takes a look at the Roundtable on Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States, recently added sources on Ottoman land law, a spotlight on our current research fellow, Professor Fatma Gül Karagöz,  last month’s guest blog editor, and more!

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February Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of February! This  newsletter takes a look at the Roundtable on Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States, the recent judgment in the case EB v. ER (2023) by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, commentary on the recognition and regulation of Muslim family law in South Africa,  last month’s guest blog editor, and more!

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January Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of January! This special edition newsletter takes a look at our Spring calendar of events, a fellow spotlight of  our current PIL-LC Research Fellow, Dr. Mohammed Allehbi, recently added documents to our portal on Islamic Criminal Justice, last month’s guest blog editor, and more!

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December Newsletter

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of December! This special edition newsletter takes a look back at what we’ve been up to in 2023. 

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