ILSS: Marion Katz
Posted on March 02, 2023On Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Marion Katz (New York University) gave a talk on her recent publication Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics […]
Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law
Posted on November 13, 2022On November 1, 2022, via Zoom, we convened a live Roundtable on the History of Islamic International Law. Organized by Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School) and Umut Özsu (Carleton University), who are editing […]
Mairaj Syed, “Experiments in Searching for Islam’s Universal Canons on the CnC-Qayyim Platform” – SHARIAsource Lab 2022
Posted on November 13, 2022On Wednesday, October 26th, Professor Mairaj Syed (UC Davis) presented “Experiments in Searching for Islam’s Universal Canons on the CnC-Qayyim Platform” as part of our Courts and Canons (CnC) Working […]
Sarah Bowen Savant, “Ibn ʿAsākir and His History of Damascus: Named Entity Recognition and Text Reuse” – SHARIAsource Lab 2022
Posted on November 13, 2022On Tuesday September 27, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST, Sarah Bowen Savant (Aga Khan University), led a seminar on research in progress that uses the OpenITI corpus, which corpus contains […]
Dilyara Agisheva, Ukraine from Ottoman Times to Today, W’OTSAp
Posted on October 05, 2022On Friday, September 30th, PIL Research Fellow, Dilyara Agisheva, presented “The Making of Colonial Space in Crimea in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries” at the Ottoman and Turkish Studies […]
Professor Intisar Rabb, Islamic and Criminal Law in Medieval and Modern Times
Posted on June 30, 2022On June 30, 2021, PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb presented a lecture on Islamic criminal law in medieval and modern times. Her lecture is a comparative review of the history […]
Professor Intisar Rabb, “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism at SCOTUS and in Islamic Law”
Posted on June 30, 2022On April 13, 2022 at 3:50- 5:00 pm (EST), PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb presented the Irving Tragen Lecture on Comparative Law at UC Berkeley Law titled “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism […]
ILSS: Irene Schneider
Posted on May 12, 2022On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Irene Schneider (Göttingen University) spoke about her new book, “Debating the Law, Creating Gender: Sharia and Lawmaking in Palestine” (Brill, 2021). […]
ILSS: Issam Eido
Posted on April 01, 2022On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, Professor Issam Eido (Vanderbilt University) presented “Pre-Canonical Islamic Legal Canons: An Analysis of Early Hanafi Literature” as part of our Islamic Law Speaker Series. Eido […]
ILSS: Hedayat Heikal
Posted on March 03, 2022On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Dr. Hedayat Heikal presented “Inheritance versus Personal Status: Shifting National Strategies in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia.” Heikal argued that […]