On January 27, 2021, Murteza Bedir (Istanbul University) presented “Form, Function, and Historical Development of Uṣūl al-fiqh as a Genre.” He discussed the theoretical sciences, structure, and organization of the […]
On Monday, February 22, 2021, Reza Takhshid presented “NLP for Lawyers and Islamic Law Scholars” as part of our Islamic Law, Data Science, and AI Lab. Machine learning and natural […]
On March 8, 2021, Zahra Moballegh (University of Tehran) presented “Beyond God the Commander: Data Analysis Uncovering the Narrator God and Reconstructing an Islamic Narrative Theology.” She explained the results of […]
On March 22, 2021, Ahmet Faruk Çelik (Marmara University) and Taha Emre presented “AI for Comparing and Understanding Ottoman Fatwa Collections.” Fatwa collections are the corpora compiled from Ottoman Shaykhal-Islāms. […]
On February 23, 2021, Sohaib Baig (Harvard Law School) presented in our Islamic Law Speaker Series. In his talk titled “Towards a Transregional History of Sunni Legal Pluralism: Indian Hanafis […]
On March 23, 2021, Issam Eido (Vanderbilt University) presented in our Islamic Law Speaker Series. In his talk titled “Early Ḥanafī Approaches to Islamic Legal Interpretation, 3rd/9th – 4th/10th Century,” […]
The Program in Islamic Law hosted a live webinar to conclude and discuss the various contributions to the Roundtable on Islamic Legal History and Historiography! The Live Roundtable, which took place […]
On November 12, 2020, Elias Saba (Grinnell College, Senior Lecturer, Departments of History and Religious Studies) spoke on his new book Harmonizing Similarities: A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic […]
On December 7, 2020, Nathan Spannaus (University of Jyväskylä) spoke about his new book Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism (Oxford University Press, 2019). […]
On October 20, 2020, Elizabeth Urban (West Chester University) spoke about her new book Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers (Edinburgh University Press, […]
