BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Program in Islamic Law - ECPv6.6.4.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Program in Islamic Law REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20200220T002225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200220T170039Z UID:10001227-1582718400-1582722000@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Talk :: Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber Example DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Rosen\, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology Emeritus\, Princeton University.  \nTribes are characterized less by their structural forms and purported evolutionary history than by their cultural orientations and shape-shifting capability. In many parts of MENA and Asia these qualities have also contributed to tribes’ amalgamation of Islamic law. Using as the main example the Berbers of Morocco\, Professor Rosen will look at the parallels between local custom and Islamic prescription\, procedural techniques and substantive rules to consider how the two legal systems have indigitated and why\, from the Berbers’ perspective\, they regarded their approach as Islamic law rather than something set alongside Islamic law. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/lunch-talk-tribal-law-as-islamic-law-the-berber-example/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20190211T160532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T160532Z UID:10001086-1549454400-1549458000@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Talk :: Book Talk on Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard University Press\, 2017) DESCRIPTION:Author: Faiz Ahmed\, Associate Professor of History\, Brown University \nModerator: Mariam Sheibani\, Visiting Fellow\, Program in Islamic Law\, Harvard Law School \nRespondent: Malika Zeghal\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life \nIn Afghanistan Rising\, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of Afghanistan\, the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence\, codify its own laws\, and ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. He illustrates how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Kabul—far from being a landlocked wilderness or remote frontier—became a magnet for itinerant scholars and administrators shuttling between Ottoman and British imperial domains. Tracing the country’s longstanding but often ignored scholarly and educational ties to Baghdad\, Damascus\, and Istanbul as well as greater Delhi and Lahore\, Ahmed explains how the court of Kabul attracted thinkers eager to craft a modern state within the interpretive traditions of Islamic law and ethics\, or shariʿa\, and international norms of legality. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to PIL@law.harvard.edu. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/lunch-talk-book-talk-on-afghanistan-rising-islamic-law-and-statecraft-between-the-ottoman-and-british-empires-harvard-university-press-2017/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,PIL events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20181126T154148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T154148Z UID:10001053-1543406400-1543410000@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Between Legal Conservatism and Legal Change: Fault Lines in Ayyūbid Damascus DESCRIPTION:Mariam Sheibani\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School \nThis paper explores the tensions between conservative and innovative strains in Islamic law in twelfth-century Ayyūbid Damascus. The newly restored refugee capital of Damascus inherited the Shāfiʿī traditions of both Khurāsān and Iraq\, which had developed autonomously throughout the tenth and eleventh centuries. While formal attribution to the Khurāsānī and Iraqi streams of the school gradually ceased with the destruction of Khurāsān\, Sheibani argues that the intellectual legacies and distinct methodologies of each community vied for authority in Ayyūbid Damascus. She utilizes the rivalry between the leading Shāfiʿī authorities of Damascus\,  Taqī al-Dīn b. al-Ṣalāḥ (d. 1245) and ʿIzz al-Din b. ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 1262)\, as a window onto these competing trends within the Shāfiʿī legal school. The talk will also touch upon concerns about the intersection of Islamic theology\, legal theory and the substantive aims of legal maxims\, and the scope of Islamic legal reasoning (ijtihād). RSVP to shariasource@law.harvard.edu. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/shariasource-lunch-talk-between-legal-conservatism-and-legal-change-fault-lines-in-ayyubid-damascus/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180913T214614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180913T214614Z UID:10001039-1540209600-1540213200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Harvard Worldwide Week Event: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Book Talk on From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire\, Russia\, and International Law (Oxford University Press\, 2018) DESCRIPTION:Author: Will Smiley\, Assistant Professor\, University of New Hampshire \nModerator: Intisar Rabb\, Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Professor of History\, Harvard University\n \nRespondents: \nCemal Kafadar\, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies\, Harvard University \nMariam Sheibani\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School \nWill Smiley will discuss the research underlying his new book\, in which he charts the changing law and practice of captivity and slavery in the Ottoman Empire and Middle East\, at the intersection of Islamic and international law. The Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East\, but they also birthed a novel concept—the prisoner of war. In the eighteenth century\, the Ottoman state and its Russian rival\, through conflict and diplomacy\, worked out a new system of regional international law – replacing systems of ransom and enslavement with new rules that delineated sovereignty\, redefined individuals’ relationships to states\, and prioritized political identity over economic value. In the process\, the Ottomans marked out a parallel\, non-Western path toward elements of modern international law—not as a product of European imposition or imitation\, but with maintained commitments to Islamic law. For a time even European empires played by these rules before the codified global law of war in the late nineteenth century. This story offers new perspectives on the histories of the Ottoman and Russian Empires\, of slavery\, and of international law. *Organized in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs (OVPIA) as part of the Worldwide Week at Harvard University\, a week featuring a series of events that showcase Harvard’s global and comparative scholarship around the University. World Wide Week takes place between 22-26 October 2018. RSVP to shariasource@law.harvard.edu. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/world-wide-week-event-shariasource-lunch-talk-book-talk-on-from-slaves-to-prisoners-of-war-the-ottoman-empire-russia-and-international-law-cambridge-university-press-forthcoming-2019/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181002T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180913T213432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180913T213432Z UID:10001033-1538481600-1538485200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:SHARIASOURCE LUNCH TALK :: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF LEGAL PATCHWORKING (TALFĪQ) DESCRIPTION:Aaron Spevack\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nTalfīq–the juristic practice of combining differing legal opinions to resolve a new issue and thereby produce an unprecedented ruling–is often framed as an impious and capricious endeavor aimed at cutting corners. However\, jurists have used this practice in ways that have had tremendous social impact\, both positive and negative. This talk will address various debates on the permissibility of using talfiq\, its social impact\, and prominent instances of state legislation in which legislators in the modern Muslim world have used talfīq to serve the public good. RSVP to shariasource@law.harvard.edu. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/shariasource-lunch-talk-the-social-impact-of-legal-patchworking-talfiq/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181001T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180928T152924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180928T152924Z UID:10000843-1538395200-1538398800@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Islamic Law in an Age of Fear DESCRIPTION:Khaled M. Abou El Fadl\, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law\, UCLA School of Law\nDr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic law and Islam\, and a prominent scholar in the field of human rights. He is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches International Human Rights\, Islamic Jurisprudence\, National Security Law\, Law and Terrorism\, Islam and Human Rights\, Political Asylum and Political Crimes and Legal Systems. He is also the Chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/shariasource-lunch-talk-islamic-law-in-an-age-of-fear/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180924T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180913T212715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180913T212715Z UID:10001025-1537790400-1537794000@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Authority through Organization? Professionalization and Bureaucratization at Early Islamic Courts DESCRIPTION:Nahed Samour\, Early Career Fellow\, Lichtenberg-Kolleg\, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study\nThe talk focuses on the judge’s authority as it emanated from the judicial organization under the early Abbasids. It discusses the concept of office as well as theories of professionalization and bureaucratization and their applicability to the Islamic history of adjudication. \nDr. Nahed Samour is an Early Career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg\, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study\, Germany and pursues her Habilitation at the Humboldt University\, Berlin\, Faculty of Law. She has studied law and Islamic studies at the universities of Bonn\, Birzeit/Ramallah\, London (SOAS)\, Berlin (HU)\, Harvard\, Damascus and was a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt/Main. She clerked at the Court of Appeals in Berlin\, and held a post doc position at the Eric Castrén Institute of International law and Human Rights\, Helsinki University\, Finland. She was also Junior Faculty at Harvard Law School’s Institute of Global Law and Policy’s 2015 Workshop. Among her writings on early Islamic courts is “A Critique of Adjudication: Formative Moments in Early Islamic Legal History”\, Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale (eds.) Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts\, Cambridge\, MA: Harvard Islamic Legal Studies; Harvard University Press\, 2017\, pp. 44-66. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/shariasource-lunch-talk-authority-through-organization-professionalization-and-bureaucratization-at-early-islamic-courts/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T180000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180913T211823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180913T211823Z UID:10000832-1537286400-1537293600@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:SHARIAsource Open House DESCRIPTION:Come learn about the Islamic Legal Studies Program & SHARIAsource.com\, which offers content and context on Islamic law. SHARIAsource provides an Islamic law portal \, built in partnership with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society\, as well as a blog with regular and relevant commentary on new developments and new scholarship in Islamic law by leading scholars and students in the field. Meet the faculty\, staff\, and fellows involved in the project\, and see how you can get involved. Brief remarks by the director to commence at 4.30p.  Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to shariasource@law.harvard.edu. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/shariasource-open-house-2/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180327T232440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T232440Z UID:10000819-1525176000-1525179600@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Gentleman and a Scholar: Profile of an Ottoman Judge in the Late Sixteenth Century DESCRIPTION:Amir Toft’s talk profiles the education and career of a judge who served for one year around 1580 as judge in the court of Üsküdar\, one of the districts of Istanbul. His name and titles—Mevlana Ibrahim Çelebi Efendi el-Galatavi—are known to us only through their appearance in the court register for that year. Apart from that we know next to nothing directly about him. However\, thanks to the decades of work by Ottomanists\, we are able with reasonable certainty to reconstruct the path that he took to arrive at the Üsküdar court\, a relatively high position that only a few people in the Ottoman legal profession were qualified to reach. \nThe purpose of this talk\, as well as the project on which it draws\, is to provide more narrative depth to the historiography of early modern Ottoman law. The great bulk of Ottoman legal studies for that period pays heavy attention to bureaucratic administration and its most prominent figures. That emphasis\, while invaluable Toft’s own research\, has nevertheless come at the expense of two things: one is how Ottoman jurists received and adapted Islamic jurisprudence\, and the other is anything more than a thin description of the characters that drove the Ottoman legal system. This talk focuses in on the latter. Because most judges and other legal officials did not leave behind a literary output\, their names only show up in archival records and they look like faceless and wooden functionaries. This talk breathes a bit of life into one of these functionaries\, who would otherwise remain totally forgotten. \nAmir Toft is a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Thought in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His primary scholarly interests are in Islamic jurisprudence and Ottoman history\, with a view to understanding how institutions of law and government worked on the ground in premodern Islamic societies. His dissertation\, through the lens of homicide in late sixteenth-century Istanbul\, studies the Ottoman reception and application of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. During the 2017–18 academic year he has been a research fellow in the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-gentleman-and-a-scholar-profile-of-an-ottoman-judge-in-the-late-sixteenth-century/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180301T210918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T210918Z UID:10000814-1524744000-1524747600@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology DESCRIPTION:Early Islamic political theory as it enjoyed currency among the scholarly classes alternated between two possibilities: legal functionalism and political anthropology.  Critical to our understanding of these intellectual trends and their conceptual contours is an understanding of a “theoretical turn” in early Islamic thought which created the preconditions for a theory of power\, and the domain of its proper application between the political and the religious.  Codified forms of early Islamic political theory\, as well as those which went out of favor in subsequent generations have arguably less to do with a “tradition” of caliphal sovereignty than the nature of the intellectual resources available\, and in fact proceeded from the presumption of an absence of religiously normative state structures.  This presentation will attempt a non-teleological archaeology of aforementioned political theories within an diachronic discursive analysis from the 8th to the 11th centuries of the common era. \nRodrigo Adem is an ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow and Dumbarton Oaks College Fellow in Medieval Mediterranean History at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He studies pre-modern Muslim thought as an intellectual and social historian.  He is particularly interested in how scholarly networks mediated social and epistemic authority within the urban and political development of the Near East and Mediterranean over the 8th to 14th century.  He hopes to further current understanding of how paradigmatic scholarly traditions of law\, theology\, historiography\, philosophy\, mysticism\, and political thought came to be codified during this period\, and persist in key facets of Muslim thought to the present day. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20180301T210623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T210623Z UID:10000813-1523361600-1523365200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Comparing Waqf and Western Landed Trusts DESCRIPTION:Ebrahim Afsah\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\, will discuss his current research on a structured comparison between waqf and the Western institution of landed trust and the implications for Islamic administrative and public law. \nMediterranean lunch will be served. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk-comparing-waqf-and-western-landed-trusts/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20170921T205743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205743Z UID:10000850-1512388800-1512392400@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Adem\, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow\, Harvard Law School; College Fellow\, Harvard University Department of History URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20171114T165129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T165129Z UID:10000927-1511784000-1511787600@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing DESCRIPTION:Sharon Tai\, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi\, former MIT Media Lab Fellow\, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s collection of cases of Islamic law in U.S. Courts\, including cases of family law and religious accommodation. From there\, comparison of state courts with overall federal courts using computational text analysis methods allows for insights into whether there is consistency of themes and considerations between lower and upper court decisions. This can allow researchers to identify spots of bias\, sentiment\, and missing considerations that become future questions about the narrative created by U.S. Courts in dealing with Islamic law. Details. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-research-methods-studying-court-narratives-through-machine-learning-and-natural-language-processing/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20171112T174302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171112T174302Z UID:10000922-1510833600-1510837200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk: A History Without Gaps: Legal Maxims and the Evolution of Islamic Law DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mariam Sheibani\, PhD Candidate\, University of Chicago  \nThe emergence and functions of legal maxims in Islamic law remains an understudied field in Islamic legal history. Scholars have noted early interest in maxims in the tenth and eleventh centuries\, followed by a period of dormancy prior to the eruption of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. This has led some scholars to speak of a period of stagnation of the genre during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. I closely study the terminological and conceptual evolution of maxims in Shāfiʿī legal literature from the founding of the school in the ninth century to the emergence of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. Examining this evolution not only provides a history of maxims without gaps\, but it also offers unexpected insights about the significant role of maxims in negotiating jurists’ competing visions of the law\, in the consolidation of the legal schools and in legal practice inside and outside the courts. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-history-without-gaps-legal-maxims-and-the-evolution-of-islamic-law-2/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20171108T155933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T155933Z UID:10000921-1510833600-1510837200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A History Without Gaps: Legal Maxims and the Evolution of Islamic Law DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mariam Sheibani\, PhD Candidate\, University of Chicago \nMariam Sheibani surveys the terminological and conceptual evolution of maxims in Shāfiʿī legal literature from the founding of the school in the ninth century to the emergence of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. Examining this evolution not only provides a history of maxims without gaps\, but it also offers unexpected insights about the significant role of maxims in negotiating jurists’ competing visions of the law. \nMediterranean lunch will be provided. \nRSVP by emailing shariasource@law.harvard.edu URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-history-without-gaps-legal-maxims-and-the-evolution-of-islamic-law/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20170921T205652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205652Z UID:10000848-1510574400-1510578000@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: THE M WORD: LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF MUSLIM IDENTITY IN THE U.S. DESCRIPTION:Seval Yildirim\, Visiting Researcher\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nProfessor Yildirim will discuss her work-in-progress exploring the legal construction of Muslim identity through a study of U.S. court cases dating back to the 19th century. The paper identifies three distinct typologies of how courts have defined Muslim identity and the broader political and normative implications of legal construction of minority identities in the United States. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-the-m-word-legal-constructions-of-muslim-identity-in-the-u-s/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20170921T205523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205523Z UID:10000846-1508760000-1508763600@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT DESCRIPTION:Ahmed El Shamsy\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nThe publication of al-Shāfiʿī’s (d. 204/820) multivolume magnum opus\, al-Umm\, in 1903-7 opened a window into early Islamic legal thought and provided the basis for all subsequent historiography of Islamic law. However\, the work’s publication was anything but inevitable: though it is today considered a seminal text\, in the late nineteenth century the Umm\, like the writings of most other early jurists\, languished in obscurity. Examining how and why the Umm was published thus offers surprising insights into the state of Islamic legal literature in the early twentieth century and its relationship to its long history.  URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-resurrecting-the-ancient-jurists-in-print/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20170921T205358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205358Z UID:10000844-1508500800-1508504400@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: Mapping Islam in Constitutions DESCRIPTION:Dawood Ahmed\, SJD Candidate\, University of Chicago\nDawood Ahmed will discuss his work on comparative Islamic constitutionalism. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-mapping-islam-in-constitutions/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T152802 CREATED:20170921T202855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T202855Z UID:10000836-1506081600-1506085200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: Family Law Reform in Pakistan: Recent Opinions (Fatwās) Favoring Women-Initiated Divorce DESCRIPTION:Mubasher Hussain\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nMubasher Hussain will discuss scholar-jurists’ views on the options for marriage dissolution available to Muslim women in Pakistan. This talk will explore the arguments in favor of women-initiated divorce\, as articulated in several recent leading advisory opinions (fatwās) from certain textualist jurists in Pakistan. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-family-law-reform-in-pakistan-recent-opinions-fatwas-favoring-women-initiated-divorce/ LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR