SHARIAsource @Harvard_Law is a digital portal for Islamic law texts+data science tools. For commentary check out @ISLAMICLAWblog via the Program in Islamic Law
Cambridge, MA
Joined November 2015
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We are please to announce the publication of the seventh volume of the open-access, peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Law!
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Join us on Tuesday, April 7th at 12:30-1:30PM US EST where Professor Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California) will give a talk on his publication The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press, 2023)!
Registration is required.
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Join us on Tuesday 11 for a talk @Harvard on my new book “The Life of Shari’a” published with @ucpress Zoom registration link below
Join us on Tuesday, November 11th at 12:30PM EST via Zoom, where Youssef Belal will present “Thinking the World with Islamic Knowledges” from his book The Life of Shari’a: A Comparative Anthropology of Law (UCP, 2025).
Registration is required.
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The new special issue of the Journal of Islamic Law examines the contested legacy of ḥudūd in Islamic criminal law, featuring 8 contributions that examine a range of Muslim-majority contexts including Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.
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Next Tuesday, I will be speaking online about my next book, which discusses Arabic and how text reuse built a world tradition. Please do join. pil.law.harvard.edu/ilss-sar…
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A new series of essays on Islamic law and AI is out: One new essay every week. The first is an intro by @ProfessorMairaj and me on the difference between AI and the Book—complete with a 15-min AI-generated podcast on the essays to come for those who like to listen … 📿🦾📚
We're excited to announce the Islamic Law Blog's Roundtable on Islamic Law and AI!
Read the introduction titled "The Book and AI: How Artificial Intelligence is and is not Changing Islamic Law" written by Professors Intisar Rabb and Mairaj Syed today!
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We're excited to announce the Islamic Law Blog's Roundtable on Islamic Law and AI!
Read the introduction titled "The Book and AI: How Artificial Intelligence is and is not Changing Islamic Law" written by Professors Intisar Rabb and Mairaj Syed today!
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This week, we’re showcasing a 19thC loose-leaf Qur’an from western Sudan. Unlike traditionally bound manuscripts, Sudanese Qur’ans are designed with a leather cover that wraps around the pages and is secured with a thong, allowing for easy handling and preservation.
#manuscriptmonday
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Here are our public offerings, all hosted via Zoom, for the spring semester (all events start next week, times in Eastern US); we'll be continuing two from last semester, and adding a third, OpenITI Open Hours, which will be more open and based on participant needs and interests:
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Happening next Tuesday, Feb 11th at 12:30pm via Zoom. Registration is required.
Will we be seeing you there?
Join us for our first event of the semester where Prof. Malika Zeghal, will give a book talk on her recent publication The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (PUP, 2024).
Registration is required.
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Join us for our first event of the semester where Prof. Malika Zeghal, will give a book talk on her recent publication The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (PUP, 2024).
Registration is required.
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What are some of the recent developments in Malaysia that spotlight sharīʿa, or Islamic law, in both its federal laws & in some state criminal laws and policies?
PIL Faculty Director, Prof. Intisar Rabb, explores these developments in her recent essay!
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Over the course of the past year, Lab members have worked to identify and annotate our collection of over 4,500 Islamic legal canons. This figure highlights the growth of the canons database over the last year.
Read more in this Year-End Lab Review!
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Last spring, we debuted the Courts and Canons (CnC) Annotation Suite of tools, which aid researchers to identify, tag, and count Islamic legal canons (qawāʿid fiqhiyya).
The two main tools are the Canons Tagger & Variants Matcher.
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We're excited to announce a second fellowship opportunity for the 2025-2026 year, a Senior Fellowship! See link for more details.
(due Jan. 31, 2025)
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We are excited to invite applications for the 2025-2026 PIL–LC Research Fellowship!
(due: January 15, 2025)
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Join us for a final PISC event next Thursday, on Ottoman science & Sufism, with Xiwen Yang of UC Davis! In-person & on Zoom—sign-up here: tinyurl.com/pisc2024. Hope to see you there!
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New data set for the author al-Nuwayri (d. 1333). I will discuss in A Cultural History of the Arabic Book (EUP, 2025/6). The PowerBI app helps to distinguish which source an Arabic writer might have used to create his own book, out of many possibilities. zenodo.org/records/13145269
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The Journal of Islamic Law invites papers for a Special Issue on "Moratoriums on Islamic Criminal Punishments: Legal Debates and Current Practices."
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First event of Fall 2024 with @Lit_as_Adab: we’re gatecrashing some texts—join us! (tinyurl.com/pisc2024)
