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
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.
https://t.co/qvXkAuPfZY
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.
https://t.co/qvXkAuPfZY
Join us next month on April 16th at 12pm EST via Zoom for the Roundtable on Knowledge in the Islamic Court which will conclude the series of essays on the @ISLAMICLAWblog!
Registration is required.
https://t.co/pqnCkFRmvc
If you missed Professor Sohaira Siddiqui's ILSS talk last month, you're in luck because the recording is now available online!
Watch the video today!
https://t.co/sz7q0T62qb
“Women’s inheritance rights in Pakistan are protected by law and Islam, yet social pressure forces many to waive property, creating a pattern of silent disinheritance.”
Read more in our recent roundup!
https://t.co/B2Qlu9m6Jt
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is Bahadin Kerborani's “Short Introduction to Kurdish Online Resources” which compiles a list of “online primary and secondary Kurdish resources and collections.” #FieldGuideFridays
https://t.co/tIU7sBdXK8
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the BADR project which "includes 43 texts, around 700,000 words, and several tens of thousands of encoded named entities" extracted from al-Maktaba al-Shamela and the OpenITI repository. #FieldGuideFridays
https://t.co/vRA93x1md5
In February and March, we hosted a roundtable on “Knowledge in the Islamic Court.” We thank the contributors for their essays. In case you missed them, here they are!
https://t.co/cBenhAQpO4
In a recent statement, Dr. Raghib Naeemi of Pakistan‘s Council of Islamic Ideology outlined the “fundamental difference” between “zakat and voluntary charity (sadaqa).”
Read more today!
https://t.co/7ON4SxKFYF
As the month of Ramadan concludes, the entire community at the Program in Islamic Law and the SHARIAsource Lab at Harvard Law School send well wishes for a reflective, joyous, and nourishing Eid!
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the “Arabic LLM Benchmarks,” a comprehensive GitHub repository “of Arabic LLMs benchmarks and evaluation benchmarks, curated from systematic research on evaluating Arabic LLMs.” #FieldGuideFridays https://t.co/k0blUC0uY5
Join us on Tuesday, March 10th at 12:30PM US EST via Zoom where Professor Ihsan Yilmaz will discuss his monograph Sharia as Informal Law: Lived Experiences of Young Muslims in Western Societies (Routledge, 2024)!
Registration is required
https://t.co/007tqBuHnM
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the Saiful Bahri Collection which contains “digital images of 23 manuscripts owned by Saiful Bahri of Lambunot, Besar Regency." #FieldGuideFridays
https://t.co/WYXoVO7g0J
As the month of Ramadan begins, we send you well wishes for a joyous month full of blessings.
We also invite you to join us for our #MemeMondays Ramadan Special! Over the next month, we will be posting reflective or light hearted Ramadan themed memes every week.
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is M-Classi, a digital tool used for "cataloging and interrogating the classifications of the sciences in Islam and those of the cultures with which the Islamicate world came into contact.”#FieldGuideFridays
https://t.co/EyD2Qd92cX
Join us on tomorrow at 12:30PM EST via Zoom, where Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University) will give a talk on her latest monograph, Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India (UCP, 2025)!
Registration is required.
https://t.co/GDiTfp3Djb
🎙️ Step into the world of Islamic legal studies with our podcast series! Join us for one-on-one conversations with top scholars, delving into their latest book projects and insights on the field.
Tune in today!
https://t.co/TVp7ZAVoui
“In Muslim-majority societies—and particularly in Egypt—scholars of Islamic law occupy a critical intersection between faith, public order, and social stability.”
Read more in our recent roundup!
https://t.co/wUrd0NkSiN