“The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced that the country has obtained ‘Halal’ certification for the export of coffee and cocoa to Arab countries.”
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“The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced that the country has obtained ‘Halal’ certification for the export of coffee and cocoa to Arab countries.”
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We are excited to welcome the ISLAMICLAWblog's November Guest Blogger, Professor Jonathan Brockopp!
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is Dīwān, an association for French doctoral students working on the medieval and modern Islamic world, hosts a list of digitized manuscript catalogues. #FieldGuideFridays
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the “Specialised Information Service (FID).” MENALIB’s holdings include digitized full-text materials from the Middle East and North Africa, and bibliographic information for its physical collections. #FieldGuideFridays
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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 (University of California Press, 2025).
Registration is required.
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In Oman, the “Second Hajj and Umrah Conference and Exhibition concluded with a number of recommendations covering various organisational, technical, awareness, economic, and health aspects.”
Read more in our recent roundup!
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📚 Interested in library resources for Islamic studies? Join us for this workshop to explore collections, services, and tools across Harvard, including using SHARIAsource.
🗓️ Fri, Oct 31, 2025 | 9am–12pm
📍 Lamont B30
Presented by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.
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In “Between Law and Politics: Islamic Judges in the South Indian Littoral, 1808–1885” (Law and History Review), Saumyashree Ghosh “offers a fresh account of the colonial processes that upended Muslim juridical regimes in South Asia between 1808 and 1885.” #ScholarshipSundays
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Thank you, Prof. Katherine Lemons, for joining the ISLAMICLAWblog as guest blog editor in October. In case you missed her essays, here they are!
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Our monthly newsletter is out for the month of October! Check it out today.
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is The Metropolitan Museum of Art's online collection, which offers images and descriptions of more than 1,300 manuscripts within its Islamic Art collection. #FieldGuideFridays
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Read Prof. Katherine Lemons' latest essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Muslim Personal Law as Struggle" today! #ScholarshipSundays
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Did you know that you can search our portal by topic, theme, geographic region, empire/era, document types, scholar, and much more? Explore the SHARIAsource portal today!
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If you missed Dr. Rami Koujah's ILSS presentation titled “The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: From Artifact to Ontology,” you're in luck because the video is now available online! Watch it today!
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Read “Recognizing AI as a Legal Person in Iranian Law and Imāmiyya Fiqh” (Oxford Intersections: AI in Society Oxford Intersections: AI in Society, Oxford University Press) by Mohammad Javad Zolghadr and Morteza Shahbazinia, as featured in our recent Weekend Scholarship roundup!
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the Library of Congress' “Islamic Manuscripts from Mali” online collection of over 30 digitized manuscripts. #FieldGuideFridays
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Read Prof. Katherine Lemons' latest essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Muslim Personal Law as Community Outreach" today!
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“So-called ‘lounge’ culture, which has spread rapidly in Saudi Arabia, has emerged as a target of government crackdowns.”
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is The Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), directed and developed by Frédérick Madore, which is a collaborative, open-access digital database that features over 14,000 archival document. #FieldGuideFridays
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We are excited to announce the call for submissions for the seventh volume of the Journal of Islamic Law!
Deadline October 15
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Would you classify any of these Islamic legal canons (qawāʿid fiqhiyya) as variants? Let us know below!
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We are excited to announce the first ILSS talk of the semester, featuring our very own Research Fellow, Dr. Rami Koujah! Join us on Oct. 14th at 12:30pm EST via Zoom for his talk titled “The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: From Artifact to Ontology.”
Register today!
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“Halal concerns drive vaccine hesitancy as Indonesia fights [a] measles outbreak.” Read more in our recent roundup!
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"What do everyday practices of Islamic law reveal about the political lives of minorities?" Prof. Katherine Lemons addresses this question in her recent essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog!
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We are excited to welcome the ISLAMICLAWblog's October guest blogger, Professor Katherine Lemons!
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is St. Cyril and Methodius National Library’s digital repository which contains Arabic, Turkish and Persian manuscripts, including a “collection of Defters and Sijills.” #FieldGuideFridays
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We recently added Pakistan's Offence of Zina (Enforcement Of Hudood) Ordinance of 1979 to the SHARIAsource portal. This section of the Hudood Ordinances pertains to sexual offenses, including adultery, fornication, and rape.
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“Uzbekistan has taken a major step toward diversifying its financial sector with the approval of a draft law on Islamic banking in its first reading. Lawmakers in the legislative chamber of the parliament, the Oliy Majlis, debated the bill during a session held on September 16.”
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is Mouse & Manuscript, a “collection of lessons in codicology – the study of handwritten documents or codices – and palaeography from the Muslim world.” #FieldGuideFridays
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We are excited to announce an exciting lineup of virtual events this Fall 2025! Registration is required. Will you be joining us?
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