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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

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Send us your favorite memes to be featured on #MemeMondays on our SHARIAsource Instagram page! Tag or message us on Instagram or X, or email us your favorite memes to shariasource@law.harvard.edu.

We look forward to a reflective month with you all!

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 as a part of our Courts & Canons (CnC) project.

As the month of Ramadan begins, we at the Program in Islamic Law and SHARIAsource Lab send you well wishes for a joyous month full of blessings.

New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is M-Classi, a digital tool "conceived primarily as a means of cataloging and interrogating the classifications of the sciences in Islam and those of the cultures with which the Islamicate world came into contact.” #FieldGuideFridays

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Join us on tomorrow at 12:30-1:30PM 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 (University of California Press, 2025)!

Registration is required.

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🎙️ 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!

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“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!

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In “Interfaith Marriage: Can a Muslim Woman Marry a Non-Muslim Man?” (Comparative Islamic Studies), Nayel Badareen “examines the legal reasoning behind the law which forbids Muslim women from marrying outside their faith."

Read more today!

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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is "Quantifying Islamic Law in the Modern State" which uses quantitative methods to “reconstruct” Islamic legal tradition through almost 800 shari’a court cases in Morocco from 1921–1957. #FieldGuideFridays

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🚨 Opportunity 🚨

Professor Intisar Rabb is seeking Research Assistants for Spring 2026 to support two distinct projects within the Program in Islamic Law!

Due: January 28, 2026

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As we begin the new year, we offer a curated snapshot of last year’s research and scholarship at the Program in Islamic Law and in the SHARIAsource Lab!

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The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of January! Check it out today!

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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is “From Pen to Printing Press: Ten Centuries of Islamic Book Arts,” a permanent online collection adapted from the 2009 Indiana University Art Museum special exhibition of the same name.#FieldGuideFridays

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As we begin the new year, we look back at the Islamic Law Blog’s most-read posts of 2025!

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Before we turn the page on 2025, we reflect on the highlights of the past year at the Program in Islamic Law and the SHARIAsource Lab. We’ve brought it all together with a video montage of the year in pictures!

New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the Haji Nurdin Ismail digitized manuscript collection which contains nine eighteenth–twentieth century manuscripts in Arabic and Malay, including works of fiqh and tafsīr, currently housed in Sumatra, Indonesia. #FieldGuideFridays

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“Global Islamic finance assets grew by approximately 14.9% year-on-year in 2025, reaching nearly USD 5.2 trillion.”

Read more in our recent roundup!

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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is Farasa, a "full-stack package to deal with Arabic Language Processing.” #FieldGuideFridays

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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the Surau Sheikh Abdurrahman Collection of Sufic Texts, which “were digitised as part of the EAP205 Endangered Manuscript Collections of Sufi Brotherhoods in Western Sumatra project." #FieldGuideFridays

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What is a "non-canon" and why does it matter? The SHARIAsource Lab analyzed nearly 6,000 canons & found hundreds of non-canons that they then classified as legal prompts, topic markers, fragments, dissent signals, or citations. This visualization shows their frequency based on these classifications.

We are pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2026–2027 PIL Research Fellowship the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School.

Applications are now open, with a submission deadline of February 13, 2026.

Apply today!

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Our newsletter is out for the month of December! Check it out today!

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In Qatar, “the newly established International Islamic Bioethics Association (IIBA) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) convened its inaugural meeting, marking a significant milestone in promoting bioethical discourse within an Islamic framework.”

Read more today!

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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is QURAN-MD, which “supports various applications, including natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, linguistic analysis, and digital Islamic studies." #FieldGuideFridays

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Did you know that the SHARIAsource portal features historical maps, including ones of 8th and 10th century Maghreb by Ḥusayn Mu’nis in "Aṭlas Tārīkh al-Islām" (Cairo: Al-Zahraa For Arab Mass Media, 1987/1407)?

Check them out today!

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“Ruya, the UAE’s digital-first Islamic bank, has become the first Islamic bank globally to allow customers to buy and sell Bitcoin directly through its mobile app.”

Read more in our recent roundup!

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Have you check out our November newsletter? Check it out today and don't forget to subscribe to receive our newsletter straight to your inbox if you have not already!

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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the KITAB Project’s Diff Viewer is “an application that allows you to see the differences between two related pieces of text…[and] can be used with any two (relatively short) pieces of related text.” #FieldGuideFridays

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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online the Archival Records from the Digitisation of Minangkabau’s Manuscript Collections in Suraus contain more than 250 manuscripts from West Sumatra, Indonesia. #FieldGuideFridays

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