In “Criminal Offense of Abortion Due to Rape from the Perspective of Islamic Criminal Law” (Syiah Kuala Law Journal 8, no. 3 (2024)), Dahlan Almas Harefa and Ishaq Ishaq “examine how abortion due to rape is viewed under positive law and Islamic law.” Read more today! #ScholarshipSundays https://buff.ly/40b5LPF (PC: Public Domain)
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PIL@HLS is dedicated to promoting research and providing resources for the academic study of Islamic law.
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The Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is dedicated to promoting research and providing resources for the academic study of Islamic law. We host a suite of projects toward that end: a Portal for organizing the world’s information on Islamic law (SHARIAsource), a set of Publications for cutting-edge scholarship in Islamic legal studies (a book series, occasional papers, and a peer-reviewed journal), and myriad Program events and support for students, fellows, and scholars working in the field of Islamic legal studies. SHARIAsource is a flagship research venture of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. Its continuing mission is to organize the world’s information on Islamic law in a way that is accessible and useful. Working with a global team of editors, we provide a platform to house primary sources of Islamic law, organize the people to critically analyze them, and promote research to inform academic and public discourse about Islamic law. Our research portal offers cutting-edge content and context on Islamic law to academics, journalists, and policy makers. Our other programs serve generally interested readers through a blog, newsletter, and special events. SHARIAsource adheres to common principles of academic engagement including attention to diverse perspectives, peer-reviewed analysis, and the free and open exchange of ideas. We are not a religious organization or an advocacy group. SHARIAsource was developed with support from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and from the Luce and MacArthur Foundations. SHARIAsource includes sources and scholarly commentary on Islamic law from the earliest periods of Islam to the modern era, covering both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts.
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According to an AI chatbot, what are the various opinions in Islamic law on whether coffee is prohibited as an intoxicant? Read this report by Emma Westhoff, a second-year JD student at Harvard Law School. https://buff.ly/3WdG67G
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For the month of January, the ISLAMICLAWblog will be publishing a series of essays written by students from the Fall 2024 “Islamic Law Lab” course at Harvard Law School, convened by Professor Intisar Rabb. As part of their assignments, students were tasked with posing ChatGPT a question related to Islamic law and then conducting their own independent research to validate, and where applicable, critically examine, ChatGPT’s responses. The essays in this series reveal mixed results about the current efficacy and accuracy of ChatGPT in the context of Islamic law. Follow along on the blog! https://buff.ly/3WfNakh
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is Javānān-i Imrūz (“Today’s Youth”), a mid-20th-century Persian magazine that addressed youth culture, education, women’s roles, and the tension between tradition and modernization in Pahlavi-era Iran. Reflecting state-led reforms, it shaped debates on identity, nationalism, and secularism, presenting the youth as key to Iran’s future. #FieldGuideFridays https://buff.ly/40b5LPF (PC: The University of Manchester Library)
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Morocco‘s Minister of Endowments, Ahmed Toufiq, proposed reforms to the Family Code to align legal provisions with Islamic law, focusing on lineage, inheritance, and polygamy. Read more in our recent roundup! https://buff.ly/4gY4S3O
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Did you miss our December 2024 newsletter? This issue gives readers a glimpse into the work underway at the SHARIAsource Lab, primary sources on apocalyptic jurisprudence, a lecture by Professor Ali Rod Khadem, essays by last month’s guest blog editor, and more. Read it today! https://buff.ly/425o62U
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We recently added the video Dr. Bahman Khodadadi's recent book talk to our site. Watch it today! https://buff.ly/4ac3I24
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This figure highlights the growth of the canons database over the last year. Each dot represents a single legal canon and each line represents an annotated relationship between them. As lab members annotate each canon with associated data about categories and relationships, the dots get larger. The annotations added by the Fall 2024 Lab members are highlighted in yellow. Annotations of the set of five key canons that we selected and tracked as representative of most canons appear in red. Together, these annotations enable us to map whole networks of legal canons to eventually see how they apply differently in diverse contexts and thus inform research on historical or thematic trends in Islamic law. Read more in this recent report! https://buff.ly/3VZDlqy
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Does imitation (tashabbuh) require intent, or is resemblance enough? Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī argues the latter in his treatise that discusses men using henna. Read more in Prof. Al-Marakeby's latest for the ISLAMICLAWblog! https://buff.ly/40iZdQ0 (PC: See link for details)
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The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of panels from the Association of American Law Schools’s (AALS) 2025 Annual Meeting schedule that are related to Islamic law! AALS’s annual meeting will be held between January 7-11. Will we be seeing you? https://buff.ly/3W4kI4M