This post is available immediately for 5 years on 0.4fte basis, to provide leadership in the development, management and delivery of Institute engagement with non-academic practitioners working in the field of peace, security and justice in the Muslim World and to sustain a personal research plan, including research grant application. Further information about the Institute … Continue reading Opportunity: Practitioner Chair (Part Time), Queen’s University Belfast
Opportunity: Assistant Professor, Islamic World History, Lehigh University
The Department of History and the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University welcome applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in a particular region of the Islamic World combined with broad training in the history of Islam’s transnational, cross-cultural, and global dimensions. This position carries a 2/2 teaching load of graduate (M.A. … Continue reading Opportunity: Assistant Professor, Islamic World History, Lehigh University
CASE: Farooq Siddiqui v. Mst. Farzana Naheed (Federal Shariat Court, Pakistan): Judgment on Surrogacy
A baby produced through medical intervention by the sperm and egg of duly wedded couples (without involving a third party) is permissible under Islamic law. However, surrogacy is not allowed because marriage is the only means through which children should be produced under Islamic law. Surrogacy is likely to give rise to innumerable legal problems regarding … Continue reading CASE: Farooq Siddiqui v. Mst. Farzana Naheed (Federal Shariat Court, Pakistan): Judgment on Surrogacy
Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan on Surrogacy: From Judicial Islamization of Laws to Judicial Legislation
Pakistan editor Zubair Abbasi examines the legality of surrogacy under Islamic law. In Farooq Siddiqui v Mst. Farzana Naheed, decided on 16 February 2017, the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) determined the legality of surrogacy under Islamic law. In this case note, Abbasi analyzes the judgment of the FSC on surrogacy. Based on this analysis, he argues that this judgment signifies a historical … Continue reading Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan on Surrogacy: From Judicial Islamization of Laws to Judicial Legislation
Stanford Hiring for Law/Legal Institutions in Muslim Societies: Assistant- or Associate-Level Faculty Position in Law and Legal Institutions in Muslim Societies
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or a tenured Associate Professor faculty position focused on law and legal institutions of Islam and/or Muslim societies in any time period. The successful applicant for this position will be jointly appointed in the Stanford Law School and one of the following departments within the School … Continue reading Stanford Hiring for Law/Legal Institutions in Muslim Societies: Assistant- or Associate-Level Faculty Position in Law and Legal Institutions in Muslim Societies
MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
Deadline: August 15, 2017 The Middle East Studies Association invites submissions of graduate student research papers on any aspect of post 600 CE Middle East studies for the 2017 Graduate Student Paper Prize. The author of the winning paper will be presented with a certificate and $250 cash award at the Awards Ceremony at MESA's … Continue reading MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
Association for Iranian Studies’ Twelfth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference
The Twelfth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference will be held at the University of California, Irvine from the 14-17 Aug 2018. Submission opens on 15 Jul 2017, and will continue until 15 Sep 2017, 11:59pm Pacific Time-zone. Read more.
Asifa Quraishi-Landes on the “American Laws for American Courts” bill
Excerpted from The Journal Sentinel. Read the entire article. State Rep. Thomas Weatherston (R-Caledonia) is spearheading an effort to pass a so-called "American Laws for American Courts" bill, which would bar Wisconsin judges from applying foreign laws — including those based on Islamic law — if doing so would violate fundamental human rights protected by the U.S. and Wisconsin … Continue reading Asifa Quraishi-Landes on the “American Laws for American Courts” bill
Islamic Law in U.S. Courts: Anti-Sharīʿa Ban in Kansas
U.S. editor Abed Awad weighs in on the Kansas Superior Court's discussion of mahr and Kansas's anti-sharīʿa legislation in Soleimani v. Soleimani, 2012 WL 3729939 (Kansas Superior Court, 2012). Soleimani v. Soleimani, 2012 WL 3729939 (Kansas Superior Court, 2012) involved a wife’s request to enforce the mahr contained in her Muslim marriage contract. While the trial level … Continue reading Islamic Law in U.S. Courts: Anti-Sharīʿa Ban in Kansas
“How anti-Shariah marches mistake Muslim concepts of state and religious law”: Asifa Quraishi-Landes in the Religion News Service
In the wake of anti-sharīʿa marches across the United States, Senior Scholar Asifa Quraishi-Landes clarifies in the Religion News Service the history of state and religious law in Islamic legal history. Read the entire article. "To make things even more complicated for American observers, fiqh doesn’t neatly fit into Western categories of law and morality. … Continue reading “How anti-Shariah marches mistake Muslim concepts of state and religious law”: Asifa Quraishi-Landes in the Religion News Service
