Islamic Legal Studies Program

03/07/2017

Mohsin Hamid, HLS alum, will give a book talk on March 8th at Harvard Law. Hamid will be joined by Prof. Noah Feldman. Copies of the book will be available. Details below.

05/12/2016

SHARIAsource and ILSP co-sponsored a conference on Courts and Judicial Procedure in Early Islamic Law (632-1250 AD) on May 6, in honor of Roy Mottahedeh. More at http://ow.ly/ERPg30090GE.

04/15/2016

What Is Islam? A Symposium in Memory of Shahab Ahmed will provide an opportunity to consider What is Islam? from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Those who will reflect on Shahab’s book and its impact include Michael Cook, Noah Feldman, Cemal Kafadar, Gülru Necipoğlu, Parimal Patil, and Nicholas Watson. Friday, April 29, 2016 | 1:00–6:30 pm | Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall.

04/15/2016

ILSP Director Kristen Stilt will moderate a panel discussion on “Addressing Violence against Women in Muslim Countries.” The panel discussion will highlight the prevalence and causes of violence against women in Pakistan, Libya and Jordan, with focus on the role of culture and religion, and institutional responses to violence against women. Monday, April 18, 2016, 1:30-3:30 pm, Taubman T-102, Cason Conference Room, Harvard Kennedy School

04/15/2016

ILSP Director Intisar Rabb will join other distinguished faculty at Harvard University History Department’s annual Faculty Book Tour. Prof. Rabb’s book “Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law” will be one of the featured works. Thursday, April 21, 2016, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm, Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy St.

12/22/2015

Check out the ILSP December 2015 newsletter for the latest on the Program: http://bit.ly/1O7Iowe

12/07/2015

Professor Intisar A. Rabb will deliver a lecture on “Qāḍī Justice: Cases and Controversies in Early Islamic Law and Society” as part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Fellows’ Presentation Series. The talk will take place on December 16, 4-5:30 pm, at the Institute’s Fay House, 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA.

12/04/2015

ILSP Visiting Fellow Boğaç A. Ergene will speak on “Ottoman Legal Studies from the Perspective of ‘Law and Economics’ Scholarship.” The talk is the next in the Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series organized by Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Tuesday, December 08, 2015 | 5:00-6:30 pm | CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St.

10/23/2015

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $425,000 over two years for the development of SHARIAsource, an online portal of resources and analysis on Islamic law, in cooperation with scholars of Islamic law and policy in the United States and around the world. The project is an initiative of Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program, built with support from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. For more, see http://bit.ly/1W9kC8F.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $425,000 over two years for the development of SHARIAsource—an online Islamic law reso

10/19/2015

The Islamic Legal Studies Program invites Harvard Law School students to submit travel grant proposals to secure funding for proposed research trips related to work on or the study of Islamic law. All projects associated with Islamic law or with the legal systems of Muslim countries qualify, internships included.http://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/student-grants/. Deadline to apply is Nov. 6

Information about ILSP grants offered to Law Students, primarily including travel grants

10/05/2015

Visiting Fellowship Program for 2016-2017

The Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School is now accepting applications for ILSP Visiting Fellowships for the academic year 2016-2017. The program provides an opportunity to work on scholarly projects relating to one of three research streams: Islamic Law and Legal History, Islamic Law and Society, and Islamic Law Themes in Digital Humanities. Applicants with a JD, SJD, PhD or other comparable terminal degree from any field of study are welcome to apply.

For information and to apply, visit http://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/who-is-eligible/.

Please note that the deadline for applications is November 13, 2015. Applications received after this date will not be considered.

09/09/2015

ILSP Director Kristen Stilt featured in Harvard Law Today. See more about Prof. Stilt's Animals, Law, and Religion project at http://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/animal-law-and-religion/.

During a recent conversation, Professor Kristen Stilt, co-director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, spoke about the connect