SHARIAsource@Harvard
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SHARIAsource @ Harvard Law School is a digital portal for Islamic law texts+data science tools.
The Special Collection on Islamic Law in the Age of Colonialism is a collection of over 3300 legal writings, compendia, & related studies commissioned by, or in relation to, colonial powers ruling Muslim societies.
Check it out on the SHARIAsource Portal today!
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Check it out on the SHARIAsource Portal today!
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November 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The Special Collection on Islamic Law in the Age of Colonialism is a collection of over 3300 legal writings, compendia, & related studies commissioned by, or in relation to, colonial powers ruling Muslim societies.
Check it out on the SHARIAsource Portal today!
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Check it out on the SHARIAsource Portal today!
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Read Prof. Jonathan Brockopp's recent essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Four manuscripts from the Mālikī tradition: NLPCPM, Raqqada, 10-1648" today!
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November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Read Prof. Jonathan Brockopp's recent essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Four manuscripts from the Mālikī tradition: NLPCPM, Raqqada, 10-1648" today!
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is Al-Azhar University's free access to issues of Majallat al-Azhar as downloadable PDFs. The collection currently spans issues published between 1349 and 1435 AH (1931 and 2013 CE).
Check it out today! #FieldGuideFridays
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Check it out today! #FieldGuideFridays
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November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is Al-Azhar University's free access to issues of Majallat al-Azhar as downloadable PDFs. The collection currently spans issues published between 1349 and 1435 AH (1931 and 2013 CE).
Check it out today! #FieldGuideFridays
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Check it out today! #FieldGuideFridays
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A popular document on the SHARIAsource portal this month is a section of the Hudood Ordinances about sexual offenses such as adultery, fornication, and rape.
Check them out today!
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Check them out today!
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November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A popular document on the SHARIAsource portal this month is a section of the Hudood Ordinances about sexual offenses such as adultery, fornication, and rape.
Check them out today!
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Check them out today!
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Read Prof. Jonathan Brockopp's latest essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Four manuscripts from the Mālikī tradition: NLPCPM, Raqqada, 49-2/915" today!
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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Read Prof. Jonathan Brockopp's latest essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Four manuscripts from the Mālikī tradition: NLPCPM, Raqqada, 49-2/915" today!
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The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) 2025 Annual Meeting, to be held November 22–25, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Check it out today!
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Check it out today!
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November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) 2025 Annual Meeting, to be held November 22–25, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Check it out today!
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Check it out today!
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the University of Utah’s digitized, open-access Arabic Papyrus, Parchment & Paper Collection. #FieldGuideFridays
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the University of Utah’s digitized, open-access Arabic Papyrus, Parchment & Paper Collection. #FieldGuideFridays
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🗓️ Event 🗓️
Apply to join a two-day Arabic digital humanities workshop to learn TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) mark-up of Arabic-script texts for critical digital editions! T
Applications are due November 21st!
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Apply to join a two-day Arabic digital humanities workshop to learn TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) mark-up of Arabic-script texts for critical digital editions! T
Applications are due November 21st!
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November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
🗓️ Event 🗓️
Apply to join a two-day Arabic digital humanities workshop to learn TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) mark-up of Arabic-script texts for critical digital editions! T
Applications are due November 21st!
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Apply to join a two-day Arabic digital humanities workshop to learn TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) mark-up of Arabic-script texts for critical digital editions! T
Applications are due November 21st!
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Interested in a country’s legal history and wondering where you can find primary source documents? Our Country Profiles offer succinct overviews and resources for each country’s legal history, including over 600 constitutions!
Check it out today!
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Check it out today!
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November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Interested in a country’s legal history and wondering where you can find primary source documents? Our Country Profiles offer succinct overviews and resources for each country’s legal history, including over 600 constitutions!
Check it out today!
portal.shariasource.com/projects/1
Check it out today!
portal.shariasource.com/projects/1
In India, the Madras High Court “held that adoptions among Muslims must follow the statutory route under the Juvenile Justice Act, and personal law concepts like kafala cannot override the legal framework designed to protect child welfare.”
Read more in our recent roundup!
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Read more in our recent roundup!
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November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In India, the Madras High Court “held that adoptions among Muslims must follow the statutory route under the Juvenile Justice Act, and personal law concepts like kafala cannot override the legal framework designed to protect child welfare.”
Read more in our recent roundup!
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Read more in our recent roundup!
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The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the American Society for Legal History‘s (ASLH) 2025 Annual Meeting, to be held November 13–15, 2025 in Detroit, MI!
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November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations related to Islamic law, history, and data science from the American Society for Legal History‘s (ASLH) 2025 Annual Meeting, to be held November 13–15, 2025 in Detroit, MI!
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Read Prof. Jonathan Brockopp's latest essaY on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Four manuscripts from the Mālikī tradition: Al-Azhar, fiqh Mālikī 1655" today!
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November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Read Prof. Jonathan Brockopp's latest essaY on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Four manuscripts from the Mālikī tradition: Al-Azhar, fiqh Mālikī 1655" today!
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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the African Online Digital Library which “provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities.” #FieldGuideFridays
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November 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the African Online Digital Library which “provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities.” #FieldGuideFridays
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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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November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“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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(PC: PD/Wikipedia)
We are excited to welcome the ISLAMICLAWblog's November Guest Blogger, Professor Jonathan Brockopp!
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November 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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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October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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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Registration is required.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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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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Read more in our recent roundup!
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October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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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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🗓️ Fri, Oct 31, 2025 | 9am–12pm
📍 Lamont B30
Presented by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
📚 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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🗓️ 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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October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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October 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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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October 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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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October 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Read Prof. Katherine Lemons' latest essay on the ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Muslim Personal Law as Struggle" today! #ScholarshipSundays
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