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Does a Muslim Inmate Have a First Amendment Right to a Halal Meal?
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U.S. editor Abed Awad contrasts an inmate's right to religious practice with the responsibility of correctional facilities. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently filed Gannon Thomas v. Boon County Sheriff on behalf of Gannon Thomas, an inmate in Indiana who claims he has a right to halal meals as a practicing Muslim. Awad considers Gannon's claim of violated religious rights within the narrative of past cases pertaining to religious diets and the American penitentiary system. Read more. Image credit: Getty Images
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The Anatomy of SHARIAsource: An Interview with Research Editor Sharon Tai
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Sharon Tai spoke with journalist Noor Ali for the September/October 2016 issue of Islamic Horizons. Tai summarized the mission of SHARIAsource, which is to make content and context on Islamic law accessible to a wide audience. A central part of this effort is the creation of an online portal of Islamic legal texts and relevant expert commentaries, both historical and contemporary, to facilitate global information-sharing, exchange, and debate. In addition to highlighting the current and future features of the portal, Tai addressed the academic complexities and potential challenges of the project. Read more. Image credit: Islamic Horizons Sept/Oct issue
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Other News
Events
"Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Medieval Legal History and the Problem of the Sources" (12 Sep 2016, 5pm | Barker Center, Thompson Room, Harvard University). HLS Professors Elizabeth Kamali and Intisar Rabb will be speaking at the seminar on alternative sources for Islamic and other medieval law at the Medieval Studies Workshop and Reception.
Lunch Discussion: "From Big Law to Public Service in the White House" (16 Sep 2016, 12pm). Raheemah Abdulaleem, the Associate General Counsel in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration, the White House shares her perspectives on a career that took her from private practice to public service as she pursued opportunities to advance the interests of justice in political campaigns, on issues of Islamic law, and in other arenas. She is a former Senior Trial Attorney at the US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, and President of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights.
American Society of Legal History Annual Meeting (27-30 Oct 2016 | Toronto, Canada). Ottoman editor Will Smiley and editor-in-chief Intisar Rabb will present at the ASLH Annual Meeting on a panel addressing "Borderlands of Islamic Law: The Ottoman Empire and its Neighbors." Also at ASLH, Egyptian law and society historian Khaled Fahmy will present a paper that explores "Global Forensics: Medico-Legal History in Asia and Africa" on a panel chaired by Mitra Sharafi. See preliminary program.
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (17-20 Nov 2016 | Boston, MA). MESA’s annual meeting will host a range of panels on Islamic law, including Policing and Punishment in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Is Saudi Foreign Policy 'Islamic'?, "Islamic Religious Authority between the Arab World and Europe: Multi-tasked and Multi-tasking Imams" (Denmark contributor Niels Valdemar Vinding will be presenting), International Law, Sovereignty and Subjecthood in the Late Ottoman Empire (Ottoman editor Will Smiley will be a discussant), Legal Contests & Disputes, Part I, Law as Social History in the Late Ottoman Era, Legal Contests & Disputes, Part 2. See full preliminary program.
"Qur’anists in al-Andalus?" (5 Apr 2016 4 pm | Princeton, NJ). Incoming SHARIAsource/ILSP and CMES senior fellow Maribel Fierro will be speaking as part of the Institute for Advanced Study's Near/Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Lecture Series 2016/2017. She explores the production of religious and political authority sharing her study of how prophets accepted by Islam are represented. See full details.
Opportunities
"Changes in God’s Law: An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law." Nadjma Yassaril's research group at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law is seeking scholars of Islamic family law to fill a post-doctoral position available starting in October/November 2016. Read more.
“Law as Religion, Religion as Law” (5-7 Jun 2017 | Jerusalem). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has issued a call for papers to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines (including law, religious studies, philosophy, history, political science and other relevant fields).
Call for papers.
"Global Dynamics of Debating and Concluding Shia Marriages" (25-26 Aug 2017 | Amsterdam). The University of Amsterdam's workshop has issued a call for papers to bring together researchers working on empirircal research about "debating and concluding Shia marriages, starting from the search for a suitable partner to the celebration of the wedding." See the full call for papers.
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