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New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the BADR project which "includes 43 texts, around 700,000 words, and several tens of thousands of encoded named entities" extracted from al-Maktaba al-Shamela and the OpenITI repository. #FieldGuideFridays buff.ly/x8bYTdn

Have you checked out our newsletter for the month of February? Check it out today! buff.ly/XWmWZfQ

In February and March, we hosted a roundtable on “Knowledge in the Islamic Court.” We thank the contributors for their essays. In case you missed them, here they are! buff.ly/1pUs65K

In a recent statement, Dr. Raghib Naeemi of Pakistan‘s Council of Islamic Ideology outlined the “fundamental difference” between “zakat and voluntary charity (sadaqa).” Read more today! buff.ly/FQ48cuK

As the month of Ramadan concludes, the entire community at the Program in Islamic Law and the SHARIAsource Lab at Harvard Law School send well wishes for a reflective, joyous, and nourishing Eid!

New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the “Arabic LLM Benchmarks,” a comprehensive GitHub repository “of Arabic LLMs benchmarks and evaluation benchmarks, curated from systematic research on evaluating Arabic LLMs.” #FieldGuideFridays buff.ly/Ui32ros

Join us on Tuesday, March 10th at 12:30PM US EST via Zoom where Professor Ihsan Yilmaz will discuss his monograph Sharia as Informal Law: Lived Experiences of Young Muslims in Western Societies (Routledge, 2024)! Registration is required buff.ly/3ZobpNi

New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the Saiful Bahri Collection which contains “digital images of 23 manuscripts owned by Saiful Bahri of Lambunot, Besar Regency." #FieldGuideFridays buff.ly/L7cufoQ

Send us your favorite memes to be featured on #MemeMondays on our SHARIAsource IG page! We look forward to a reflective month with you all!

As the month of Ramadan begins, we send you well wishes for a joyous month full of blessings. We also invite you to join us for our #MemeMondays Ramadan Special! Over the next month, we will be posting reflective or light hearted Ramadan themed memes every week.

New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is M-Classi, a digital tool used for "cataloging and interrogating the classifications of the sciences in Islam and those of the cultures with which the Islamicate world came into contact.”#FieldGuideFridays buff.ly/QOJtOyK

Join us on tomorrow at 12:30PM EST via Zoom, where Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University) will give a talk on her latest monograph, Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India (UCP, 2025)! Registration is required. buff.ly/s9N4N50

🎙️ Step into the world of Islamic legal studies with our podcast series! Join us for one-on-one conversations with top scholars, delving into their latest book projects and insights on the field. Tune in today! buff.ly/ElqQb6Q

“In Muslim-majority societies—and particularly in Egypt—scholars of Islamic law occupy a critical intersection between faith, public order, and social stability.” Read more in our recent roundup! buff.ly/TXpNENu

In “Interfaith Marriage: Can a Muslim Woman Marry a Non-Muslim Man?” (Comparative Islamic Studies), Nayel Badareen “examines the legal reasoning behind the law which forbids Muslim women from marrying outside their faith." Read more today! buff.ly/zeegKBT

New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is "Quantifying Islamic Law in the Modern State" which uses quantitative methods to “reconstruct” Islamic legal tradition through almost 800 shari’a court cases in Morocco from 1921–1957. #FieldGuideFridays buff.ly/zeegKBT

🚨 Opportunity 🚨 Professor Intisar Rabb is seeking Research Assistants for Spring 2026 to support two distinct projects within the Program in Islamic Law! Due: January 28, 2026 buff.ly/iQmXiwJ

As we begin the new year, we offer a curated snapshot of last year’s research and scholarship at the Program in Islamic Law and in the SHARIAsource Lab! buff.ly/mq0Mn8W

The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of January! Check it out today! buff.ly/B1Xq2Gl

As we begin the new year, we look back at the Islamic Law Blog’s most-read posts of 2025! buff.ly/yMWyaOP