SHARIAsource@Harvard
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SHARIAsource@Harvard
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SHARIAsource @ Harvard Law School is a digital portal for Islamic law texts+data science tools.
Did you know that the SHARIAsource portal features historical maps, including ones of 8th and 10th century Maghreb by Ḥusayn Mu’nis in "Aṭlas Tārīkh al-Islām" (Cairo: Al-Zahraa For Arab Mass Media, 1987/1407)?

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December 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“Ruya, the UAE’s digital-first Islamic bank, has become the first Islamic bank globally to allow customers to buy and sell Bitcoin directly through its mobile app.”

Read more in our recent roundup!

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December 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Have you check out our November newsletter? Check it out today and don't forget to subscribe to receive our newsletter straight to your inbox if you have not already!

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December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the KITAB Project’s Diff Viewer is “an application that allows you to see the differences between two related pieces of text…[and] can be used with any two (relatively short) pieces of related text.” #FieldGuideFridays

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December 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online the Archival Records from the Digitisation of Minangkabau’s Manuscript Collections in Suraus contain more than 250 manuscripts from West Sumatra, Indonesia. #FieldGuideFridays

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December 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“The Federal Sharia Court of Umm Al Quwain has ruled that a woman must return nearly Dh200,000 to her former husband after finding her responsible for ending their marriage before it was consummated.”

Read more in our recent roundup!

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December 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Have you checked out our portal's "The Nigeria Papers: Sharīʿa Implementation in Northern Nigeria" special collection? It includes collection of documentary material and scholarly analysis on the programs of “sharīʿa implementation” undertaken by twelve northern Nigerian states.

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December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In a recent interview, Malaysian director Erma Fatima expressed a desire to “produce syariah-compliant works that do not have scenes of man-woman intimacy and overtly revealing dresses.” Read more in our recent Islamic Law in the News Roundup!

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December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New to the Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is the Raja Fahrul Collection of Islamic Manuscripts, which contains 19 digitized manuscripts in Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, and Malay from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. #FieldGuideFridays

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December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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November 29, 2025 at 12:25 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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November 29, 2025 at 12:13 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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November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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.

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November 21, 2025 at 10:41 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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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 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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November 21, 2025 at 10:10 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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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🗓️ 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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November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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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November 16, 2025 at 10:45 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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November 16, 2025 at 10:23 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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November 14, 2025 at 11:53 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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November 14, 2025 at 11:47 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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November 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“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
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
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