Job Notice: History of the Islamic/Muslim World

[We have the following job announcement.] History of the Islamic World/Muslim World, Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track .  The History Depart...

Katz Discusses "Women in the Mosque"

Over at New Books in History , Kristian Petersen talks to Marion Holmes Katz about Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Soci...

Joseph on "Islamic Law and the Management of Natural Resources in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Ottoman Syria"

The May 2015 issue of Environment and History includes an article of interest: " Islamic Law and the Management of Natural Resources i...

Rabb on the Judical Stereotyping of Kadijustiz

Intisar A. Rabb, Harvard Law School , has posted Against Kadijustiz: On the Negative Citation of Foreign Law , which is forthcoming in the S...

Unexpected Sources of Law at Tel Aviv University

We have word of Unexpected Sources of Law , a two-panel meeting sponsored by the David Berg Institute for Law and History and the Buchmann F...

Speed Sisters

From the Vancouver Sun : Director Amber Fares is the first to admit that she knew absolutely nothing about racing before she met the  Speed ...

The Lady of Iraq

From the Jerusalem Post : T.E. Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia, as he is more commonly known – may have hogged the limelight in early twenti...

Rape In Wartime

From CNN - Listening to the Victims : It began as a headache. Then her throat started to feel tight. A dull pain welled in her chest and her...