SAMY A. AYOUB Department of Middle Eastern Studies sayoub@utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin +1(727) 688-4902 204 E. 21 st Street (F9400) Austin, TX 78712-0527 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Assistant Professor, 2018-Present Courses: Islamic Law, Comparative Middle East Law, Islamic Law and Political violence, Islamic Commercial Law, Rule of Law in the Arab World, and Islamic Ethics, Islam and Politics DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR, STRAUSS CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND LAW University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Law, 2018-Present DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Lecturer, 2015-2018 FACULTY OF LAW, ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY, Alexandria, Egypt Arab Council for Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Middle East Law, 2016 Project: Theories of Liability and Remedies in Islamic Law UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, Santa Barbara, CA Religious Studies Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, 2014-2015 Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award Semi-Finalist Courses: Islamic Law, Islam and Modernity, Arabic Qur ān NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Lecturer, Spring 2014 Courses: Islamic Law NATIONAL CENTER FOR JUDICIAL AND LEGAL STUDIES, Alexandria, Egypt Fellow, 2013-2014 Project: Jurisprudence of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, AZ School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Lecturer, Fall 2013 Courses: Islamic Civilization 1
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, AZ, 2014 NEAR EASTERN STUDIES DEPARTMENT and JAMES E. ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW Ph.D. in Islamic Law Course work in American Law: Gender and Law, Torts, International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, Regulatory State, Criminal Law, Legal Writing, Comparative Law, International Law Dissertation: We re Not in Kufa Anymore : The Construction of Late Hanafim in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, 16 th 19 th Century CE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Scotland, UK, 2009 MSc. in Islamic Law and Middle Eastern Studies Honors: Chevening Scholar (full scholarship) Thesis: European Council for Fatwa and Research: The Foundation of a European Islamic Legal Authority. AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, Cairo, Egypt, B.A., 2006 Course Work: Islamic Law, Egyptian Law, International Law, Comparative Law, Theology, Gender and Law, Inheritance Law, Commercial Law, Legal History Honors: Magna cum laude PUBLICATIONS Books Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority in Late Hạnafi Jurisprudence (Under contract, Oxford University Press) Edited Volumes (Editor) Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law on Islamic Law and Empire, (The SOAS School of Law, Fall, 2017) Rethinking Late Ottoman Civilization (University of Edinburgh Press, under review) Peer-Reviewed Articles Ottoman Soldiers in the Arabian Peninsula: Fighting Armed Rebellion in the Sacred Mosque of Mecca in the 17 th Century Turkish Historical Review (Fall, 2018) Neither Desiring It, Nor Transgressing Its Limits: Necessity and Ethical Hierarchy in Islamic Law, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. (Fall, 2018) Transmutations of Sharīʿa: Pseudo-Ḥanafīs and Legal Reform in Twentieth-Century Egypt. Law and Religion (Spring, 2018) 2
The Sulṭān Says: State Authority in The Late Ḥanafī Tradition. Islamic Law and Society 23 (2016) 239-278. The Mecelle: Shari ʿa, and Ottoman State: Fashioning and Refashioning of Islamic Law in the 19 th 20 th Century CE. The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 2:1 (2015): 121-146. Territorial Jurisprudence: Political Boundaries & Legal Jurisdiction. Contemporary Islamic Studies 2 (March 2012): 4-33. Shura, Democracy & Shuracracy: The Islamist Dilemma. Edinburgh Middle East Report, (2008): 12-14. Translations Al-Bishri, Tariq. On The Modern Islamic Question: The Modern Legal State Between Sharīʿa and Positive Law in Egypt. Yale University Press (under review). Articles in preparation Adamiyya: Contestations of the Human in Islamic Law Custody is the Mother s Privilege : Custody Litigation in the Jurisprudence of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court Book Reviews The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament. Journal of Church and State, 58:1 (2016): 158-160. The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law. Review of Middle East Studies, 50:1 (2016): 116-118. The Fatigue of the Sharīʿa. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 35:2 (2015): 111-3. Islamic law on peasant usufruct in Ottoman Syria: 17 th to early 19 th century. Journal of Near Easter Studies (Forthcoming 2017). AWARDS 2015-6 Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award Nominee, University of California, Santa Barbara (Selected by the student body) 2015 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award, Middle Eastern Studies Association (Best dissertation in the Humanities) 3
FELLOWSHIPS 2016 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Middle East Law, Arab Council for Social Sciences 2014 School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Dissertation Writing Fellowship 2013-2014 Fellowship, National Center for Judicial and Legal Studies, Alexandria, Egypt 2012-2013 Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute (SBSRI), University of Arizona Dissertation Grant 2012-2013 Global Supplementary Grant Fellow, Open Society Foundation 2009-2010 Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Travel Grant 2009-2014 Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona 2008-2009 School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures Award, University of Edinburgh 2007-2009 British Chevening Scholarship, The British Council of Egypt CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Papers Presented 2018 The Ottoman Rationale for Codification: The Mecelle, Rethinking Ottoman Reform Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, May 4-6. 2018 al-islam Dīn wa Dawla: Egyptian State as A Walī al-amr, USPPIP / University of Bergen, Norway, April 18-20. 2018 Islamic Law and Social Justice, The Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 3-7. 2017 Sharīʿa Law Lacks A Legal Character: The Dialectic of Religious Freedom and Judicial Exclusion, Deutscher Orientalistentag, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany), September 18-22. 2016 Ottoman Soldiers in the Arabian Peninsula: Juristic Response to Rebellion. American Society for Legal History, Toronto, October 27-30. 2016 The Guardianship of the State: Wilāya and Ijtihād in the Jurisprudence of Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court. School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 5-6. 2015 Necessity and Ethical Hierarchy in Islamic Law. International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, Islamic Law and Ethics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, November 6-8. 2015 Legal Modernity and Islamic Law: Mecelle and Positive Legislation. The Institute for Global Law and Policy, Islamic Law and Empire, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 1-2. 4
2014 What is Ottoman Ḥanafism? Rethinking the State-Madhhab Paradigm. The International Conference of Ottoman Scholarship from Sahn-ı Seman to Darülfünün: Scholars, Institutions and Intellectual Products I: From the Conquest of Istanbul to the Establishment of the Süleymaniye Medreses. Istanbul University Faculty of Theology, Istanbul, Turkey, December 19-21. 2014 Rethinking Premodern Legal Authority in 20 th Century Egypt. Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 22-25. 2014 Legal Authority and State Power: Critical Notes on Early Modern Hanafi Jurisprudence. The Institute for Global Law and Policy, Heterodox Approaches to Islamic Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 2. 2014 Neither Desiring It, Nor Transgressing Its Limits: Necessitous Circumstances in Islamic Law. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics, Seattle, Washington, January 9-12. 2013 If Abū Ḥanīfa Were Here: Authority, Continuity, and Revision in Ḥanafī Jurisprudence in the late 19 th century CE. Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, October 10-13. 2013 The Mecelle: Sharīʿa, State, and Modernity: Fashioning and Refashioning of Islamic Law in the 19 th -20 th Centuries CE. Association of Muslim Social Scientists 42 nd Annual Conference, Department of Near Eastern Studies & Program of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, September 28. 2012 The Egyptian Inheritance Statute: The Irrelevance of Territoriality? The VII International Society for Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Ankara, Turkey, May 29- June 1. 2012 Universal Legal Maxims Second Annual Graduate Student Islamic Studies Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, February 17-19. 2010 Jurisprudence for Muslim Minorities: Theory and Practice. 10 th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 31-April 2. 2008 Shura, Democracy & Shuracracy: The Islamist Dilemma. Annual British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Conference, London School of Economics, London, UK, September 8-9. Panel Discussant 2017 Constitutional Limits on Executive Power: Race, Religion, and Immigration n American Today Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin, March 6. 5
2016 The Failed Turkish Coup and Its Aftermath, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin, September 15. 2016 ISIS: Navigating Conflicts with Non-State Actors, Texas International Law Journal, University of Texas School of Law, April 15. 2016 5 years later: Egypt After the Arab Spring, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, February 11. Panels Organized 2017 Organizer, Rethinking Late Ottoman Civilization Symposium, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, March 24-25. 2017 Organizer, Constitutional Limits on Executive Power: Race, Religion, and Immigration in America Today, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, March 6. 2016 Organizer, The Failed Turkish Coup and Its Aftermath, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, September 15. 2016 Organizer, 5 years later: Egypt After the Arab Spring, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, February 11. 2015 Organizer, State Craft and Law-Making in Imperial and Post-Imperial Muslim Polities, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Islamic Law and Empire, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 1-2. 2014 Organizer, Transmutations of the Sharīʿa: Fashioning and Refashioning of Islamic Law in 19th - 20th Century Egypt, Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 22-25. 2012 Co-organizer and panel chair, Perspectives on Female Agency in Classical Fiqh. Middle East Studies Association, Denver, CO, November 17-20. Panel Chair 2017 Panel chair, Urban Imaginaries: Governing through Housing, Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 18-21. 2016 Panel chair, Scenarios of Cosmopolitanism, Middle East Studies Association, Boston, MA, November 17-20. 6
2015 Panel chair, Late Ottoman Invocations of Politics, Education, and Science, Middle East Studies Association, Denver, CO, November 21-24. 2015 Panel chair, Patterns of Household Formation: Gender, Family, Law, Middle East Studies Association, Denver, CO, November 21-24. 2013 Panel chair and participant, Western Consortium Middle East Language Workshop, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 29-31. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Texas at Austin, Lecturer Islamic Law and Political Violence, Spring 2018 Islamic Law and Society, Fall 2016, Fall 2017 Arabic Readings in Islamic Texts, Fall 2016, Fall 2017 Modern Islamic Political Thought, Spring 2016 Rule of Law in Muslim Societies, Spring 2016 Comparative Middle Eastern Law, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018 Introduction to Islam, Fall 2015 Islamic Ethics, Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018 Late Ottoman State & Society, Fall 2015, Spring 2017 (graduate seminar) University of California, Santa Barbara, Faculty Fellow Vocabularies of Islamic Ethics, Spring 2015 The Arabic Qurʿān, Spring 2015 (undergraduate/graduate seminar taught in Arabic) Islam and Modernity, Winter 2015 Introduction to Islamic Law, Fall 2014 University of Arizona, Lecturer & Instructor of Record Islamic Civilization, Fall 2013 History of the Middle East (online), Summer 2013 & 2010 Elementary Arabic II, Spring 2013 The Religion of Islam, Summer 2012, 2011, 2010; Spring 2012; Winter 2011 & 2010 Intermediate Arabic I, Fall 2009 University of Arizona, Teaching Assistant The Religion of Islam, Fall 2011 & 2010, Spring 2011 & 2010 University of Edinburgh, Graduate Tutor Islamic History, Fall 2008 7
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS 2011-2013 Research Assistant for Scott C. Lucas, University of Arizona Project: proofreading, reviewing and appendix research for Abu Jaʿfar al- Ṭabarī s Selections from The Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qurʾan. Translated by Scott C Lucas. London: Islamic Texts Society, 2017. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION President Reviewer Islamic Law Section, The Association for the American Law Schools Arab Law Quarterly The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Journal of Religious History, University of Sydney Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East series, Syracuse University Press Conference Organization 2018 Conference Organizing Committee, International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (Helsinki, Finland) 2017 Organizer, Rethinking Late Ottoman Civilization, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, March 24-27. 2015 Organizer, Statecraft and Law-Making in Imperial and Post-Imperial Muslim Polities, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 1-2. 2013 Founder and Coordinator, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Graduate Colloquium Series, University of Arizona 2011 Conference chair and organizer, Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Organization, University of Arizona 8
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Advising Dual degree (MA/JD) program between UT Law and Department of Middle Eastern Studies Center for Middle Eastern Studies MA Program Co-Supervisor International Relations and Global Studies Undergraduate Major Adviser Mentor for Undergraduate Plan II Honors Program Symposium Department of Middle Eastern Studies Undergraduate Honors Adviser Thesis Judge, Liberal Arts College Thesis Competition (April, 2018) Administrative Islamic Studies curriculum development, Middle Eastern Studies Department Co-developer of the Center for the Study of Egypt Coordinator, Islamic Studies Colloquium Series Executive Committee of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 2015 Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Workshop, Harvard Law School, Doha, Qatar, January 2-11. 2013 Project GO ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Familiarization & Implications Workshop for Arabic, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 14-15. 2013 Western Consortium Middle East Language Workshop, Engaging Language & Culture Through Innovative Technologies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 29-31. 2012 Moral Foundations of the Law Seminar, Center on Religion and the Constitution, The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, August 5-11. 2008 Teaching Arabic to Adults: A Communicative Approach, The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 8-12. MEDIA COVERAGE Fear of Sharia: Harvard project aims to shed light on Islamic law, Middle East Eye, May 4, 2017. Late Hanafi Law in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman History Podcast, November 24, 2015. 9
LANGUAGES Arabic: native speaker English: near-native fluency Modern Turkish: intermediate reading, writing, and speaking knowledge Ottoman Turkish: intermediate reading knowledge German: elementary reading knowledge PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Society for Legal History Law and Society Association International Society for Islamic Legal Studies Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Middle East Studies Association American Academy of Religion Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics REFERENCES David Marcus 1885 Society Distinguished Scholar; Professor of Law James E. Rogers College of Law University of Arizona (520) 626-3915 david.marcus@law.arizona.edu Mohammad Fadel Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Jackman Law Building, Room J484 78 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5 416-946-0589 mohammad.fadel@utoronto.ca Asifa Quraishi-Landes Professor of Law University of Wisconsin Law School 975 Bascom Mall Madison, WI 53706 608-262-2240 asifa.quraishilandes@wisc.edu 10
Scott C. Lucas Associate Professor School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies University of Arizona 845 N. Park Ave. Rm #446 Tucson, AZ 85721 520-626-9562 sclucas@email.arizona.edu Kathleen M. Moore Professor of Religious Studies and Chair Department of Religious Studies Mail Code 3130 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3130 805-252-3090 kmoore@religion.ucsb.edu 11