Lena Salaymeh

Lena Salaymeh
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2019)
Academic background
Education
ThesisLate antique and medieval Islamic legal histories: contextual changes and comparative (re)considerations (2012[1])
Ira M. Lapidus
Academic work
Sub-discipline
Law and religion
Institutions

Lena Salaymeh is an American academic. Specializing in law and religion, she won the 2017 American Academy of Religion Book Award in Textual Studies for her 2016 debut book The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions and is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. She was director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law's Decolonial Law Project from 2019 to 2023.

Biography

Salaymeh studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained a BA in Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies and an MA and PhD in History, Legal & Middle Eastern.[2] She also obtained a JD from Harvard Law School.[2] Her doctoral dissertation Late antique and medieval Islamic legal histories: contextual changes and comparative (re)considerations was supervised by Ira M. Lapidus.[1]

Salaymeh worked at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor of Law.[2] She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law as a senior research fellow and founded their Decolonial Law Project,[3] serving as that program's director from 2019 to 2023.[4] She has also served as director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études's religious studies department.[4] She has also held several visiting positions,[4] including as a 2018-2019 Visiting Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center and as a 2020 British Academy-University of Oxford Global Professor.[3][5]

Salaymeh specializes in law and religion.[4] In 2016, her first[4] book, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions, was published by Cambridge University Press,[6] with severed of its parts inspired by her doctoral dissertation.[7] She won the 2017 American Academy of Religion Book Award in Textual Studies for her book.[6] In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Law.[8] She also lectured at the Brown University Center for Middle East Studies in February 2023.[9] She has written op-eds for Informed Comment and Opinio Juris.[10][11]

Works

  • The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions (2017)[a]

Notes

  1. ↑ Reviews of this book:[12][13][14]

References

  1. 1 2 Salaymeh, Lena (2012). Late antique and medieval Islamic legal histories: contextual changes and comparative (re)considerations (PhD thesis). University of California at Berkeley. Archived from the original on September 17, 2024. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Curriculum vitae of Lena Salaymeh" (PDF). en-law.tau.ac.il. Retrieved July 12, 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Robbins Fellow Lena Salaymeh Elected to Prestigious Chair". UC Berkeley Law. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lena SALAYMEH". École Pratique des Hautes Études (in French). Retrieved July 12, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Professor Lena Salaymeh". The British Academy. Retrieved July 12, 2026.
  6. 1 2 "AAR Book Awards". aarweb.org. Retrieved July 12, 2026.
  7. ↑ Salaymeh, Lena. "Note on the text" (PDF). The Beginnings of Islamic Law. Cambridge University Press.
  8. ↑ "Lena Salaymeh". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved July 12, 2026.
  9. ↑ Litman, David (December 13, 2023). "CAMERA Report: Anti-Israel Extremism and Corrupt Scholarship at Brown University". Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  10. ↑ Salaymeh, Lena (September 8, 2016). "Donald Trump's "sharia law" Bogeyman is more Islamophobia". Informed Comment. Archived from the original on February 8, 2026. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  11. ↑ Salaymeh, Lena (October 8, 2024). "Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: Massacring Civilians – Genocide as International Legal Conundrum". Opinio Juris. Retrieved July 13, 2026.
  12. ↑ Al-Azmeh, Aziz (February 1, 2018). "Lena Salaymeh. The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions". The American Historical Review. 123 (1): 346–347. doi:10.1093/ahr/123.1.346. ISSN 0002-8762.
  13. ↑ Fadel, Mohammad (2017). "Review of The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 85 (3): 844–847. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 44631262.
  14. ↑ Tomlins, Christopher (October 1, 2017). "Book review: The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions". Law, Culture and the Humanities. 13 (3): 493–495. doi:10.1177/1743872117716741. ISSN 1743-8721.
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