Law Student Groups
National Muslim Law Students Association
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Date Started |
2002 |
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Organization Name |
National Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Mustafa Kamal |
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E-mail Address |
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Website |
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Listserv |
nmlsa@yahoogroups.com |
The National Muslim Law Students Association is a national organization dedicated to the comprehensive professional, spiritual, and academic development of all law students. NMLSA aims to create a national network of law students and Muslim Law Student Associations.
Through its programs and contacts with other national legal organizations, NMLSA aims to promote excellence and diversity in the legal profession and active involvement of Muslim law students and attorneys in shaping the American legal landscape to promote civil rights and justice for all.
American University Washington College of Law
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Date Started |
1998 |
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Organization Name |
Washington College of Law Islamic Legal Forum |
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Contact Name |
Alyan Hyder |
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E-mail Address Website |
Listserv WCL-ILF-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Islamic Legal Forum (ILF) aims to create greater knowledge of Islamic law and Islamic tradition via intellectual exchange and discussion. ILF is open to all students and has sought to create a space for addressing issues concerning Islamic Law, Muslims in the U.S. and international law as it relates to countries whose legal systems are based on Islamic jurisprudence. The organization also seeks to provide spiritual support for Muslim law students.
Activities: Some past activites include guest lecturers on various Islamic Law topics (intro to law, human rights, conscientous objection, clash of civilizations), dinners, and co-sponsored community service activities with other minority organizations.
UC Berkeley School of Law
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Date Started |
2001 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Azmina Jasani, 2006-06 President |
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E-mail Address |
boaltmsa AT law.berkeley.edu |
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Phone |
n/a |
The Boalt Hall Muslim Law Students Association (Boalt MLSA) aims to provide for the needs and
interests of Muslim students ensconced within Boalt Hall. The Boalt MLSA arranges for a prayer
room during the day, sponsors lectures on Islamic law and the Muslim world, maintains relationships
with the administration to apprise them of Muslim students' needs, and welcomes newly admitted
Muslim law students. In the past, it has successfully petitioned to have an Islamic law course,
taught by UC Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian, offered at Boalt Hall. The Boalt MLSA works
closely with the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers (BAAML), a growing group of Muslim
lawyers and law students that meets periodically for professional, activist, networking, and social ends.
University of Chicago Law School
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Date Started |
2003 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Ahsan Shaikh |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
n/a |
The Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) offers a wide range of programming to satisfy the diverse social, cultural, religious, and intellectual needs of Muslim students. In addition, the MLSA will strive to introduce the Law School community to issues of importance to Muslims worldwide. We aim to sponsor speakers on such issues as Islamic legal topics, church-state issues, civil rights, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and hate crimes. In order to achieve this, we will invite civil rights lawyers, public officials, and prominent academicians from across the nation. Our cultural and religious programming will include a weekly Friday prayer, weekly Quranic studies classes, holiday celebrations, and Ramadan iftaars (breaking the fast dinners).
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/current/studentorgs/mlsa.html
CUNY School of Law
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Date Started |
November 2002 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Dedric Johnson |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
n/a |
Mailing address: Muslim Law Students Association, CUNY School of Law, 65-21 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11367.
Our organization addresses the spiritual, political, and social needs of all Muslim law students. Furthermore, we are dedicated to enhancing the diversity of the law school by increasing awareness of the legal issues that affect the Muslim community. In addition, the MLSA will provide a forum for career networking for Muslim law students, work with other student organization to facilitate dialogue, organize events to enrich student life, and offer outreach to the Muslim community.
Columbia Law School
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Date Started |
2000 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Noera Ayaz; Nadia Janjua |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
N/A |
The purpose of the MLSA is to provide for the social, religious, and intellectual needs and interests of Muslim students at the law school and to increase exposure to domestic and international legal, cultural, and political issues affecting Muslim communities. Activities held this year include a panel on secret evidence in US courts, two Islamic law seminars, a screening of Malcolm X, and a Ramadan iftar co-sponsored with the MSA. We also hope to welcome admitted Muslim law students and to increase law school course offerings in Islamic law.
Fordham Law School
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Date Started |
February 2002 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Seema Saifee; Leena Khandwala |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
(646) 507 0152; (212) 995-5870 |
The Muslim Law Students
Association is dedicated to exploring Islamic legal issues and bringing a
greater understanding of Islam and the legal profession to all members of
Fordham Law School and the community. The MLSA seeks to provide for the
cultural and religious needs of Muslim law students and promotes the
participation of all Fordham students through a diverse program of
activities. In Spring 2001 the MLSA organized a series of lectures entitled
“Religion and Human Rights: Perspectives on the WTC Tragedy.” The first
event, “The Role of Islam in the Aftermath of 9/11,” helped destabilize
stereotypes about Islam perpetuated by the media post-9/11. The second
event, entitled “America’s New War: Attack on Terrorism or Attack on Civil
Liberties? An Inside Look at The USA Patriot Act, Racial Profiling, and the
Detention of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians Post-9/11,” featured lawyers
and activists who work closely with detainees, immigrants, and Americans
facing increased discrimination after September 11th.
In Fall 2002, we are organizing a dinner commemorating the beginning of
Ramadan and providing an atmosphere for the Fordham faculty and the larger
community to meet the MLSA.
George Washington University Law School
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Date Started |
October 2001 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Samia Naseem |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
(202) 223-3839 |
The Muslim Law Student Association provides a religious, social, and career
network for Muslim law students both within the Law School and in the larger
Muslim legal community. MLSA is dedicated to enriching the intellectual
diversity of the Law School by hosting events related to Islamic law and
other issues affecting Muslims both domestically and internationally. MLSA
works in conjunction with a broad-based coalition of student organizations
on campus and in the Washington, D.C. area.
Georgetown University Law Center
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Georgetown Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Fuad Rana; Syma Ahmad; Deeba Malick |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
N/A |
The MLSA has hosted introductory events to meet and greet incoming law students. The MLSA intends on holding a Ramadan dinner, weekly/bi-weekly pizza lunches, speaker events, as well as an event during Amnesty International’s Human Rights Week.
Harvard Law School
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Date Started |
2000 |
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Organization Name |
Harvard Islamic Law Forum |
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Contact Name |
Osman Handoo |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
(617) 388-3234 |
Activities in the past included a lecture/event on Sufism.
Hofstra University School of Law
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Amber Meadors-Fouda, President |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
N/A |
Mailing Address: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549
Our mission is to increase effective Muslim participation and representation in the legal field by providing a supportive atmosphere for incoming and current Muslim students, as well as alumni. MLSA aims to provide professional networking opportunities, maintain a growing alumni network, and build a bridge between Muslims and non-Muslims through education and cultural exchange. Through these various forums, MLSA hopes to address common misconceptions and educate the Hofstra Law School community about Islam, Islamic law, Muslim society, and the social and legal issues Muslims face in the US and abroad.
Howard University School of Law
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Date Started |
2002 |
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Organization Name |
Howard Muslim Law Student Association |
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Contact Name |
M. Khurram Baig |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
N/A |
This organization is in its infancy and is in the process of laying the groundwork for future projects.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, College of Law
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Date Started |
1996 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
N/A |
MLSA is a student organization focused providing a support network for Muslim law students and outreach programs to address the legal issues that face Muslims in the US.
Loyola Law School (Los Angeles, CA)
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Date Started |
2005 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Firasat Tar, Faizan Hanif |
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Email Address |
Tar_Firasat@hotmail.com; Faizan Hanif@lls.edu |
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Phone |
310-980-4786 |
The University of Michigan Law School
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Date Started |
1987 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
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The MLSA as founded to provide a forum for the discussion of issues pertinent to the Muslim community on a local, national, and international level. Like the rest of the Muslim world, MLSA is comprised of believers from vastly diverse backgrounds. MLSA provides fellowship for Muslim law students through monthly meetings, community service projects, and events celebrating religious holidays. MLSA coordinates many of their activities with the undergraduate chapter of the Muslim Students Association. MLSA also organizes opportunities to meet with other student organizations to discuss subjects of mutual interest. The meetings are open to all law students interested in Muslims and the religion of Islam. The website is http://students.law.umich.edu/mlsa/
New York University School of Law
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Islamic Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Hissan Bajwa |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
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ILSA seeks to
foster a community and serve the social, religious, and intellectual needs
of the Muslim students at the New York University School of Law. We also
intend to provide a much needed forum open to all students, staff and
faculty designed to encourage free dialogue and debate on any number of
issues relating to Islamic law, society and the politics concerning the U.S.
and the Muslim world.
Northwestern University School of Law
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Date Started |
2000 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Student Association |
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Contact Name |
Rihan Javid |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
N/A |
The purpose of the MLSA is to provide for the social, religious, and intellectual needs and interests of Muslim students at the law school and to increase exposure to domestic and international legal, cultural, and political issues affecting Muslim communities. This past year we co-sponsored a Middle East Dialogue with the Jewish Law Student Association, co-sponsored a Ramadan dinner open to the Northwestern community with the Northwestern University Medical Muslim Student Association, and sponsored three students to attend the NAML conference in Washington D.C. InshAllah we hope to increase our membership and participate more actively with other MSA's in the Chicago area and the Chicago Muslim Bar Association.
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Student Association (MLSA) |
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Contact Name |
Asim Haque, Ali Athar |
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E-mail Address |
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Phone |
N/A |
The Muslim Law Students Association is an organization open to the entire student body at the Moritz College of Law. The Association is dedicated to intellectual and academic pursuits pertaining to, in its most broad interpretation, the religion of Islam and law generally. The Association hopes to add enrichment to an already intelligent and socially aware populous at the Moritz College of Law.
Syracuse University
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Zahra Aljabri, Salman Ravala |
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Email Address |
zmaljabr@syr.edu, msravala@syr.edu |
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Phone |
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Description |
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University of Pennsylvania (Penn Law)
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Educational & Cultural Association |
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Contact Name |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
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Description |
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University of Tennessee College of Law
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association of the University of Tennessee |
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Contact Name |
Rana Khandeker |
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Email Address |
nkhandek@utk.edu |
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Phone |
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Description |
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The University of Texas School of Law
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Date Started |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Student Association |
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Contact Name |
Angela Katherine Caras; Afreen Rehana Ahmed |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
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Description |
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Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Date Started |
September 2002 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Association |
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Contact Name |
Dena Zakaria |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
(215) 888-8689 |
This is an organization dedicated to the support and education of Muslim law students and the law school community at large.
Villanova University School of Law
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Date Started |
September 2000 |
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Organization Name |
Islamic Law Forum |
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Contact Name |
Salman Al-Sudairi |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
(267) 237-7571 |
The purpose of the Islamic Law Forum is to create a greater knowledge of Islamic law and the Islamic tradition via intellectual exchange and discussion. The Islamic Law Forum is open to students of all faiths and seeks to create a place within the Villanova community for the discussion of all matters relating to the study of Islamic law, Islam, and legal issues affecting Muslim countries and communities. Past activities have included speakers and group Iftar.
Yale University
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Date Started |
May 2002 |
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Organization Name |
Muslim Law Students Educational and Cultural Association |
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(MLSA/MECA) |
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Contact Name |
Intisar Rabb |
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Email Address |
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Phone |
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The first MLSA activity is a reading group at the law school called “The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence in the Western Legal Tradition”. The organization is also planning on attending the NAML conference. The MLSA also holds activities such as jumu’ah prayers and tajweed classes in conjunction with Yale’s undergraduate MSA.