Mar 5 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Seminar: “The Archive Question: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia?” Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University
Mar 6 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Lecture: “Black Muslims in Activism in South Africa,” Rhea Rahman, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College
Mar 10 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lecture: “Disinformation, Defamation, and Islamic Values,” Zahra Takshid, Reginald F. Lewis Fellow, Harvard Law School
Mar 19 March 19, 2020 - March 20, 2020 Conference: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Mar 25 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lecture: “Reason-Giving and the Duty to Obey in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence,” Omar Farahat, Assistant Professor, McGill University Faculty of Law
Mar 25 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Book Talk: “Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire,” Lâle Can, Assistant Professor, Department of History, The City College of New York
Mar 30 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Middle East Beyond Borders Workshop: “Jewish Minorities, Muslim Ascendency, and Foreign Pressure: The 1847 Trial of Batto Sfez in Tunis,” Laura Thompson, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion
Mar 31 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lecture: “The Revival of Shāfiʿism in Damascus, 11th-13th Century,” Mariam Sheibani, Research Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
Apr 7 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lecture: “An Islamic Legal Geography of Crime and the Sanctuary in Nineteenth-Century Iran,” Farzin Vejdani, Associate Professor, Ryerson University
Apr 16 All day Lecture: Sherman Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California