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Webinar: “’I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You’: The Role of Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzi’s Political Thought,” Han Hsien Liew, Harvard University, March 11, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

March 11, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Harvard University Association for Global Political Thought and CMES present

“’I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You’: The Role of Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzi’s Political Thought” with Han Hsien Liew, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Arizona State University

Friday, March 11, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Online

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Event link: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/i-put-my-fear-you-above-my-fear-you-role-emotions-ibn-al-jawzis-political-thought

Han Hsien Liew is an intellectual historian of the premodern Islamic world and is currently Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His research interests include medieval Islamic political thought; premodern Islamic scholarly culture and transmission of knowledge; Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir); and Arabic-Islamic historical and biographical writings.

His current book project examines the relationship between preaching and political thought in medieval Islam. It focuses on the political discourses of Ibn al-Jawzi, a twelfth-century Muslim religious scholar and preacher in late Abbasid Baghdad. Through an intertextual analysis of Ibn al-Jawzi’s political writings, preaching manuals, collections of sermons, and historical and biographical writings, this book sparks new approaches in the study of Islamic political thought and probes the interconnections between politics, rhetoric, and emotions.

Liew’s research articles have been published in “Arabica, the Journal of the American Oriental Society”, and “New Trends in Qur’anic Studies: Text, Context and Interpretation” (edited by Mun’im Sirry). He is also the recipient of the Middle East Studies Association Graduate Student Paper Prize (2017), the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) Junior Fellowship at Koç University (2016–2017), and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Fellowship for Islamic Studies at Harvard University (2012–2013).

Before joining ASU, Liew was Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute (2019–2020) and Postdoctoral Graduate Writing Fellow at Harvard University (2018–2019). He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is originally from Penang, Malaysia.

Co-sponsors: Harvard University Association for Global Political Thought, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: Liz Flanagan<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>

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March 11, 2022
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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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