The aim of this exploratory and informal workshop is to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present. We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working … Continue reading Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
(Free and Open to the Public) About the Symposium The University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Symposium is an endeavor of the Shiʿi Studies Group, established in 2010, to provide an interdisciplinary, non-area-specific forum for the discussion of research on Shiʿism by faculty and graduate students at the University and beyond. The annual symposium aims to … Continue reading UChicago Shi’i Studies Symposium
A collaborative workshop by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. The workshop is free to attend, but places are limited. Pre-registration is required. To register, please email [email protected] before … Continue reading Workshop: Ḥadīth, Law and Theology in Early Shiʿīte Islam (London)
Submissions are solicited for a one-day symposium on "The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception," which will be held at The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) on Monday, April 8, 2019. Connections between the Qurʾān and Ethiopia are vast and varied. On the one hand, Ethiopia provides an important historical context (among many others) … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception
This session's date is TBD. Panelists will include Raha Rafii, PhD Candidate in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at UPenn, Amir Toft, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago and research fellow at Yale Law School, and Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law and History at Harvard Law School and Harvard University.
A workshop organized by the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. To register, please email [email protected].
The conference brings together the disciplines of law, anthropology and Islamic studies, with all of their multiple entanglements. Conference papers address field observation, as well as methods and theories that provide insights into norms that are often given Islamic justification. The discussion will range from the traditional domain of family-related regulations regarding commercial transactions to … Continue reading Conference: Law, Islam and Anthropology
The Research Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Tehran is inviting abstracts for an international conference on “Criminal Law Developments in the Muslim-Majority Countries in the Light of Interaction between Shari’a and Law,” to be held on March 5th & 6th, 2019. The judicial and legal structures of Muslim-majority countries have changed drastically in … Continue reading Call for Papers: Criminal Law Developments in Muslim-Majority Countries
Since 1967, MESA has held an annual meeting in the fall where members gather to share research. MESA has been the hub for scholarly exchange from its first meeting at The University of Chicago in 1967 where a small group gathered for eight sessions to MESA's 50th anniversary meeting in Boston in 2016 where 312 … Continue reading Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2018 Annual Meeting
Held in central London, this conference will raise key issues surrounding religious arbitration, the veil and gender segregation at schools and universities, including as part of the religious-Right's assault on women's rights. It will also highlight the voices of people on the frontlines of resistance, the gains made by secularists both in the UK and … Continue reading Conference: Sharia, Segregation and Secularism
