The three-day intensive course in Digital Islamic Humanities is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be offered by Dr Maxim Romanov (Universität Wien) and will be held immediately before the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Ghent University, in collaboration with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities … Continue reading Course: Digital Islamic Humanities
This workshop takes place within the project Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? (EURO-EXPERT) funded by the European Research Council and directed by Livia Holden. This workshop explores cultural expertise in the ancient and modern history of expert witnessing. The stress of this workshop will be on development and change of culture-related expert witnessing, … Continue reading Workshop: Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History
The first day of the conference, July 5, will be themed. The theme of this part of the conference will be Historiography/Adab. The following two days of the conference (July 6 and 7) will be structured in pre-organized panels that will focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of … Continue reading Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
As a global religion, Islam and its jurisprudence have offered heterogeneous responses to a range of questions facing different faiths and communities. Modernity imposed new questions upon religious scholars, theologians and philosophers, demanding of them a new version of pluralism in the theological and political arenas. While doctrinal or philosophical exclusivism rejects “the other” in … Continue reading Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
Europe’s past is overwhelmingly monarchical, yet the monarchies that remain in place today hardly resemble those that governed Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. Modernity has transformed monarchy from a matter of unquestioned and often sacred fact to a matter of largely secular and usually democratic choice. If the words remain the same … Continue reading Call for Papers: Monarchy and Modernity, 1500-1945
We are inviting advanced doctoral students and early career researchers in the area of Islamic legal studies, to apply to participate in the USPPIP Autumn School. USPPIP is a collaborative project of the universities of Exeter, Bergen, Göttingen, and Leiden. The project (running from 2016 to 2018) aims to explore how the past is employed … Continue reading Call for Applications: Autumn School: Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice
West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century Thursday, September 13, 2018 Welcome Address 5.30-5.45 PM David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School HDS Faculty Grant Program Janet Gyatso, Academic Dean of Harvard Divinity School Keynote Lecture 5.45-7.00 PM Ousmane Kane, “The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West … Continue reading Conference: West Africa and the Maghreb (Harvard University)
This conference is a follow-up to a series of conversations on the relations between historiography, ideology, and law that took place at the University of Helsinki in March 2018. Among other things, the Boston College conference will take up a set of questions about the recent trajectory of critical legal history, as well as about … Continue reading Conference: Historiography/Ideology/Law II
The program for the "Understanding Shari’a: Perfect Past, Imperfect Present" (USPPIP) end-of-project conference is available here. The conference is free to attend but registration is necessary. Please register by sending an email to [email protected] detailing which days/sessions you will be attending. Registration is open until 1 pm UK time on Friday, September 21st. Those attending … Continue reading Conference: Uses of the Past in Islamic Law
The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations is hosting Sharia in Europe? — In Anticipation of the ECtHR Ruling on the Molla Sali v Greece Case on Monday 8 October 2018, 12:30-14:30. Abstracts Sharia Law in Europe: A Greek Case Before the ECtHR that May Bring Changes Konstantinos Tsitselikis, University of … Continue reading Lecture: Aga Khan University: Sharia in Europe?
