Name: Workshop session: Rushain Abbasi, “The Prophet and the Profane: An Inquiry into the Boundaries of Prophetic Authority”
Start: 2019-11-18T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-18T23:59:59-05:00

September 2019

Conference: Africa, Globalization and the Muslim Worlds, Harvard Divinity School

September 19, 2019 - September 21, 2019

Harvard Divinity School

Africa, Globalization and the Muslim Worlds Sep 19 – Sep 21 | Harvard Divinity School Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, the Harvard Divinity School, and the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University. Scholarship on globalization of Islamic Africa has been focused either on merely describing (if not … Continue reading Conference: Africa, Globalization and the Muslim Worlds, Harvard Divinity School

Seminar: History and Economics “Constructing the Index of Arabs – Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia,” Center for History and Economics

September 25, 2019 @ 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge Street

Seminar: History and Economics Constructing the Index of Arabs - Colonial Imaginaries in Southeast Asia Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore Sep 25 | 4.30pm | CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge Street Sponsored by the Center for History and Economics.

Seminar: “Gender and the Curriculum in the Islamic Studies Classroom,”

September 26, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Seminar: Gender and the Curriculum in the Islamic Studies Classroom Kecia Ali, Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University Sep 26 | 4.00 – 5.30pm | Location TBD Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program.

October 2019

Lecture: Slavery and Abolition in Islamic Law, Rutgers University

October 8, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Rutgers Law School, Center For Security, Race And Rights

Register for this event through Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/y5zfqydr Watch this lecture live-streaming on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8eStkmdNlo

Islamic Law Lecture Series: Maya Shatzmiller, The Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

October 22, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Harvard Law School, Austin Hall

Throughout the academic year, the Program in Islamic Law hosts an "Islamic Law Lecture Series," in which distinguished faculty and fellows present their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. In the first installment of the Program in Islamic Law's "Islamic Law Lecture Series," Maya Shatzmiller , Professor, Western University, will present on her … Continue reading Islamic Law Lecture Series: Maya Shatzmiller, The Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

Lecture: “Anglo-Persian Texts and the Colonial Understanding of Religion,” Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

October 24, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

"Anglo-Persian Texts and the Colonial Understanding of Religion" What: Lecture by Carl Ernst, William R. Keenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Where: William James Hall 1550 When: October 24, 2019, 4-5:30pm

November 2019

Talk: Professor Marcus Milwright, “The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in early Islam”

November 5, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Prof. Marcus Milwright, "The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in early Islam" Tue 5 Nov, 6pm G.06, 50 George Square University of Edinburgh The prominent role played by writing in the visual cultures of the Islamic world is, of course, well known. Ornamental scripts adorn buildings and objects of … Continue reading Talk: Professor Marcus Milwright, “The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in early Islam”

Islamic Law Lecture Series: Dana Lee, The Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

November 12, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Harvard Law School, Austin Hall

Throughout the academic year, the Program in Islamic Law puts on an "Islamic Law Lecture Series" in which distinguished faculty and fellows present their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. In the second installment of the Program in Islamic Law's "Islamic Law Lecture Series," Dana Lee, Research Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, will … Continue reading Islamic Law Lecture Series: Dana Lee, The Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

Book Talk: Islamic Criminal Law in Conversation with Kamali’s “Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England”

November 13, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Harvard Law School Milstein West A/B, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

Join the Harvard Law School Library community and Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Faculty Director, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, among other scholars, in a conversation around Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 31, 2019), a recent publication by Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Assistant Professor of Law … Continue reading Book Talk: Islamic Criminal Law in Conversation with Kamali’s “Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England”

Workshop session: Rushain Abbasi, “The Prophet and the Profane: An Inquiry into the Boundaries of Prophetic Authority”

November 18, 2019

Rushain Abbasi, "The Prophet and the Profane: An Inquiry into the Boundaries of Prophetic Authority" When: Monday, November 18th What: Workshop Session hosting Rushain Abbasi (PhD Candidate, NELC), who will workshop a chapter of his dissertation entitled, "The Prophet and the Profane: An Inquiry into the Boundaries of Prophetic Authority". Dr. Dana Lee (Research Fellow, Program in Islamic … Continue reading Workshop session: Rushain Abbasi, “The Prophet and the Profane: An Inquiry into the Boundaries of Prophetic Authority”