ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. Details to follow. MARIAM SHEIBANI, RESEARCH FELLOW, PROGRAM IN ISLAMIC LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL MAR 31 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | AUSTIN 102 The Revival of Shāfiʿism in Damascus, 11th-13th Century
ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. Details to follow. FARZIN VEJDANI, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RYERSON UNIVERSITY APR 7 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | LOCATION TBD An Islamic Legal Geography of Crime and the Sanctuary in Nineteenth-Century Iran
ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. Details to follow. SHERMAN JACKSON, KING FAISAL CHAIR IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CULTURE AND PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AND AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA APR 16 | TIME TBD | LOCATION TBD Title TBDm
ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. Details to follow. DANA LEE, RESEARCH FELLOW, PROGRAM IN ISLAMIC LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL APR 21 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | AUSTIN 102 On Fences and Neighbors: Property, Nuisance, and Resort to the Law in … Continue reading Lecture: “On Fences and Neighbors: Property, Nuisance, and Resort to the Law in Islamic Legal History, 6th/12th through 8th/14th Centuries,” Dana Lee, Research Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
BOOK TALK: "REVIVING THE WAQF: PROPERTY, LAW, AND RELIGION IN MODERN BEIRUT" Apr 22 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St Nada Moumtaz, Assistant Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, University of Toronto This event is part of the CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series. Sponsored by the … Continue reading Book Talk: “Reviving the Waqf: Property, Law, and Religion in Modern Beirut,” Nada Moumtaz, Assistant Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
MEBB WORKSHOP: CHILD CUSTODY DOCTRINE IN AL-ANDALUS, 11TH – 15TH C. Apr 27 | 6:00 PM – 7: 30 PM | Barker Center 114 (12 Quincy St) Janan Delgado, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion The Middle East Beyond Borders (MEBB) workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Workshop: “Child Custody Doctrine in Al-Andalus, 11th-15th C,” Janan Delgado, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion
Although this year's Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria, BC has been postponed until 2021, several of the workshops planned for the weekend between the two weeks are moving forward in virtual format. We put out a call for participation earlier this year for the #Right2Left workshop, focusing on digital work in cultures where some of … Continue reading Call for Submissions: “#Right2Left Workshop,” Digital Humanities Summer Institute
SEMINAR (VIA ZOOM): "RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF PLAGUE IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS" BY NÜKHET VARLIK Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:30pm Location: Please RSVP for Zoom link Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University - Newark and the University of South Carolina RSVP HERE
Call for Editors: Continuity and Change Dr Chris Briggs and Dr Julie Marfany will shortly be coming to the end of their tenure as editors of Continuity and Change (C&C). Cambridge University Press is now inviting applications for their successors. The deadline for applications is 1 May, 2020. Now in its 34th volume, C&C aims to define … Continue reading Call for Editors: “Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies,” Cambridge University Press
DIRECTOR'S SERIES LECTURE (VIA ZOOM): "THE 'SPANISH' INFLUENZA IN EGYPT" BY CHRISTOPHER ROSE Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:30pm Location: RSVP for Zoom link Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin Abstract: The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every … Continue reading Seminar (Via Zoom): “The ‘Spanish Influenza’ in Egypt,” Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University
