The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of fields within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: The Quran in the American Imagination
Summary: In this workshop, researchers will learn how to organize, manipulate, and visualize their data. We will first focus on good data organization practices and use spreadsheets to tidy and wrangle several datasets. We will then manipulate, clean, and enhance our data in OpenRefine, a powerful tool for working with messy data. Finally, we will … Continue reading Harvard Workshop: Research Methods in Islamic Studies
What is Shariah's place in American intellectual life? What role can academics and academic institutions play in public discussions of this contentious topic? In this lecture, Dr. Abou El Fadl will offer his analysis, informed by decades of research and teaching on Islamic law, on the past, present, and future of the study of Shariah … Continue reading Princeton Lecture: Shariah at the University (Khaled Abou El Fadl)
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of fields within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries
“A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī" — Eric Schluessel (PhD ’16), Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Politics, University of Montana Room S250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/pages/iaas-lecture-series
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of fields within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
"Al-Ghazālīand the Epistemology of Legal Analogy (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law" By Felicitas Opwis, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University Location: William James, Room 1550
Mahindra Humanities Center, Persian and Persianate Studies: "From Shah Jahan to Nadir Shah: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi" Abhishek Kaicker is a historian of South Asia in the … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi
The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents: "Islamic legalities across the longue durée: A preliminary historical epistemology of Islamic law" By Anver Emon, Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Anver M. Emon studies … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Islamic Legalities Across the Longue Durée
"The Message and the Messengers: Artistic Illustrations of the Qur’an and the Prophets in Islamic Manuscripts," featuring Firestone Library’s collection Dr. Tehseen Thaver, Asst Prof. of Religion, Princeton University Dr. Christiane Gruber, Prof. and Assoc Chair, History of Art, University of Michigan Location: Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University
