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Talk: “Malcolm X, Islam and the Souls of Black Folk” by Dr. Zain Abdullah, Temple University, March 25, 2022 @ 5:00 pm ET

Malcolm X is one of the 20th century’s most intriguing figures, becoming a standard in Black Studies, street culture and global affairs, with Turkey recently changing its new American embassy’s street to “Malcolm X Avenue.” Still, his deep encounter with religion is routinely ignored. Dr. Zain Abdullah places Malcolm X in the context of Islam … Continue reading Talk: “Malcolm X, Islam and the Souls of Black Folk” by Dr. Zain Abdullah, Temple University, March 25, 2022 @ 5:00 pm ET

Panel: Hadith Legacy: The Content and the Social Network of Hadith in Islamic Intellectual History, Syracuse University, April 6, 2022 @ 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Hadith, the first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and deeds, is one of the two major sources for the Muslims apart from the Qur’an. This panel will present two analyses of hadith legacy. Recep Senturk, the first panelist, is going to analyze the Hadith transmission network from a sociological perspective as a chain of … Continue reading Panel: Hadith Legacy: The Content and the Social Network of Hadith in Islamic Intellectual History, Syracuse University, April 6, 2022 @ 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Mr. Shivan Fazil and Dr. Bahar Baser, April 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Friday April 8th, 11 am CDT   Mr. Shivan Fazil, Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Dr. Bahar Baser, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Durham University Editors of Youth Identity, Politics and Change in Contemporary Kurdistan (Transnational Press London, 2021) Links for series will be sent to all AMECYS listserv members, so make sure signed up for the … Continue reading AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Mr. Shivan Fazil and Dr. Bahar Baser, April 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Conference: Harvard Graduate Conference on International History, CON-IH, April 16, 2022

Panel #4: Institutions Saturday, April 16, 2022 (9:30 am-12:00 pm EDT) Nicole Yow Wei, Chulalongkorn University “The Invention of the ‘Literary’: Colonial Malay World Print Culture as a Cradle for Novel Indian Ocean Textual Socialities” Tathagata Dutta, Tufts University “Imperial Finance: Bank of Bengal and the Imperial Bank of India Across the Indian Ocean” Carmen … Continue reading Conference: Harvard Graduate Conference on International History, CON-IH, April 16, 2022

AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis, Associate Professor of Anthropology, May 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Friday May 13, 11 am CDT   Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Richmond Author of Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2021) Links for series will be sent to all AMECYS listserv members, so make sure signed up for the listserv! Digital medium for series … Continue reading AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis, Associate Professor of Anthropology, May 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Online lecture: ʿAlid and Kharijite Revolts, May 17, 2022 @ 10:00 am ET

From the organizers: Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to the next instalment in our online lecture series on social contention in the pre-modern period. On 17 May, at 4 pm CEST, Teresa Bernheimer will give a paper on "ʿAlid and Kharijite Revolts in the First Two Centuries of Islam: A Comparative Re-Assessment". To register and … Continue reading Online lecture: ʿAlid and Kharijite Revolts, May 17, 2022 @ 10:00 am ET

Tenth Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Aga Khan Centre in London, International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, May 19-21, 2022

The Society for Islamic Legal Studies holds a conference on Islamic law every three years. The 2021 conference has been postponed to 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will take place at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. As the date nears, the Call for Papers and … Continue reading Tenth Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Aga Khan Centre in London, International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, May 19-21, 2022

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