The Brown Bag Lunch Series on "Disability in the Arab World" at Georgetown University aims to explore disability as an issue of social justice and human diversity in the context of the Arab world. Join the second session via Zoom next Tuesday, February 11, from 12.30-1.30 pm, featuring Halla Attallah, a doctoral student in Georgetown … Continue reading Remote Talk: “Disability in the Arab World,” Georgetown University
Joseph Hill, University of Alberta, will be presenting on "Women Islamic leaders in West Africa" in this week's installment of the "Islam in Africa Lecture Series." Islam in Africa Lecture Series Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic … Continue reading Lecture: “Women Islamic leaders in West Africa,” Islam in Africa Lecture Series, Harvard Divinity School
Please join us for our first Roy Reminisces—tea and cookies with Professor Roy Mottahedeh! Monday, February 24 from 1-3 pm at 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102. Prof. Mottahedeh will join … Continue reading Open House: “Roy Reminisces with Professor Roy Mottahedeh,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
MEBB WORKSHOP: DAMASCUS RESTORED: SHĀFIʿISM IN 5TH/11TH AND 6TH/12TH CENTURY DAMASCUS Feb 24 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Barker Center 114 Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Workshop: “Damascus Restored: Shafi’ism in 5th/11th and 6th/12th Century Damascus,” Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
CMES and the Committee on Medieval Studies present a book talk Narrating Muslim Sicily War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World William E. Granara Gordon Gray Professor of the … Continue reading Book Talk: “Narrating Muslim Sicily War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World,” William E. Granara, Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
BOOK TALK: “NARRATING MUSLIM SICILY: WAR AND PEACE IN THE MEDIEVAL MUSLIM WORLD” Feb 25 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St William E. … Continue reading Book Talk: “Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World”, William E. Granara, Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. LAWRENCE ROSEN, WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY EMERITUS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY … Continue reading Lecture: “Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber Example,” Lawrence Rosen, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Princeton University
ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. Details to follow. DARRYL LI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES … Continue reading Book Talk: “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity,” Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Nurul Huda Mohd Razif, Evans Fellow, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Mar 4 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Austin 102 Intimacy … Continue reading Talk: “Intimacy Under Surveillance: Moral Policing & the State in Contemporary Malaysia,” Nurul Huda Mohd Razif, Evans Fellow, University of Cambridge.
