Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 4:00pm to 5:30pm Location: via Zoom RSVP Here Teren Sevea, Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Topic: AKIA Lecture Series: “Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture,” Jennifer Pruitt Date and Time: November 18, 2021 6:00 pm EST Description: “Building the … Continue reading Webinar: “Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture” by Jennifer Pruitt (Wisconsin Madison), November 18, 2021 @ 6 pm
From the organizers: We invite submissions for an international conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE). The Embedding Conquest (EmCo) team has been investigating the social, political, administrative, … Continue reading Call for Papers: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire, 6-8 December 2021
From the organizers: Please join us for our next seminar of the virtual series entitled “Race, Race-thinking and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies” A SEMINAR SERIES We aim … Continue reading Seminar: “Skin and Blood? Blackness and Arabness in Middle Eastern Perspectives by Rachel Schine (NYU AbuDhabi) & Peter Webb (Leiden University),” Princeton University, December 14, 2021 @ 12:00 – 1:30 PM
On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, Dr. Hedayat Heikal will speak about inheritance and personal status laws in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia in a presentation titled … Continue reading Webinar: “Inheritance versus Personal Status: Shifting National Strategies in Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia,” by Dr. Hedayat Heikal, February 8, 2022 @ 12:00 – 1:00 pm
From the organizers: What can legal disputes tell us about the history of Muslim worship? How did battles over mosques and endowments redraw the lines of sectarianism—and secularism—in South Asia? … Continue reading Interdisciplinary Debates: The Mosques of Colonial South Asia by Sana Haroon, Dartmouth College, February 8, 2022 @ 12:15 – 1:15 pm
You are cordially invited to the second talk in our online lecture series, 'Rethinking Social Contention in the Early Islamicate World', which will take place next Tuesday, 15 Feb, at … Continue reading Webinar: Hunger, Heresy and Rebellion in ʿAbbasid Arabia, Hamburg University,February 15, 2022 @ 10:00 am
Title: “Afghanistan After the Collapse: Where Are We Now, and What Comes Next?” Date & Time: February 15, 11am-12:15 pm ET Location: On Zoom (register in advance) Abstract: On the … Continue reading Webinar: Afghanistan After the Collapse: Where Are We Now, and What Comes Next?, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, February 15, 2022 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
“Contesting the Caliphate: Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West” In the twelfth century, as Iberian Christian kingdoms fought to expand into the peninsula’s Muslim territories and the Almohad caliphate … Continue reading Webinar: “Contesting the Caliphate: Genealogies of Power in the Islamic West” by Abigail Balbale, Harvard University, March 4, 2022 @ 1:30 PM
“The Making of an Islamic City-State: Genealogy, Religion and Sovereignty in Nasrid Granada” Mohamad Ballan (PhD, UChicago 2019) is currently an Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Stony Brook University. His research … Continue reading Webinar: “The Making of an Islamic City-State: Genealogy, Religion and Sovereignty in Nasrid Granada” by Mohamad Ballan, Harvard University, March 7, 2022 @ 12:00 PM
