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
Join us for the Program in Islamic Law's Islamic Law Speaker Series! Prof. Issam Eido (Vanderbilt University) will present "Pre-Canonical Islamic Legal Canons: An Analysis of Early Hanafi Literature." Eido … Continue reading Islamic Law Speaker Series: Prof. Issam Eido, Program in Islamic Law, March 8, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
“Another Commercial Revolution? The Case of Fatimid Egypt” Lorenzo Bondioli is a social and economic historian of the premodern Middle East working on the longue durée history of capital accumulation … Continue reading Webinar: “Another Commercial Revolution? The Case of Fatimid Egypt” by Lorenzo Bondioli, Harvard University, March 9, 2022 @ 12:00 PM
Friday March 11, 11 am CST Dr. Hedi Viterbo, Associate Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London Author of Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood In Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2021) … Continue reading AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series: Dr. Hedi Viterbo, Associate Professor of Law, March 11, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
The Harvard University Association for Global Political Thought and CMES present “’I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You’: The Role of Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzi's Political … Continue reading Webinar: “’I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You’: The Role of Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzi’s Political Thought,” Han Hsien Liew, Harvard University, March 11, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Rutgers Professor Adnan Zulfiqar will discuss the topic of law and religion as it relates to post-colonialism in the global south. Register here.
