Call for Applications: International Criminal Law Summer Course in Italy

Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights Siracusa, Italy

The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights is organizing its 19th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on “Human Rights and Criminal Justice” in Siracusa (Italy) from June 2 until June 10, 2019. We will select 60 participants who should have a university degree, ideally in law or with … Continue reading Call for Applications: International Criminal Law Summer Course in Italy

MESA 2019 Book Awards

Nominations for the Albert Hourani Book Award, the Nikki Keddie Book Award, and the Fatima Mernissi Book Award are made simultaneously. Nominations can be made by either the publisher or the author. Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019. The Albert … Continue reading MESA 2019 Book Awards

Call for Papers: Princeton Undergraduate Near Eastern Studies Conference

Princeton University Princeton, NJ

The Department of Near Eastern Studies of Princeton University is pleased to announce the second annual Princeton Undergraduate Near Eastern Studies Conference, to be held on May 3-4, 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey. We are now accepting original papers from undergraduate students who have conducted research in any aspect of Near Eastern Studies. We welcome … Continue reading Call for Papers: Princeton Undergraduate Near Eastern Studies Conference

Harvard Lecture: Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

“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

Registration Deadline for British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference

University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom

BRAIS 2019The Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies Monday 15th - Tuesday 16th April 2019  Teaching and Learning Building, University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD   REGISTRATION FOR BRAIS 2019 IS NOW OPEN. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.   PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME   All panels and plenaries will take place in the Teaching and … Continue reading Registration Deadline for British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference

Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices

University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands

In Muslim minority contexts, particularly in the UK and Europe, some of the prevalent discourses on religious-only Muslim marriages share an underlying assumption of a homogenous, legally recognised and culturally streamlined form of Muslim marriages found in Muslim majority contexts. However, this depiction does not represent the diverse and plural lived experiences of how Muslim … Continue reading Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices

Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

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

Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

"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

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