Name: Lecture at Harvard: Scientific Expertise, Piety and Islamic Legal Opinions
Start: 2018-11-12T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2018-11-12T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies

November 2018

Call for Applications: Boise State University: Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern History

November 1, 2018

The Department of History at Boise State University invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning August 2019. We seek to appoint a faculty member with expertise in Middle Eastern History. All research specializations, geographic areas, and secondary fields will be considered. A strong commitment to teaching and evidence of scholarly potential are expected. The successful … Continue reading Call for Applications: Boise State University: Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern History

Call for Papers: Law and Society Association (LSA) Conference

November 7, 2018

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Annual Meeting on Law and Society! May 30-June 2, 2019 in Washington, DC This year’s theme is: Dignity Dignity embraces justice, rights, rule of law, respect for humanity and diversity as well as a commitment to human engagement, subjects that have been central in the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Law and Society Association (LSA) Conference

ASLH Pre-conference Workshop on Teaching Legal History

November 8, 2018

Hilton Americas Houston, TX

All those attending the 2018 American Society for Legal History conference in Houston are welcome to pre-register for the pre-conference workshop on teaching legal history held in the conference hotel on Thurs, Nov 8 from 11-4 pm. 30 participants will have an opportunity to share their own challenges and successes in dialogue with workshop facilitators … Continue reading ASLH Pre-conference Workshop on Teaching Legal History

American Society for Legal Society Annual Meeting: “Judges and Courts in Islamic History”

November 8, 2018 - November 11, 2018

This session's date is TBD. Panelists will include Raha Rafii, PhD Candidate in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at UPenn, Amir Toft, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago and research fellow at Yale Law School, and Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law and History at Harvard Law School and Harvard University.

Harvard Lecture: Writing a New History of Islamic Spain

November 8, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

The Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Committee on Medieval Studies present the Inaugural Joint Lecture in Medieval Eastern Studies: "Kingdoms of Faith – Writing a New History of Islamic Spain" featuring Brian Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder

Conference: Islamic Civilization (Yale Law School)

November 9, 2018

Yale Law School New Haven, CT

Fifty years after Marshall Hodgson and the Idea of a Discernible Islamic Civilization Symposium sponsored by the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization Yale Law School, Room 129 9:30 am – 12:00 pm The interaction of Islam with other traditions, cultures, religions and civilizations Ahmed El-Shamsy, University of Chicago … Continue reading Conference: Islamic Civilization (Yale Law School)

Workshop: Ibn Taymiyya and the Shi’a (Exeter, UK)

November 9, 2018

University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom

A workshop organized by the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. To register, please email [email protected].

Conference: Law, Islam and Anthropology

November 9, 2018 - November 10, 2018

The conference brings together the disciplines of law, anthropology and Islamic studies, with all of their multiple entanglements. Conference papers address field observation, as well as methods and theories that provide insights into norms that are often given Islamic justification. The discussion will range from the traditional domain of family-related regulations regarding commercial transactions to … Continue reading Conference: Law, Islam and Anthropology

Call for Papers: Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought

November 10, 2018

On March 17th and 18th, 2019, Georgetown University in Qatar is proud to host an international, multidisciplinary conference with the aim of bringing together scholars involved in research on Islamic intellectual thought between the 16th and 18th centuries. The Organizing Committee for the 2019 Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought Conference is now accepting … Continue reading Call for Papers: Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought

Lecture at Harvard: Scientific Expertise, Piety and Islamic Legal Opinions

November 12, 2018 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies 38 Kirkland St, Room 102, Cambridge, MA

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents And God knows best Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions Ahmed Ragab Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, affiliate associate professor at the department … Continue reading Lecture at Harvard: Scientific Expertise, Piety and Islamic Legal Opinions