Name: Harvard Lecture: Islamic Legalities Across the Longue Durée
Start: 2019-04-22T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies

April 2019

Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium

April 12, 2019

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Friday, 3 May 2019 The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature invite contributions from Harvard College students of papers (fifteen to twenty minutes) in length in any discipline, dealing with any medieval or early modern topic. We particularly welcome papers that push against traditional boundaries in medieval … Continue reading Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium

Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

April 12, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Mahindra Humanities Center, Persian and Persianate Studies: "From Shah Jahan to Nadir Shah: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi" Abhishek Kaicker is a historian of South Asia in the department of History UC Berkeley and currently a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. His primary scholarly interests lie in questions of … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Research Grants

April 15, 2019

The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering research grants up to $2,500 to PhD students, post-docs, and junior faculty (who are current members of ASMEA) for research related to any these topics: Minorities and Women Feminism, women’s rights, family law Christians in the Middle East and Africa Alevis, … Continue reading Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Research Grants

Arabic Codicology Summer Course in El Escorial

April 15, 2019

The sixth edition of the course "Arabic Codicology: The Islamic Manuscript Heritage in the El Escorial Collection" (June 17-21, 2019) will provide the students with the basic codicological knowledge and the research procedures needed to study and analyze Arabic manuscripts. Moreover, it will familiarize them with the libraries of the Arabic-Islamic world in medieval and … Continue reading Arabic Codicology Summer Course in El Escorial

Harvard Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies

April 16, 2019

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program is pleased to announce the Alwaleed Bin Talal Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Islamic Studies. The prize recognizes students who make original contributions to current scholarly discourse on Islam and Muslim societies, past and present. The prize is open to Harvard College students in all academic … Continue reading Harvard Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies

Harvard Symposium: Religion & Public Life in Africa and the Americas

April 17, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - April 18, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Call for Applications: Library of Congress: Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division

April 18, 2019

This is a rare and potentially career-changing opportunity to become a senior-level executive, program ambassador, and collections expert at the Library of Congress. The Chief of the African and Middle … Continue reading Call for Applications: Library of Congress: Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division

Persian Language Summer School in Armenia

April 20, 2019

ASPIRANTUM: Armenian School of Languages and Cultures in Yerevan organizes an International Persian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia, to take place from July 7-August 17 (6 weeks) or July … Continue reading Persian Language Summer School in Armenia

Call for Applications: Forum Transregionale Studien: Postdoctoral Fellow, Europe and Middle East

April 22, 2019

Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin, Germany

The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to five postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2019/20 for the research program. Europe in the Middle East—The Middle … Continue reading Call for Applications: Forum Transregionale Studien: Postdoctoral Fellow, Europe and Middle East

Harvard Lecture: Islamic Legalities Across the Longue Durée

April 22, 2019 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

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

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents: "Islamic legalities across the longue durée: A preliminary historical epistemology of Islamic law" By Anver Emon, Professor of Law and History; Canada … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Islamic Legalities Across the Longue Durée