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 … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries
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 … Continue reading Call for Applications: International Criminal Law Summer Course in Italy
The Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to request submissions for its biennial prize for best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500-1500 CE). In … Continue reading Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
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 … Continue reading MESA 2019 Book Awards
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 … Continue reading Call for Papers: Princeton Undergraduate Near Eastern Studies Conference
“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 … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia
Fortuitously, the 2019 annual meetings of the African Studies Association and the American Society for Legal History will both take place November 21-23 in Boston. In hopes of sparking a … Continue reading Call for Papers: African Legal History Symposium
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 … Continue reading Registration Deadline for British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
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 … Continue reading Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
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 … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
