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 … Continue reading MESA 2019 Book Awards
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Call for Papers: Princeton Undergraduate Near Eastern Studies Conference
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
Harvard Lecture: Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia
“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
Call for Papers: African Legal History Symposium
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
Registration Deadline for British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
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
Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
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
Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
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
Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
"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
Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium
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 … Continue reading Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium
Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi
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 … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi