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
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)
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].
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
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
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
Held at the University of Exeter (UK) from June 27th to 29th, 2019, the theme for the 16th annual conference is "The Globality of Central Asia." We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and sessions in non-traditional formats covering all aspects of Central Asian Studies across the humanities and social sciences. We particularly encourage proposals … Continue reading Call for Papers: European Society for Central Asian Studies Conference
The University of Wisconsin Madison is seeking to hire a faculty member to conduct research and teach courses in gender/women’s studies as it relates to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, with a preference for the Arab Middle East. Preference will be given to applicants with area expertise who conduct research using Middle East … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Wisconsin–Madison: Assistant Professor, Gender in the Middle East
The Research Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Tehran is inviting abstracts for an international conference on “Criminal Law Developments in the Muslim-Majority Countries in the Light of Interaction between Shari’a and Law,” to be held on March 5th & 6th, 2019. The judicial and legal structures of Muslim-majority countries have changed drastically in … Continue reading Call for Papers: Criminal Law Developments in Muslim-Majority Countries
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University announces the 2019-20 Call for Applications for our Fellows-in-Residence Program. Application deadline: November 15, 2018 The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites applications from a broad range of researchers and practitioners who will work over the course of the year on … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Center for Ethics Fellowships
