Please join us for our first Roy Reminisces—tea and cookies with Professor Roy Mottahedeh! Monday, February 24 from 1-3 pm at 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102. Prof. Mottahedeh will join … Continue reading Open House: “Roy Reminisces with Professor Roy Mottahedeh,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
MEBB WORKSHOP: DAMASCUS RESTORED: SHĀFIʿISM IN 5TH/11TH AND 6TH/12TH CENTURY DAMASCUS Feb 24 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Barker Center 114 Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Workshop: “Damascus Restored: Shafi’ism in 5th/11th and 6th/12th Century Damascus,” Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
CMES and the Committee on Medieval Studies present a book talk Narrating Muslim Sicily War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World William E. Granara Gordon Gray Professor of the … Continue reading Book Talk: “Narrating Muslim Sicily War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World,” William E. Granara, Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
BOOK TALK: “NARRATING MUSLIM SICILY: WAR AND PEACE IN THE MEDIEVAL MUSLIM WORLD” Feb 25 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St William E. … Continue reading Book Talk: “Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Muslim World”, William E. Granara, Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. LAWRENCE ROSEN, WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY EMERITUS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY … Continue reading Lecture: “Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber Example,” Lawrence Rosen, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Princeton University
ISLAMIC LAW LECTURE SERIES Distinguished faculty and fellows presenting their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. Details to follow. DARRYL LI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES … Continue reading Book Talk: “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity,” Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Dawood Ahmed, B.A. and M.A. degrees in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, and LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, is looking to hire an Editor/Research Assistant. Dr. Ahmed … Continue reading Call for Applications: Editor/Research Assistant for Prof. Dawood Ahmed on “Islam in Constitutions”
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World invites submissions for the forthcoming volume 38, to be published in 2021 Muqarnas is a scholarly journal that publishes articles … Continue reading Call for Submissions: “Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World,” Harvard University
Nurul Huda Mohd Razif, Evans Fellow, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Mar 4 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Austin 102 Intimacy … Continue reading Talk: “Intimacy Under Surveillance: Moral Policing & the State in Contemporary Malaysia,” Nurul Huda Mohd Razif, Evans Fellow, University of Cambridge.
SEMINAR: THE ARCHIVE QUESTION: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN SAUDI ARABIA? Mar 5 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor … Continue reading Seminar: “The Archive Question: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia?” Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University
