The Departments of History and African and African American Studies seek to appoint a tenure-track professor in the History of Modern Africa (focus on sub-Saharan Africa, field open). The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2023. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Basic Qualifications: Doctorate … Continue reading Position opening: Tenure-Track Harvard Professor in the History of Modern Africa, Harvard University
On Monday, September 19, 2022 4:30-5:30PM US EST in Milstein West at Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School, Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan), in conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School), will reflect on their experience serving in the judiciary. This event is co-organized by Harvard Law School’s International Legal Studies, … Continue reading Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary: Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) & Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan) in Conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb
The central sources of religious doctrine and law in Islam are the Qurʾān and the hadith. Hadith is, by volume, the far greater of these two sources. While there has been an increasing production of sophisticated studies on Sunni hadith traditions, the study of Shiʿi hadith requires far greater attention than it has hitherto received. … Continue reading Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary: Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) & Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan) in Conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb
The central sources of religious doctrine and law in Islam are the Qurʾān and the hadith. Hadith is, by volume, the far greater of these two sources. While there has been an increasing production of sophisticated studies on Sunni hadith traditions, the study of Shiʿi hadith requires far greater attention than it has hitherto received. … Continue reading Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary: Justice Stephen G. Breyer (SCOTUS) & Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan) in Conversation with Professor Intisar Rabb
On Tuesday September 27, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST at Lewis 214, Sarah Bowen Savant, will lead a seminar on research in progress that uses the OpenITI corpus, which corpus contains more than 10,000 works and now exceeds 2 billion words in size, to examine the question: prior to the arrival of the printing press or … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab Workshop :: Ibn ʿAsākir and His History of Damascus: Named Entity Recognition and Text Reuse, Sarah Savant
On Tuesday September 27, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST at Lewis 214, Sarah Bowen Savant, will lead a seminar on research in progress that uses the OpenITI corpus, which corpus contains more than 10,000 works and now exceeds 2 billion words in size, to examine the question: prior to the arrival of the printing press or … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab Workshop :: Ibn ʿAsākir and His History of Damascus: Named Entity Recognition and Text Reuse, Sarah Savant
On Tuesday September 27, 2022 at 12:00-1:00PM US EST at Lewis 214, Sarah Bowen Savant, will lead a seminar on research in progress that uses the OpenITI corpus, which corpus contains more than 10,000 works and now exceeds 2 billion words in size, to examine the question: prior to the arrival of the printing press or … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab Workshop :: Ibn ʿAsākir and His History of Damascus: Named Entity Recognition and Text Reuse, Sarah Savant
The Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies. We seek candidates specializing in pre-modern Islam (7th–15th centuries), with a preference for the early period. Regional focus and disciplinary approach are open. A PhD is required at the time of appointment. It is expected … Continue reading Position opening: Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Stanford University
The Middle East, Africa, and Asia Division in Widener Library is looking for Harvard students to work during the fall semester with knowledge of these languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Syriac, Armenian, and Georgian. For more information please e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
MESA Global Academy presents an online panel on “Ukraine from Ottoman Times to Today” Friday, September 30, 2022 12pm Eastern Time On Zoom (registration link below) The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association will host Dr. Nihat Çelik, San Diego State University: “The Russian Annexation of Crimea in 1783” Dr. Dilyara Agisheva, Harvard University: “The Making … Continue reading Online panel: “Ukraine from Ottoman Times to Today,” MESA Global Academy, September 30, 2022
