Feb 24 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 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
Feb 25 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 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
Feb 25 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 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
Feb 26 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lecture: “Tribal Law as Islamic Law: The Berber Example,” Lawrence Rosen, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Princeton University
Feb 26 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm 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
Mar 1 All day Call for Applications: Editor/Research Assistant for Prof. Dawood Ahmed on “Islam in Constitutions”
Mar 1 All day Call for Submissions: “Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World,” Harvard University
Mar 4 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Talk: “Intimacy Under Surveillance: Moral Policing & the State in Contemporary Malaysia,” Nurul Huda Mohd Razif, Evans Fellow, University of Cambridge.
Mar 5 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Seminar: “The Archive Question: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia?” Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University
Mar 5 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Talk: “The Archive Question: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia?,” Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University