Week of Events
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 streamlined form of Muslim marriages found in Muslim majority contexts. However, this depiction does not represent the diverse and plural lived experiences of how Muslim … Continue reading Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
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 minutes) in length in any discipline, dealing with any medieval or early modern topic. We particularly welcome papers that push against traditional boundaries in medieval … Continue reading Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium
Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
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 within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
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
Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi
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 department of History UC Berkeley and currently a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. His primary scholarly interests lie in questions of … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi