In 1864 as the Civil War raged in the United States, a Circassian manumitted slave and Tunisian official named Husayn advocated for the abolition of slavery in the US. In response to a query from the American consul in Tunis wondering about the effect of slavery in Tunisia, Husayn replied that he truly believed that … Continue reading Lecture: A North African Slave Advocating for Abolition in the US: Debating Slavery in Ottoman Tunis 1864, Middle East Studies Center (Duke University), November 9, 2020 @1:00 pm – 2:45 pm

Book Talk: Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence Tuesday, November 10, 12 – 1 pm EST Zoom webinar: registration link forthcoming Please join us for a webinar with Professor Samy Ayoub to discuss his recent book “Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence.” In this book, Ayoub … Continue reading Book Talk: Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School, November 10, @12-1:00pm

Please join us for a webinar with Professor Samy Ayoub to discuss his recent book “Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence.” In this book, Ayoub examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Hanafi legal works from the Ottoman world of the 16th to 19th centuries CE, casting new light on … Continue reading Webinar: Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (Harvard Law School), November 10, 2020 @12:00 – 1:00 pm

The Harvard Center for African Studies Africa Office will host this year's Folorunso Alakija Distinguished Lecture on Religion and Public Life in Africa featuring Professor Simeon Ilesanmi, Washington M. Wingate Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University with responses from Professor Jacob Olupona, Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School and Professor Elizabeth Foster, Associate Professor of History, Tufts University. Mrs. Folorunso … Continue reading Online Lecture: Legal Regulation of Faith: The Limits of Religious Freedom and the Challenge of COVID-19 in Africa, Harvard Center for African Studies, November 12, 2020 @10:00 am – 12:00 pm

This online lecture series is intended as a preparation for the workshop entitled Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies.  State of the art, challenges, perspectives and prospective research. The workshop has been postponed to 11-13 February 2021. Updates will be published on this website or our newsletter. Please click here to subscribe to the newsletter. This is a closed … Continue reading Online Lecture: Jörg Wettlaufer (Göttingen): Travels in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire. A Digital History Research Project, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, November 12, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM

“Should a Muslim Woman Be President? Race, Gender, and the Insurgent Legacies of American Islam” Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:15 – 5:45 pm EST Sylvia Chan-Malik, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, author of Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam (2018) The lecture will be … Continue reading Online Lecture: “Should a Muslim Woman Be President? Race, Gender, and the Insurgent Legacies of American Islam” Yale Law School, November 12, 2020, 4:15-5:45 PM