On April 7, 2022, Frank Griffel, Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University, delivered a seminar on post-classical Islamic philosophy. 

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Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003), Harvard’s first Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture, would have turned 100 in April 2022. In celebration of her birthday, German scholar of Islamic studies, Stefan Weidner, delivered a speech in honor of Professor Schimmel’s legacy at the University of Erfurt on April 23, 2022, which was later summarized into an article.

Dr. Weidner hails Professor Schimmel, one of the first women in a field dominated by men, as a pioneer of Islamic studies. At Harvard, Professor Schimmel had the distinction of being not only its first female professor of...

In 2020-21, the Alwaleed Program continued its online programming and launched new projects: the Harvard Islamica Podcast and the History of Islamic Studies at Harvard Timeline. View the annual report to learn more! 

Eid Mubarak!