Past Events

2021 Apr 07

Seminar: "Rumi’s Ancestors on the Path of Radical Love (Mazhab-e ‘Eshq): Ahmad al-Ghazali and Kharaqani" by Omid Safi

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
via Zoom
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Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

Co-sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, and Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies
2021 Mar 11

Seminar: "Beyond Centers and Peripheries: Islam and Asia" by Chiara Formichi

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
via Zoom
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Chiara Formichi, Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University

Co-sponsor: Harvard University Asia Center
2020 Dec 01

Seminar: "Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib" by Amira Bennison

3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
via Zoom
Amira Bennison, Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib, University of Cambridge

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2020 Nov 19

Workshop: Harvard's Islamic Collection in and beyond Cambridge

10:30am to 1:00pm
Location:
via Zoom

Harvard's Islamic Collection in and beyond Cambridge
Thursday, November 19, 2020 | 10:30am - 1pm | ...
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2020 Nov 03

Seminar: "Mobility, Power, and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire" by Ahmed al-Rahim

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
via Zoom
Ahmed al-Rahim, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia

Co-sponsor: Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

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2020 Oct 29

Library Resources for (Remote) Research in Islamic Studies: Visual and Islamic Legal Resources

1:00pm to 2:45pm
Location:
via Zoom
Library Resources for (Remote) Research in Islamic Studies: Visual and Islamic Legal Resources
Thursday, October 29, 2020 | 1-2:45pm | RSVP for Zoom link

Co-sponsors: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

Presenters:
Amanda Hanoosh Steinberg
Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art &...
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2020 Oct 22

Seminar: "The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring’: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles" by Christiane Gruber

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
via Zoom
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Christiane Gruber, Professor and Chair in the History of Art, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

Abstract: Along with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the late Ottoman period. While manuscript paintings and compositions...
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2020 Oct 20

Seminar: "After the Canon: A History of Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission" by Garrett Davidson

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
via Zoom
Garrett Davidson, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Muslim World Studies, College of Charleston

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2020 Sep 18

Library Resources for (Remote) Research in Islamic Studies

2:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Zoom

***Due to the focus on resources that require a Harvard ID, this workshop is open to Harvard-affiliates only. We hope non-Harvard affiliates will join us for events open to the public in the...
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2020 May 06

Director's Series Lecture (via Zoom): "The 'Spanish' Influenza in Egypt" by Christopher Rose

3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
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Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin

Abstract: The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every...
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Past Events

Seminar: "Rumi’s Ancestors on the Path of Radical Love (Mazhab-e ‘Eshq): Ahmad al-Ghazali and Kharaqani" by Omid Safi

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Seminar: "Beyond Centers and Peripheries: Islam and Asia" by Chiara Formichi

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Seminar: "Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib" by Amira Bennison

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Workshop: Harvard's Islamic Collection in and beyond Cambridge

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Seminar: "Mobility, Power, and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire" by Ahmed al-Rahim

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Library Resources for (Remote) Research in Islamic Studies: Visual and Islamic Legal Resources

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Seminar: "The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring’: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles" by Christiane Gruber

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Seminar: "After the Canon: A History of Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission" by Garrett Davidson

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Library Resources for (Remote) Research in Islamic Studies

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Director's Series Lecture (via Zoom): "The 'Spanish' Influenza in Egypt" by Christopher Rose

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Seminar: "Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation" by Carl Sharif El-Tobgui

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