Past Events

Seminar: "What’s Truth Got to Do With It? Logic as (Mere) Instrument in Philosophy of the Islamic World" by Peter Adamson

September 25, 2026

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT

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HMANE 201 (6 Divinity Ave)

In Person

RSVP Here Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, LMU in Munich Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Abstract A commonplace of ancient Aristotelianism that passed into the Arabic tradition was that...

Jewish-Muslim Interrelations Series: "Power and Vulnerability in Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History" by Jessica Marglin

April 28, 2026

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT

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Sever 213

In Person

The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and Center for Jewish Studies present the Jewish-Muslim Interrelations Series Power and Vulnerability in Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | 4-5:30pm | Sever 213 | RSVP...

Seminar: A Berber Sufi Scholar who Spoke Truth to Power in Arabic: The Remarkable Life of al-Hasan al-Yusi by Justin Stearns

April 22, 2026

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT

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CMES 102

In Person

A Berber Sufi Scholar who Spoke Truth to Power in Arabic: The Remarkable Life of al-Hasan al-Yusi (Bill Granara introducing) Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 4-5:30pm | CMES 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 | RSVP Here Justin Stearns, Professor of...

Seminar: Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo

April 16, 2026

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT

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Barker 133 (Plimpton Room)

In Person

RSVP Here Amanda Lanzillo, Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Co-sponsors: Department of South Asian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Mahindra Humanities Center Persian...

Manuscripts to Megabytes: Evolving Editorial Practices and Challenges in Arabic Manuscripts from the Premodern to the Digital Age by Sabine Schmidtke

April 2, 2026

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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT

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CGIS Knafel 262

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Book Talk: "An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law" by Mariam Sheibani

April 1, 2026

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT

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CMES 102

In Person

RSVP Here Mariam Sheibani, Assistant Professor of Islamic thought, Brandeis University Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Book Talk: "Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk" by Rosabel Ansari

March 25, 2026

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4:30PM - 5:30PM EDT

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CMES 102

In Person

RSVP Here Rosabel Ansari, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Seminar: Editing Early Sufism: From Manuscript Discovery to Digital Corpus by Riccardo Paredi

March 12, 2026

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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT

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Emerson 305

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Seminar: "Marrying Jinn: Haunted Memories and Supernatural Genealogies in the 19th Century" by Beeta Baghoolizadeh

November 10, 2025

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EST

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Barker 133 (Plimpton Room)

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Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Associate Research Scholar, Middle East Institute at Columbia University Co-sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Workshop: Library Resources for Islamic Studies

October 31, 2025

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9:00AM - 12:00PM EDT

In Person

The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents: Library Resources for Islamic Studies Workshop Friday, October 31, 2025 | 9am-12pm | Lamont B30 Speakers Sarah DeMott , Lamont Library Michael Hopper , Widener Library Ramona Crawford , Widener...

"Justice without Pain: The Abolition of Torture in Modern Egyptian Penal Law" by Khaled Fahmy

October 27, 2025

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12:15PM - 1:30PM EDT

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The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World presents: "Justice without Pain: The Abolition of Torture in Modern Egyptian Penal Law" by Khaled Fahmy, Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East, Tufts University Moderated by Salma...

Aga Khan Program Lecture: "South South Cosmogonies" by Meriem Chabani

October 23, 2025

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6:30PM - 8:30PM EDT

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Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design

In Person

Please note that this event has been rescheduled from October 22nd to October 23rd . “The South does not exist.” —Paul B. Preciado, The Invention of the South , 2017 How do we design from a place defined by its erasure? A place whose epistemologies have...