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 &...
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...
***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...
Nicholas Boylston, College Fellow, Harvard University, will present his candidate lecture on Thursday, February 20, at 5:15 pm, in Room 117 of 60 Oxford Street. The title of his talk is "Quranic Exegesis Between Twelver Shi’ism and Sufism: Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Tafsīr al-Muḥīṭ al-a’ẓam (Commentary of the Greatest Ocean)." Boylston will also be available for lunch with students earlier that same day, from noon to 1:30 pm, in the Common Room of the Center for the Study of World Religions. Lunch will be provided, and ...