Co-Sponsored by the Program in Islamic Law and the Sports Law Program at Harvard Law School, basketball legend and civil rights advocate Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf will serve as a keynote speaker to the 2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium, where he will share his thoughts and experiences in advocating for social justice in the United States. Mr. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is a former American professional basketball player. He sparked controversy for refusing to stand for the national anthem, and calling the flag of the...
On March 28, 2019, Harvard's own Professor Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Research Professor of History, presented his new philological research on terms for city and countryside in medieval Arabic-Persian dictionaries for the Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies. This lecture was co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Sponsor: Harvard Divinity School, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Center for African Studies, Hutchins Center, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of African and African American Studies
On March 26, 2019, the Alwaleed Program co-sponsored a celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year that takes place on the day of the spring equinox and is celebrated throughout the Persianate world, most of which consists of Muslim-majority countries.
The event featured a vibrant haft sin table that displayed seven items beginning with the letter sin that symbolize concepts such as abundance, prosperity and new life to usher in the new year. Over 200 guests also enjoyed fresh fruit and Iranian sweets alongside live performances...
Speaker: Mary Elston (PhD Student, NELC) Dissertation chapter: “Experiencing the Manhaj: Language, Time, and Knowledge in the Azhar Study Circles.”
The MEBB workshop meets 6:00pm - 7:30pm at the Kresge Room (114) of the Barker Center (Dinner is served). We circulate papers one week before their workshop session.
Sponsor: Harvard Divinity School, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Center for African Studies, Hutchins Center, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of African and African American Studies
Speaker: Kirsten Wesselhoeft (Religion Dept., Vassar College) Book Chapter: “A Muslim Elite?” in forthcoming book, Muslims of the Present: Islamic Ethics, Social Critique, and the Inheritance of Immigration in France
The MEBB workshop meets 6:00pm - 7:30pm at the Kresge Room (114) of the Barker Center (Dinner is served). We circulate papers one week before their workshop session.
On March 8, 2019, the Alwaleed Program held a hands-on workshop organized by Workshop Coordinator Johannes Makar (Ph.D. student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) and run by digital humanities experts, Cole Crawford and Rashmi Singhal of Digital Arts and Humanities (DARTH) and Jeremy Guillette of the History Department, specifically for Islamic Studies researchers. Students, faculty and visiting fellows with varying levels of experience with digital scholarship learned about the benefits of using spreadsheets in their work and practiced cleaning up and manipulating data in...