2024 Feb 22 Seminar: "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" by Shenila Khoja-Moolji 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 201 Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, Georgetown University RSVP here! ... Read more about Seminar: "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" by Shenila Khoja-Moolji
2024 Feb 07 Seminar: "A Merchant of Knowledge at the Court of Bayezid II" by Robert Morrison 12:30pm to 2:00pm Location: Center for Middle Eastern Studies 102 Robert Morrison, George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Bowdoin College RSVP Here! ... Read more about Seminar: "A Merchant of Knowledge at the Court of Bayezid II" by Robert Morrison
2023 Nov 30 Seminar: Ineffability and Adequation: Symmetries Between ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Theory of Language, Ontology and Mystical Epistemology by Nicholas Boylston 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center Nicholas Boylston, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center RSVP Here
2023 Nov 27 Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Lewis Hall 214, Harvard Law School Alwaleed Bin Talal Director's Series presents:Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230Monday, November 27, 2023 | 12-1:... Read more about Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230
2023 Nov 16 Seminar: Revisiting History: Nurullah Shushtari on Shīʿī Historiography, Taqiyya & the Pre-Safavid Era by Shahrad Shahvand 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Plimpton Room, Barker Center Shahrad Shahvand, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center RSVP Here
2023 Oct 12 Mūsīqā: An Evening of Music from the Islamicate World 6:30pm to 9:00pm Location: Sperry Room, Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School SOLD OUT! We will post a recording on our website after the event. Join us for Mūsīqā: An Evening of Music from the Islamicate World, featuring presentations and performances in... Read more about Mūsīqā: An Evening of Music from the Islamicate World
2023 Oct 05 Seminar: "Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim Saints" by Amina Elbendary 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Center for Middle Eastern Studies 102 Amina Elbendary, Associate Professor of Middle East History, American University in Cairo and Shawwaf Visiting Professor Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies RSVP Here
2023 Apr 24 Arabic Manuscripts Workshop Mon - Fri, Apr 24 to Apr 28, 9:30am - 3:30pmLocation: Houghton Library Nuria de Castilla, Professor of History and Codicology of the Book in the Islamicate World, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) François Déroche, Professor of the History of the... Read more about Arabic Manuscripts Workshop
2023 Apr 11 Book Talk: In the Shadow of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh 4:00pm to 5:30pm Location: CMES 102 Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Research Professor of History, will discuss his new book, In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History, in conversation with Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb and Professor Cemal Kafadar. ... Read more about Book Talk: In the Shadow of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh
2023 Apr 05 Seminar: The ‘Ulamā’s Tradition: Reconceptualizing and Editing Turāth in Modern Egypt by Mary Elston 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: CMES 102 Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | CMES 102 | RSVP Here Mary Elston, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern... Read more about Seminar: The ‘Ulamā’s Tradition: Reconceptualizing and Editing Turāth in Modern Egypt by Mary Elston
2024 May 02 "Sultan Suleiman as King Solomon and Zahir al-Umar as Ahasuerus: The Ottoman Arab Culture of Palestinian Jews, 1517-1799" by Orit Bashkin 5:00pm to 6:30pm