#  CONFERENCE: Thinking Islam within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 28, 2018** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue**  



 

 



 

 On September 28, 2018, the Alwaleed Program hosted a day-long conference in honor of Professor [William A. Graham](https://hds.harvard.edu/people/william-graham)'s career and scholarship. Professor Graham retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard that included serving as the Faculty Director of the Alwaleed Program, Dean of Harvard Divinity School, Faculty Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Core Curriculum Committee on Foreign Cultures at Harvard.

 The conference was assembled by Professor Ahmed Ragab of Harvard Divinity School and brought together world-renowned scholars of Qur'anic Studies, Comparative Religion and History of Religion that presented their work and offered remarks on Professor Graham's scholarship and legacy.

 This event was co-sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

   
**Panel 1: The Qur’an and Scriptural Studies**  
**Chair**: Kimberley Patton, Harvard Divinity School  
Mohsen Goudarzi, University of Minnesota  
Jane McAuliffe, Library of Congress  
Shady Nasser, Harvard University   
Walid Saleh, University of Toronto



 

 **Panel 2: The Future of the Study of Abrahamic Traditions**  
**Chair**: Charles Stang, Harvard Divinity School   
Elizabeth Lee-Hood, Harvard Divinity School  
Ahmed Ragab, Harvard Divinity School  
Guy Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem



 

 **Panel 3: Integrating Islamic studies Within Religious Studies**  
**Chair**: Ahmed Ragab, Harvard Divinity school  
Ali Asani, Harvard University   
Diana Eck, Harvard Divinity School  
Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard University



 



 

 



 

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