Kristin E. Fabbe
Courses
MUSIC 190R: Topics in World Music: Music in Islamic Contexts: South and Central Asia
This course focuses on arts of sound associated with Islam in South Asia and Central Asia (including Iran). We explore how specific musical procedures and uses of sound cut across these Asian regions, and how ideologies, philosophies, and texts—associated...
DPI 397: Islam in the American Public Sphere: A Case Study for Strategic Diversity Leadership
Instructor: Khalil Abdur-Rashid This course will examine Islam and the American Muslim community as a case study which reveals the challenges and perspectives emerging from the encounter of a global faith community in America with the intersection of race...
HIST 2014: Historiography of the Modern Middle East: Proseminar
Instructor: Rosie Bsheer This graduate seminar aims to familiarize students with some of the major debates in the field of modern Middle East history and pays careful attention to competing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. It will...
DPI 440: Middle Eastern Politics and Policy
Instructor: Tarek Masoud Explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine...
ISLAMCIV 170/HDS 3368: Islam, Modernity and Politics
Instructor: Ousmane Kane The aim of this seminar is to study the evolution of Islamic thought and political practices in Muslim societies from the 19th to the early 21st centuries.Attention will be devoted to the patterns of interaction between the Muslim...
RELIGION 2810/ISLAMCIV 218: Islamic Institutions - Middle East and Beyond: Modern Transformations and Debates (19th-21st centuries)
Instructor: Malika Zeghal This graduate seminar explores the transformation of Islamic institutions in the modern period, such as religious endowments (Awqaf), sharia courts, and Islamic education. We will engage with the historiography of these...
HDS 3357/Islamic Civilization 179: Critical Perspectives on the Dynamics and Development of Islam in Africa
Instructor: Ousmane Kane An estimated 450 to 500 million Muslims live in Africa—close to a third of the global Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of them lives in the northern half of the continent, above the equator. The spread of Islam...
Middle Eastern Politics and Policy
DPI-440 This course explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine democratization...
Getting and Keeping Democracy
DPI-407 This is a course about how democracy comes into being and how it breaks down, and about what citizens, activists, and policymakers around the world can do to make the former more likely and the latter less so. Around the world, there is an...
Political Institutions and Public Policy
DPI-101 This is a course about fundamental problems of participation, democratic governance, and conflict in contemporary political systems. It will provide students with an analytical toolkit for understanding and acting on the political dimensions of...
Architecture in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, science and technology...
Spiritual Cultivation in Islam Part I: The Classical Era
This course, as part of the new HDS Initiative on Islamic Spiritual Life and Service, is intended for students preparing for vocation in a variety of settings in which they will provide Islamically-inspired service and support. The course will acquaint...
Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam
Instructor: Ali Asani A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia.
Video
10/21/2014: Malika Zeghal
3/1/18 Islam and Toleration Keynote by Harvard Philosophy Professor Thomas M. Scanlon
3/1/18 Islam and Toleration Keynote by Harvard Philosophy Professor Thomas M. Scanlon
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3/2/18 Islam and Toleration Panel 1
3/2/18 Islam and Toleration Panel 1
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3/2/18 Islam and Toleration Panel 2
3/2/18 Islam and Toleration Panel 3
3/28/19 "City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries"
Publications
2011
Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2011. Religion, Transnationalism, and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America. Oxford University Press
Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2011. Religion, Transnationalism, and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America. Oxford University Press
As Senegal prepares to celebrate fifty years of independence from French colonial rule, academic and policy circles are engaged in a vigorous debate about its experience in nation building. An important aspect of this debate is the impact of globalization...
2008
2008. Order, Conflict, and Violence. Cambridge University Press
2008. Order, Conflict, and Violence. Cambridge University Press
William A. Graham. 2008. “Reading the ’Book of Nature’”. Harvard Divinity Bulletin Summer/Autumn 2011
William A. Graham. 2008. “Reading the ’Book of Nature’”. Harvard Divinity Bulletin Summer/Autumn 2011
2014
Tarek Masoud. 2014. Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. Cambridge University Press
Tarek Masoud. 2014. Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. Cambridge University Press
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism...
2015
Tarek Masoud. 2015. “Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87
Tarek Masoud. 2015. “Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, democracy in the Arab world seems farther away today than at any point in the last 25 years, leaving one to conclude that the answer to the question posed in this special anniversary issue of the Journal—“Is Democracy...
2016
Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West
Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West
News
Eid Mubarak!
We at the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program wish you and your loved ones a joyous Eid al-Adha! Khaled El-Rouayheb, Harry Bastermajian, and Meryum Kazmi
2026 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis in Islamic Studies Winner
After reviewing many excellent submissions, the Selection Committee has chosen Eva Frazier (Social Studies and EMR) as the winner of the 2026 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies for her thesis, “ Pacification and its...
Alwaleed Program Director, Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb, Elected to Prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb was one of eight scholars from Harvard elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor El-Rouayheb is James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History in the Department of Near Eastern...
Events
CONFERENCE: Thinking Islam within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures
September 28, 2018
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9:00AM - 5:00PM EDT
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Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue
In Person
On September 28, 2018, the Alwaleed Program hosted a day-long conference in honor of Professor William A. Graham's career and scholarship. Professor Graham retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard that included serving as the...
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN XINJIANG
October 9, 2018
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street
In Person
On October 9, 2018, the Alwaleed Program co-spnsored a timely event on China's current detention of members of its Uighur Muslim minority in "re-education camps" in the northwest province of Xinjiang with the alleged aim of de-radicalization. Adrian Zenz...
Seminar: Arabic Studies Beyond Arabic: Integrating the Western Humanities Canon
December 6, 2018
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1:00PM - 3:00PM EST
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Boylston Hall, Room 105
In Person
On December 6, 2018, the Alwaleed Program held the inaugural event in the Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies. In room packed with students, faculty and visiting fellows, world-renowned philologist and scholar of Islamic intellectual history...
Program in Islamic Law: WELCOME BACK TEA
February 5, 2019
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3:00PM - 4:00PM EST
In Person
The new Program for Islamic law welcomes its students, faculty, and staff back for the new semester. For Harvard Affiliates Only. For details, email PIL@law.harvard.edu .
Program in Islamic Law: BOOK TALK ON AFGHANISTAN RISING: ISLAMIC LAW AND STATECRAFT BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH EMPIRES
February 6, 2019
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Austin 102
In Person
LUNCH TALK :: BOOK TALK ON AFGHANISTAN RISING: ISLAMIC LAW AND STATECRAFT BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH EMPIRES (HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017) Feb 6 | 12.00-1.00p | Austin 102 Author: FAIZ AHMED, Associate Professor of History, Brown University...
Middle East Beyond Borders Session I
February 11, 2019
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EST
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Kresge Room (114) of the Barker Center
In Person
Speaker: Youssef Ben Ismail (PhD Student, NELC) Dissertation chapter: "Tunus Meselesi: The "Tunisian question" in imperial context (1881-1923)" The MEBB workshop meets 6:00pm - 7:30pm at the Kresge Room (114) of the Barker Center (Dinner is served). We...