# News Sort & Filters close ## Filters Publish Date expand\_more 2017 (1) 2018 (2) 2019 (8) 2020 (14) 2021 (19) 2022 (16) 2023 (10) 2024 (10) 2025 (8) 2026 (6) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 94 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 94 results [### Eid Mubarak! ](/news/2026/05/eid-mubarak) May 28, 2026 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 ![Eid Mubarak](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Eid%20al-Adha%201447%20%282%29.jpg?h=cb83ff2f&itok=8A_WGIbl) [### 2026 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis in Islamic Studies Winner ](/news/2026/05/2026-alwaleed-bin-talal-undergraduate-thesis-islamic-studies-winner) May 15, 2026 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... ![Gibb Room, Harvard Library](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/1.%20AIS%20collection%20_May%202024_25%20%281%29.jpg?itok=S9eI2x_X) [### Alwaleed Program Director, Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb, Elected to Prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences ](/news/2026/04/alwaleed-program-director-professor-khaled-el-rouayheb-elected-prestigious-american) April 28, 2026 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... ![Khaled El-Rouayheb](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Khaled%20El-Rouayheb%202.jpeg?itok=eUBogg0i) [### Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb Publishes New Book on North African Ash'ari Theologian, al-Sanūsī ](/news/2026/04/professor-khaled-el-rouayheb-publishes-new-book-north-african-ashari-theologian-al) April 28, 2026 Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb has recently published a new book as part of the Great Medieval Thinkers series of Oxford University Press. Al-Sanūsī (2026) examines the life, works, and intellectual world of Muhammad b. Yusuf al-Sanūsī (1436–1490), a major... ![al-Sanusi book](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Khaled%20Al%20Sanusi%20book.jpg?itok=buw2KC_A) [### Professor Malika Zeghal's recent book named AAR Book Award Finalist ](/news/2026/03/professor-malika-zeghals-recent-book-named-aar-book-award-finalist) March 02, 2026 The recent book by Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024) was a... ![M](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/malika.jpg?itok=0VIrV0mF) [### In Memoriam: András Riedlmayer (1947-2026) ](/news/2026/02/memoriam-andras-riedlmayer-1947-2026) February 13, 2026 It is with profound sadness that I must report the passing, on February 9, of András Riedlmayer, who, starting in 1985, served for thirty-five years as the Bibliographer and Director at the Documentation Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic... ![Andras](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Andras.png?h=4cf70aee&itok=WaKaAOmD) [### 2025 Alwaleed Bin Talal Dissertation Prize Announcement ](/news/2025/10/2025-alwaleed-bin-talal-dissertation-prize-announcement) October 31, 2025 After reviewing many excellent submissions, the Selection Committee has decided to award two prizes this year to Dr. Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy) and Dr. Conor Dube. Dr. Conor Dube is a winner of the 2025 Alwaleed Bin Talal Dissertation Prize in Islamic... ![Gibb Room, Harvard Library](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/1.%20AIS%20collection%20_May%202024_25%20%281%29.jpg?itok=S9eI2x_X) [### Ep. 19 | Portrait of a Moroccan ʿĀlim: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī’s Life, Works, and World | Dr. Armaan Siddiqi ](/news/2025/08/ep-19-portrait-moroccan-alim-muhammad-b-jafar-al-kattanis-life-works-and-world-dr) August 20, 2025 Dr. Armaan Siddiqi is the winner of the 2024 Alwaleed Bin Talal Dissertation Prize in Islamic Studies for her dissertation, "Portrait of a Moroccan ʿālim: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī’s Life, Works, and World (1858 - 1927)." In this episode... ![Woman against wall](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/armaan_aisp.jpg?itok=553lwZ3P) [### New Article by Dr. Shahrad Shahvand, 2023-24 Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow: "In Search of Qiwām al-Dīn and Humām al-Dīn al-Kurbālī: Bridging a Gap in the Intellectual History of Fifteenth-Century Shiraz" ](/news/2025/06/new-article-dr-shahrad-shahvand-2023-24-alwaleed-postdoctoral-fellow-search-qiwam-al) June 10, 2025 Abstract: During the ninth/fifteenth century, Shiraz sustained its prominence as an intellectual epicenter in Iran. Although sub stantial research has recently been conducted on Ṣadr al-Dīn Dashtakī (d. 903/1498) and Jalāl al-Dīn Dawānī (d. 908/1502), two... ![Man in blue sweater](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/shahrad_picture.jpg?itok=LOd8Rg3K) [### Eid Mubarak! ](/news/2025/06/eid-mubarak) June 06, 2025 ![Eid Mubarak](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/eid_al-adha_1446.jpg?itok=ae5habYA) [### 2025 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize Announcement ](/news/2025/05/2025-alwaleed-bin-talal-undergraduate-thesis-prize-announcement) May 16, 2025 The Selection Committee is pleased to announce Jana Amin (NELC and Anthropology) as winner of the 2025 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies for her thesis entitled, “ Tasting Freedom: Palestinian Women's Kitchens as Sites of... ![Girl holding portfolio](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/rsz_jana_amin_square.jpg?h=7f61747e&itok=z8_O1F6o) [### Ramadan Kareem! ](/news/ramadan-kareem) February 28, 2025 ![Ramadan 1446](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/aisp/files/rsz_ramadan_1446.jpg?itok=FAqnooa2) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 8 ](?page=7 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")