The Alwaleed Program team speaks with András Riedlmayer, former Aga Khan Bibliographer of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard's Fine Arts Library, about his career as a librarian, the development of the field of the history of Islamic art and architecture, and how his passion for cultural heritage preservation took him from working in Harvard's libraries to conducting field research in the war-torn streets of Kosovo and Bosnia and testifying as an expert witness for the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague and the International Court... Read more about Ep. 11 | Preserving Islamicate Cultural Heritage from Harvard’s Libraries to the Balkans | András Riedlmayer
We are excited to announce that Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is the new faculty director...
The Alwaleed Program team speaks with Dr. Rushain Abbasi, winner of the 2021 Alwaleed bin Talal Prize for Best Dissertation in Islamic Studies for his dissertation entitled, "Beyond the Realm of Religion: The Idea of the Secular in Premodern Islam." In this study, Rushain challenges the prevailing view that maintains that premodern Muslims did not distinguish between the religious and the secular and that this distinction only emerged with the invention of these categories in the modern, post-Enlightenment West. His longue durée study demonstrates... Read more about Ep. 9 | Beyond the Realm of Religion: The Idea of the Secular in Premodern Islam | Dr. Rushain Abbasi
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about how the health crisis, government-imposed lockdowns, and economic recession would affect religious faith and behavior. While many social scientists expected it to strengthen religiosity as people turned to their faith for comfort in a time of need, others suspected a religious recession could result from the limitations on communal religious activity. In this episode, we speak with three political scientists, Tarek Masoud, A. Kadir Yildirim, and Peter Mandaville, about their ... Read more about Ep. 8 | How Has the Pandemic Affected Religious Behavior in the Muslim World? | Tarek Masoud, Kadir Yildirim, and Peter Mandaville
On April 29, 2021, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Brandeis University, gave a talk at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies about his new book, Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Brill, 2020).
On April 7, 2021, Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, spoke about the tradition of Mazhab-e 'Eshq, Path of Radical Love, of the mystics Ahmad al-Ghazali and Kharaqani as an important element of the context in which Rumi should be understood.
We are excited to announce that Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is the new faculty director...
The Selection Committee is pleased to announce Isabel Kendall as the winner of the...
