Podcast

Harvard Islamica, the podcast of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, explores topics related to the scholarly study of Islam and Muslim societies at Harvard and beyond.

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Ep. 1 | Reviving Turāth: Islamic Education in Modern Egypt | Dr. Mary Elston

Ep. 2 | Looking Back on Islamic Studies at Harvard | Roy Mottahedeh, William Graham, and Ali Asani

Ep. 3 | The Making of an Islamic Historian | Prof. Roy Mottahedeh

Ep. 4 | Podcasting and the Islamic History Classroom | Chris Gratien and Dana Sajdi

Ep. 5 | Establishing Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies at Harvard | Prof. William A. Graham

Ep. 6 | Giving Voice to Silenced Islams | Prof. Ali Asani

Ep. 7 | Seeking What Is Good: Harvard Law Review, Islamic Law, and Legal Studies Across Traditions | Dr. Hassaan Shahawy

Ep. 8 | How Has the Pandemic Affected Religious Behavior in the Muslim World? | Tarek Masoud, Kadir Yildirim, and Peter Mandaville

Ep. 9 | Beyond the Realm of Religion: The Idea of the Secular in Premodern Islam | Dr. Rushain Abbasi

Ep. 10 | Islamic Scholarship in Africa | Ousmane Kane and Ebrima Sall

Ep. 11 | Preserving Islamicate Cultural Heritage from Harvard’s Libraries to the Balkans | András Riedlmayer

Ep. 12 | Revisiting 'Women and Gender in Islam' | Leila Ahmed and Kecia Ali

Ep. 13 | The Ties That Bind: Child Custody in Andalusī Mālikism, 3rd/9th to 6th/12 c. | Dr. Janan Delgado

Ep. 14 | Ottoman Boston: Discovering Little Syria | Chloe Bordewich and Lydia Harrington

Ep. 15 | Reconstructing Alamut: New Approaches to the Study of the Nizari Ismaili Polity in Iran | Dr. Shiraz Hajiani

Ep. 16 | The Making of the Modern Muslim State | Prof. Malika Zeghal

Ep. 18 | Islam in North America | Dr. Hussein Rashid

Ep. 19 | Portrait of a Moroccan ʿĀlim: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī’s Life, Works, and World | Dr. Armaan Siddiqi

The views expressed in the podcast do not represent the views of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program or Harvard University.