Central Asia

2024 Mar 19

Seminar: "Islam and Buddhism: Observations from an Emerging Field" by Anna Akasoy

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

CGIS South S050 Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room

Anna Akasoy, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Graduate Center, CUNY

Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

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PERSIAN 220: Intellectual and Literary Foundations of Classical Persian Poetry

Instructor: Nicholas Boylston

This seminar examines the major intellectual and literary genres that shaped the formation of the classical Persian poetic tradition and the contexts in which this occurred from the 10th to 12th centuries CE. Reading classic and current scholarship as...

PERSIAN 108/HDS 3045: Persian Sufi Literature

Instructor: Nicholas Boylston

In this course we will explore the major genres of classical Persian Sufi poetry and prose. In addition to examining the formation of these genres and their contexts of composition, we will pursue a range of broader questions, including: What is Sufism...

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 with Islam locally,...

2020 Nov 03

Seminar: "Mobility, Power, and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire" by Ahmed al-Rahim

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

via Zoom

Ahmed al-Rahim, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia

Co-sponsor: Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

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2020 Oct 20

Seminar: "After the Canon: A History of Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission" by Garrett Davidson

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

via Zoom

Garrett Davidson, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Muslim World Studies, College of Charleston

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2019 Mar 26

Celebrate Nowruz

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Semitic Museum, 3rd Floor

On March 26, 2019, the Alwaleed Program co-sponsored a celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year that takes place on the day of the spring equinox and is celebrated throughout the Persianate world, most of which consists of Muslim-majority countries.

The event featured a vibrant haft sin table that displayed seven items beginning with the letter sin that symbolize concepts such as abundance, prosperity and new life to usher in the new year. Over 200 guests also enjoyed fresh fruit and Iranian sweets alongside live performances...

Program in Islamic Law: BOOK TALK ON AFGHANISTAN RISING: ISLAMIC LAW AND STATECRAFT BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH EMPIRES

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Austin 102

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
Moderator: Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic Law (PIL), Harvard Law
School
Respondent: Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic
Thought and Life
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