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Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture: Gardens for All Seasons—The Persian Garden Carpet Tradition

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In-Person Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs This event requires registration; see further details below. Garden imagery has a long history in Iranian art as a metaphor...

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

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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 RSVP here!

PERSIAN 220: Intellectual and Literary Foundations of Classical Persian Poetry

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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...

PERSIAN 108/HDS 3045: Persian Sufi Literature

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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...

MUSIC 190R: Topics in World Music: Music in Islamic Contexts: South and Central Asia

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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...

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

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Ahmed al-Rahim, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia Co-sponsor: Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies RSVP for Zoom link

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

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Garrett Davidson, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Muslim World Studies, College of Charleston RSVP for Zoom link

Celebrate Nowruz

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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...

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

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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...

Salman Keshavjee

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