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The Qandūsī Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt: a panel and facsimile presentation

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The Harvard Fine Arts Library and Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program are proud to present: The Qandūsī Dalā ʾ il al-Khayrāt : a panel and facsimile presentation February 10 th, 2025, 6pm Lower Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway Street RSVP Here In 2024, the...

African Landscape Architectures: Alternative Futures for the Field

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The African Landscape Architectures Conference is co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program More information

MODMDEST 315: Reading al-Manar in the Interwar Period

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Instructor: Malika Zeghal Meeting approximately every other week, students will establish digital maps and databases based on al-Manar and other periodicals in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt in the Inter War Period. Enrollment only by instructor's permission...

MODMDEST 110/210: Colonization and Decolonization in the Maghrib and Egypt (19th-20th c.)

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Instructor: Malika Zeghal This course examines colonization and decolonization in the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia—and Egypt. Through the historiography of colonialisms and nationalisms in the region, as well as primary sources, we will focus on the...

Seminar: The Rule of Recognition and the Consolidation of the Maliki Madhhab in the 14th Century by Mohammad Fadel

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Thursday, March 9, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | Barker Center 133 (Plimpton Room) | RSVP Here Mohammad Fadel, Professor of Law, University of Toronto Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

New article by Professor Malika Zeghal: "The Shaping of the 1857 Security Pact in the Regency of Tunis"

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Abstract: This article examines the creation of the 1857 Security Pact ( ʿAhd al-amān) in the Regency of Tunis. This law is commonly viewed as having been drafted and imposed by the European powers as a replication of the Ottoman Tanẓīmāt and as having...

Lecture: “Three Moons, Water Buffalo Skins, & Digital Codicology: Snapshots of Ibadi Muslim Manuscript Cultures in North Africa" by Paul Love

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“Three Moons, Water Buffalo Skins, & Digital Codicology: Snapshots of Ibadi Muslim Manuscript Cultures in North Africa" by Paul Love, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco with comments by Matthew Steele (NELC, Havard)...

Seminar: "Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib" by Amira Bennison

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Amira Bennison, Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib, University of Cambridge 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

MEBB Session V: Prospectus Day

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Speaker 1: Myriam Amri (PhD Candidate, Anthropology and CMES) Prospectus: TBC Speaker 2: Mitch Bacci (PhD Candidate, History and CMES) Prospectus: Narcotics and Public Health in the Late Ottoman and Interwar Eastern Mediterranean The Middle East Beyond...