Former Director of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los...
Nicholas Boylston, College Fellow, Harvard University, will present his candidate lecture on Thursday, February 20, at 5:15 pm, in Room 117 of 60 Oxford Street. The title of his talk is "Quranic Exegesis Between Twelver Shi’ism and Sufism: Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Tafsīr al-Muḥīṭ al-a’ẓam (Commentary of the Greatest Ocean)." Boylston will also be available for lunch with students earlier that same day, from noon to 1:30 pm, in the Common Room of the Center for the Study of World Religions. Lunch will be provided, and ...
Terenjit Sevea, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, will present his candidate lecture on Wednesday, February 12, at 5:15 pm, in Room 119 of 60 Oxford Street. The title of his talk is "Love, Sex and Guns: The Importance of being Malay and Islamic." Sevea will also be available for lunch with students earlier that same day, from noon to 1:30 pm, in the Common Room of the Center for the Study of World Religions. Lunch will be provided, and RSVPs are encouraged.
Mohsen Goudarzi, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, will present his candidate lecture on Tuesday, February 4, at 5:15 pm, in Room 117 of 60 Oxford Street. The title of his talk is “Promise, Punishment, and the Arc of History in the Qur'an.” Goudarzi will also be available for lunch with students on Wednesday, February 5, from noon to 1:30 pm, in the Common Room of the Center for the Study of World Religions. Lunch will be provided, and RSVPs are encouraged.
Join the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program in welcoming Dr. Alicia Izharuddin for a lecture entitled, “Not Knowing Shame: Rehabilitating Shamelessness in Modern Malaysian Muslim-Malay Society.”
This lecture is a part of the Harvard Divinity School Islamic Studies Faculty Candidates series.
Join the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program in welcoming Dr. Celene Ibrahim for a lecture entitled, "Vice and the Viceroy's Wife: Intersectional Analysis of a Qur'anic Temptress."
This lecture is a part of the Harvard Divinity School Islamic Studies Faculty Candidates series.
Sponsor: Harvard Divinity School, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Center for African Studies, Hutchins Center, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of African and African American Studies
Sponsor: Harvard Divinity School, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Center for African Studies, Hutchins Center, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of African and African American Studies
As part of the Islam in African Brown Bag Lecture Series, Pearl Robinson, Associate Professor of Politics at Tufts University, will present and comment on her film Mama Kiota...
