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HDS 3340: Communities of Knowledge: Science, Religion and Culture in Medieval Europe and Islam

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Instructors: Ahmed Ragab and Katharine Park How did people understand nature in the Middle Ages? Is “premodern science” a contradiction in terms? What does it mean for science to be “religious”? How did medieval “Western” and “Islamic” civilization differ...

MEDVLSTD 250: At Cross Purposes: The Crusades in Material Culture

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Instructor: Evridiki Georganteli Crusading expeditions in the Holy Land, Spain, and Eastern Europe from 1096 until the end of the Middle Ages shaped the political, socio-economic, and cultural map of Europe and the Middle East. This course explores the...

HDS 3081: God's Nations: Religion, Nationalism and Modernity

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Instructor: Jocelyne Cesari Nationalism is not simply an ideology: it is also a set of practices by which territory, political power and the cultural identity of the people that inhabit this territory are constituted in a unique and singular fact. The...

DES 3336/ANTHRO 2695: Landscape Fieldwork: People, Politics, Practices

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Instructor: Gareth Doherty This lecture course views landscape through social and cultural practices. Through people, we will explore landscape’s critical, ethical, and political power to shape the world. The course will provide students with fieldwork...

Seminar (via Zoom): "Rethinking the History of Plague in the Time of Coronavirus" by Nükhet Varlık

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Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University - Newark and the University of South Carolina RSVP HERE

"Rethinking the History of Plague in the Time of Coronavirus" by Nükhet Varlık

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On April 30, 2020, Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University - Newark and the University of South Carolina, delivered a timely webinar discussing the plague in European and Ottoman historiography, questioning Eurocentric...

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

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Professor William Graham talks about his scholarly journey and how he "stumbled" into Islamic studies after pursuing other subjects including Classics and Sanskrit and Indian studies. He also shares his memories of his advisors at Harvard, Wilfred...

Stephen Sewall's Lecture Notes

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Stephen Sewall’s Lecture Notes [1] Stephen Sewall (1734-1804), Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, delivered these lectures at Harvard about the history of Arabic and its value in Biblical studies. In Lecture XXXVIII, Sewall...

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

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In this first episode in a four-part series, former Alwaleed Program directors, Professors Roy Mottahedeh, William Graham, and Ali Asani, share reflections on the development of Islamic studies over the course of their careers, first as students and then...

Past AISP Fellows

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Former Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Fellows 2015 - 2016 Armaan Siddiqi Ph.D. candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ms. Siddiqi has cross-disciplinary interests in early modern Islamic intellectual history...

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

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The Alwaleed Program team speak with Dr. Mary Elston, winner of the 2020 Alwaleed Bin Talal Prize for Best Dissertation in Islamic Studies, about her dissertation entitled, "Reviving Turāth: Islamic Education in Modern Egypt." Mary shares her findings...

Salman Keshavjee

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