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Ep. 12 | Revisiting 'Women and Gender in Islam' | Leila Ahmed and Kecia Ali

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Professor Leila Ahmed's book, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (1992) was published in a time in which there was little scholarship on the history of women in Islam. Over the years, it became a classic and was re-published in...

Book Talk: In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in Twentieth-Century Middle East by Aaron Rock-Singer

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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East Aaron Rock-Singer, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies RSVP Here! Salafis explicitly base their...

Seminar: Manifesto of the Great Resurrection (Qiyamat-i buzurg)

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Shiraz Hajiani Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Research Associate in Transcendence and Transformation, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School RSVP Here!

Ep. 13 | The Ties That Bind: Child Custody in Andalusī Mālikism, 3rd/9th to 6th/12 c. | Dr. Janan Delgado

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Dr. Janan Delgado is the winner of the 2022 Alwaleed Bin Talal Dissertation Prize in Islamic Studies for her dissertation entitled, "The Ties That Bind: Child Custody in Andalusī Mālikism, 3rd/9th to 6th/12th c." While scholars of Islamic law have...

ISLAMCIV 111: Transforming Tradition: Islamic Education in the Modern Muslim World

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Instructor: Mary Elston What counts as Islamic knowledge, how should it be transmitted, and who gets to decide? Muslim communities have grappled with these questions since the early days of Islam, yet in the 19th and 20th centuries such questions took on...

ISLAMCIV 201: Islamic Intellectual History: An Introduction to the Field

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Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb This course introduces students to recent scholarship on Islamic intellectual history, as well as to competing approaches to intellectual history as a discipline. We will read about the major approaches to intellectual...

GENED 1123: Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East

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Instructor: Malika Zeghal Today’s news headlines consistently point to the role that religion plays in the political life of Middle Eastern societies. But do these headlines tell the whole story? This course will challenge simplistic explanations of the...

GENED 1134/HDS 3628: Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies

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Instructor: Ali Asani People from diverse religious backgrounds are in closer contact with one another than ever before. Yet, without the intellectual tools needed to engage with and understand religious difference, this closer contact often has resulted...

RELIGION 1891R: Topics in Shii History, Thought and Literature

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Instructor: Ali Asani A course on selected topics in Shii History, Thought and Literature. Permission of the instructor required.

HDS 3059/DPI 398: Islam and the Age of Democracy: Origins, Continuity and Change

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Instructor: Khalil Abdur-Rashid This course is designed to prepare students to effectively engage with Islam, members of the Muslim community, and the Muslim world broadly speaking. The first portion of the course provides students with a broad...

HDS 3171: Spiritual Cultivation in Islam Part I: The Classical Era

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Instructor: Ousmane Kane and Khalil Abdur-Rashid This course, as part of the new HDS Initiative on Islamic Spiritual Life and Service, is intended for students preparing for vocation in a variety of settings in which they will provide Islamically-inspired...

ISLAMCIV 179/HDS 3357: Critical Perspectives on the Dynamics and Development of Islam in Africa

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Instructor: Ousmane Kane An estimated 450 to 500 million Muslims live in Africa—close to a third of the global Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of them live in the northern half of the continent, above the equator. The spread of Islam...

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Ep. 12 | Revisiting 'Women and Gender in Islam' | Leila Ahmed and Kecia Ali

Book Talk: In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in Twentieth-Century Middle East by Aaron Rock-Singer

Seminar: Manifesto of the Great Resurrection (Qiyamat-i buzurg)

Ep. 13 | The Ties That Bind: Child Custody in Andalusī Mālikism, 3rd/9th to 6th/12 c. | Dr. Janan Delgado

ISLAMCIV 111: Transforming Tradition: Islamic Education in the Modern Muslim World

ISLAMCIV 201: Islamic Intellectual History: An Introduction to the Field

GENED 1123: Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East

GENED 1134/HDS 3628: Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies

RELIGION 1891R: Topics in Shii History, Thought and Literature

HDS 3059/DPI 398: Islam and the Age of Democracy: Origins, Continuity and Change

HDS 3171: Spiritual Cultivation in Islam Part I: The Classical Era

ISLAMCIV 179/HDS 3357: Critical Perspectives on the Dynamics and Development of Islam in Africa