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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...

A large-scale calligraphic panel from Morocco features stylized views of Mecca and Medina and representation of the Prophet Muhammad’s sandals, alongside prayers praising the Prophet and a selection of verses from the Qur’an. This striking work raises the...

In this seminar, Mounia Chekhab Aboudaya, curator for North Africa and Iberia at the Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar, and Rachel Parikh, the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will explore the religious and...

Places are limited. Please register: http://bit.ly/IslamicManuscriptsRettig

Lecture Recap by Farah El-Sharif Seminar Coordinator / PhD Candidate in Islamic Intellectual History The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Seminar hosted Professor Zareena Grewal, Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, and Middle East Studies...

On March 28, 2019, Harvard's own Professor Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Research Professor of History, presented his new philological research on terms for city and countryside in medieval Arabic-Persian dictionaries for the Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in...

On March 8, 2019, the Alwaleed Program held a hands-on workshop organized by Workshop Coordinator Johannes Makar (Ph.D. student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) and run by digital humanities experts, Cole Crawford and Rashmi Singhal of Digital...

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...

Speaker: Caitlyn Olson (PhD Candidate, NELC) Dissertation chapter: "Activist Creedal Pedagogy in 10th/16th-century Northern Morocco" Paper circulated one week in advance, kindly email: jmakar@g.harvard.edu or asiddiqi@g.harvard.edu to obtain a copy and...

Speaker: Prof. Rosie Bsheer (Faculty, History & CMES) Paper circulated one week in advance, kindly email: jmakar@g.harvard.edu or asiddiqi@g.harvard.edu to obtain a copy and RSVP.