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Speaker: Kirsten Wesselhoeft (Religion Dept., Vassar College) Book Chapter: “A Muslim Elite?” in forthcoming book, Muslims of the Present: Islamic Ethics, Social Critique, and the Inheritance of Immigration in France The MEBB workshop meets 6:00pm - 7...

Speaker: Mary Elston (PhD Student, NELC) Dissertation chapter: “Experiencing the Manhaj: Language, Time, and Knowledge in the Azhar Study Circles.” The MEBB workshop meets 6:00pm - 7:30pm at the Kresge Room (114) of the Barker Center (Dinner is served)...

Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History The early sixteenth-century Ottoman realm saw an unprecedented surge of the production of copies comprising one or a few selected chapters of the Qur’an. Commissioned by the sultan and...

Islam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous extremely talented students who are conducting fine studies that have great impact in all fields in the humanities and social sciences...

LUNCH TALK :: BOOK TALK ON AFGHANISTAN RISING: ISLAMIC LAW AND STATECRAFT BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH EMPIRES (HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017) Feb 6 | 12.00-1.00p | Austin 102 Author: FAIZ AHMED, Associate Professor of History, Brown University...

M ARION K ATZ , P ROFESSOR OF M IDDLE E ASTERN AND I SLAMIC S TUDIES , N EW Y ORK U NIVERSITY L ECTURE : “W IVES , H OUSEWORK , AND THE C HANGING B OUNDARY BETWEEN I SLAMIC L AW AND E THICS ” Feb 13 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lewis 214A Recent years have seen...

A ARON S PEVACK , V ISITING F ELLOW , P ROGRAM IN I SLAMIC L AW (PIL), H ARVARD L AW S CHOOL L UNCH T ALK :: “I SLAMIC F INANCE AND T ALFIQ : P IECING T OGETHER A N EW E CONOMY ” Feb 26 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Austin 102 Although pre-modern scholars often...

M OHAMMAD F ADEL , P ROFESSOR OF L AW , U NIVERSITY OF T ORONTO Nisa' 4:34 has received a disproportionate share of commentary among reformist Muslim scholars of this generation insofar as its plain sense appears to affirm the right of the husband not...

M ARIAM S HEIBANI , V ISITING F ELLOW , P ROGRAM IN I SLAMIC L AW (PIL), H ARVARD L AW S CHOOL This paper analyzes two early compilations of legal canons and distinctions by Mamluk-era jurists: the Qawāʿid by the Shāfiʿī jurist ʿIzz al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al...

M ARZIEH T OFIGHI D ARIAN , SJD C ANDIDATE , H ARVARD L AW S CHOOL Based on a recently-published work on the Islamic Law Forum << here>>, Marzieh Tofighi Darian will discuss the practice of the Guardian Council, the organ of judicial review in Iran...