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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...

On May 6, 2020, Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin, delivered a webinar as part of our Director's Series on the previously-overlooked history of the devastating 'Spanish' influenza in Egypt in 1918 and how...

On November 25, 2019, Robert Gleave, Profesor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter, spoke at Harvard Law School about the early development of Imami Shiite law and its relation to the development of the broader Islamic legal tradition. Watch the...

TODAY IN ISLAMIC HISTORY The 10 th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, known as ‘Ashura, is observed by Muslims around the world for its various associations. Most notably known for the Battle of Karbala in 61 A.H. / 680 C.E., in...