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In this collaboration between the Harvard Islamica Podcast and the Ottoman History Podcast (OHP), we discuss OHP's new series called "The Making of the Islamic World," using podcasts in the classroom, and engaging in public-facing history in the changing...

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...

Professor Ali Asani tells the Alwaleed Program team about his scholarly trajectory, beginning with his experiences coming to Harvard College as an international student from Kenya and entering Islamic studies as an Ismaili student in the early 1970s. He...

In spring 2021, Hassaan Shahawy (A.B. '16, J.D. '22) was elected the 135th president of the Harvard Law Review, making him the first Muslim and first expert in Islamic law in the position. In the first half of our conversation, Hassaan talks about his...

On April 7, 2021, Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, spoke about the tradition of Mazhab-e 'Eshq, Path of Radical Love, of the mystics Ahmad al-Ghazali and Kharaqani as an important element of the context in which...

On April 29, 2021, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Brandeis University, gave a talk at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies about his new book, Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Darʾ...