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Workshop: "Materials from the Islamic East: Textual Traditions from the Malay World and Java"

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Materials from the Islamic East: Textual Traditions from the Malay World and Java* Chair: Teren Sevea, Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School The presentations of this workshop introduce textu traditions and...

Seminar: "A Song Too Serious To Sing: Islam and the Licit Musics of the Arabian Peninsula" by Bradford Garvey

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RSVP Here Bradford Garvey, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Brandeis University

Ep. 10 | Islamic Scholarship in Africa | Ousmane Kane and Ebrima Sall

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In this episode, we discuss the new edited volume, Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts, with its editor, Professor Ousmane Kane, and his colleague, Dr. Ebrima Sall, who wrote the conclusion. This volume is the product of two...

Ep. 10 | Islamic Scholarship in Africa | Ousmane Kane and Ebrima Sall

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In this episode, we discuss the new edited volume, Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts, with its editor, Professor Ousmane Kane, and his colleague, Dr. Ebrima Sall, who wrote the conclusion. This volume is the product of two...

Workshop: Research Methods in Islamic Studies - POSTPONED

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, this workshop has been postponed. Please keep an eye out for future workshop announcements!

Ep. 11 | Preserving Islamicate Cultural Heritage from Harvard’s Libraries to the Balkans | András Riedlmayer

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The Alwaleed Program team speaks with András Riedlmayer, former Aga Khan Bibliographer of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard's Fine Arts Library, about his career as a librarian, the development of the field of the history of Islamic art and...

Ep. 11 | Preserving Islamicate Cultural Heritage from Harvard’s Libraries to the Balkans | András Riedlmayer

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The Alwaleed Program team speaks with András Riedlmayer, former Aga Khan Bibliographer of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard's Fine Arts Library, about his career as a librarian, the development of the field of the history of Islamic art and...

ARABIC 259: Introduction to Medieval Arabic Rhetoric

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Instructors: Shady Nasser and Khaled El-Rouayheb Description: An introduction to the medieval Arabic tradition of rhetoric (balagha). We will read Arabic texts that illustrate the historical evolution of the genre, as well as more systematic introductions...

ARABIC 150R: Themes in Arabic Literature

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Instructor: Shady Nasser This course will introduce students to the major writers, canonical works, and important literary movements of Arabic Literature from late antiquity up to the modern period. The course will be structured thematically with special...

ISLAMCIV 110/HDS 3064: Major Works of Islamic Civilizations

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Instructor: Khaled El-Rouayheb This course offers a reading of a number of major works of Islamic Civilization, for example from the universal chronicle of al-Tabari (d. 923), the forty hadith of al-Nawawi (d. 1277), a work on the lives of the Shi’i Imams...

ISLAMCIV 241R: Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam

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Instructor: Ali Asani Description: A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia. Course Notes: Open to undergraduates with a background in Islamic or South Asian studies. Recommended Prep...

GENED 1087/HDS 3627: Multisensory Religion: Rethinking Islam

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Instructor: Ali Asani One need only walk into a church, a mosque, a temple, a synagogue or any place of worship to experience the beauty and aesthetic power of religion. For millions of people around the world, understanding of religion is forged through...