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***Due to the focus on resources that require a Harvard ID, this workshop is open to Harvard-affiliates only. We hope non-Harvard affiliates will join us for events open to the public in the future! Presenters: Sarah DeMott Middle East Liaison and...

Harvard's Islamic Collection in and beyond Cambridge Thursday, November 19, 2020 | 10:30am - 1pm | RSVP for Zoom link Presenters: Joseph Kinzer Senior Curatorial Assistant, Archive of World Music, Loeb Music Library Michael Rocke Nicky Mariano Librarian...

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...

On October 9, 2018, the Alwaleed Program co-spnsored a timely event on China's current detention of members of its Uighur Muslim minority in "re-education camps" in the northwest province of Xinjiang with the alleged aim of de-radicalization. Adrian Zenz...

On December 6, 2018, the Alwaleed Program held the inaugural event in the Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies. In room packed with students, faculty and visiting fellows, world-renowned philologist and scholar of Islamic intellectual history...

Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter

Kecia Ali, Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University Watch the video:

On May 2, 2019, Rudolph Ware, Associate Professor of History at University of California at Santa Barbara, delivered the final seminar of the year on the abolition movement in Islamic West Africa.

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 April 11, 2019, Professor Felicitas Opwis, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, presented for the Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies on al-Ghazālī's use of syllogistic logic in developing the concept...

On September 28, 2018, the Alwaleed Program hosted a day-long conference in honor of Professor William A. Graham's career and scholarship. Professor Graham retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard that included serving as the...