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HDS 3058: Gender, Islam and Debates surrounding Female Vocal Nudity in West Africa (Nigeria and Niger)

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Instructor: Rahina Muazu The perception of the female voice in Muslim West Africa as part of her ʿ awra (nudity, nakedness), which is determining socially and religiously acceptable gender roles for women, is not only a result of difference in legal...

HDS 3081: God's Nations: Religion, Nationalism and Modernity

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Instructor: Jocelyne Cesari Nationalism is not simply an ideology: it is also a set of practices by which territory, political power and the cultural identity of the people that inhabit this territory are constituted in a unique and singular fact. The...

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

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Instructor: Ali Asani A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia.

PERSIAN 252: Between Fiction and Science: The Form(s) of Knowledge in the Premodern Persianate World

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Instructor: Justine Landau This seminar explores the porous boundaries between fiction and science in premodern Persian literature, with readings selected from major prose and poetic texts from the 10th to the 16th century. Students will engage in the...

Second Annual Harvard-Zaytuna Research Symposium

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Harvard University and Zaytuna College are proud to announce their second annual symposium. This collaboration is a joint effort initiated by students at Harvard University and Zaytuna College. We aim to provide a space for undergraduates and masters’...

"The Textbook Tradition and Higher Research: Kātibī's Shamsiyyah on Disputed Points in Logic" by Dr. Tony Street

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Najm al-Din al-Katibi (d. 1276) wrote a logic text for intermediate students, The Epistle on Logical Rules for Shams al-Din. It became wildly successful, read by most students in the course of their madrasah education. What made it such a bestseller? Some...

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The Alwaleed Program supports faculty and student research in Islamic studies at Harvard. Early-Career Faculty Research Grants Alwaleed bin Talal Undergraduate and Doctoral Thesis Prizes in Islamic Studies

HDS 3063: Spiritual Care from a Muslim Perspective

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Instructor: Yunus Kumek This course introduces students to practices of spiritual care from a Muslim Perspective. As we will survey spiritual care practices of different Muslim cultures, our focus will be the relevant application of these practices in...

ISLAMCIV 181: Islam and Religious Diversity

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Instructor: Nicholas Boylston Questions arising from the diversity of religions recur in all of the major branches of Islamic thought and appear in complex permutations in diverse cultural contexts. Focusing primarily on pre-modern Islam, this course...

HDS 3063: Spiritual Care from a Muslim Perspective

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Instructor: Yunus Kumek This course introduces students to practices of spiritual care from a Muslim Perspective. As we will survey spiritual care practices of different Muslim cultures, our focus will be the relevant application of these practices in...

Remembering Professor Roy Mottahedeh (1940-2024)

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It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Roy Mottahedeh, a distinguished scholar and esteemed colleague. As the founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, he was dedicated to advancing the...

JEWISHST 161: Interreligious Encounters: Jews, Muslims and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Medieval Period

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Instructor: Miriam Goldstein The development and spread of Islam and the accompanying diffusion of the Arabic language brought religions in the Near East into contact in unprecedented ways. Judaism, Islam and Christianity were shaped and in turn shaped...

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HDS 3058: Gender, Islam and Debates surrounding Female Vocal Nudity in West Africa (Nigeria and Niger)

HDS 3081: God's Nations: Religion, Nationalism and Modernity

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

PERSIAN 252: Between Fiction and Science: The Form(s) of Knowledge in the Premodern Persianate World

Second Annual Harvard-Zaytuna Research Symposium

"The Textbook Tradition and Higher Research: Kātibī's Shamsiyyah on Disputed Points in Logic" by Dr. Tony Street

Research

HDS 3063: Spiritual Care from a Muslim Perspective

ISLAMCIV 181: Islam and Religious Diversity

HDS 3063: Spiritual Care from a Muslim Perspective

Remembering Professor Roy Mottahedeh (1940-2024)

JEWISHST 161: Interreligious Encounters: Jews, Muslims and Christians from Late Antiquity to the Medieval Period