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Middle East Beyond Borders Session V

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Speaker: Caitlyn Olson (PhD Candidate, NELC) Dissertation chapter: "Activist Creedal Pedagogy in 10th/16th-century Northern Morocco" Paper circulated one week in advance, kindly email: jmakar@g.harvard.edu or asiddiqi@g.harvard.edu to obtain a copy and...

Seminar: "On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran" by Bahman Khodadadi

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A talk on, On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran Bahman Khodadadi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School Co-sponsor: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School RSVP Here

RPL Book Talk: "Islam in North America: An Introduction" by Hussein Rashid and Huma Mohibullah

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Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divnity School Book Talk "Islam in North America: An Introduction" edited by Hussein Rashid, Huma Muhibbullah, Vincent Biondo Register here

"Early Shiite Law and the Construction of the Shari'a" by Robert Gleave

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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...

Conference on the Transmission and Reception of the Qurʾān in Light of Recent Scholarship

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At the end of the Fall 2019 semester, Professor Shady Nasser convened a conference in which leading experts in Qurʾānic studies from North America and Europe shared their recent and impactful work related to the history of the reception of the Qurʾān. The...

Seminar: Al-Ghazālī and the Epistemology of Legal Analogy (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law

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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...

Thinking Islam

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Thinking Islam within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures A celebration of Professor William A. Graham Professor William A. Graham retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard. Please join us for a day-long...

Book Talk: The Caliphate of Man by Andrew March

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Book Talk: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought Thursday, September 19th | 4-5:30pm | Allison Dining Room (5th Floor) Taubman Hall, Harvard Kennedy School Andrew March, Associate Professor of Political Science at University...

Lecture: Promise, Punishment, and the Arc of History in the Qur'an by Mohsen Goudarzi

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Mohsen Goudarzi, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, will present his candidate lecture on Tuesday, February 4, at 5:15 pm, in Room 117 of 60 Oxford Street. The title of his talk is “Promise, Punishment, and the Arc of History in the Qur'an.”...

Climate Series: "Landscape, Garden, and a Colonial Legacy" by Jala Makhzoumi

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The Alwaleed Program's Series on Climate Change and Muslim Societies and Aga Khan Program at the GSD are proud to present: Landscape, Garden, and a Colonial Legacy Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | 6:30-8pm | Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School...

Lecture: Qur'anic Exegesis Between Twelver Shi’ism and Sufism: Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Tafsīr al-Muḥīṭ al-a’ẓam (Commentary of the Greatest Ocean) by Nicholas Boylston

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Nicholas Boylston, College Fellow, Harvard University, will present his candidate lecture on Thursday, February 20, at 5:15 pm, in Room 117 of 60 Oxford Street. The title of his talk is "Quranic Exegesis Between Twelver Shi’ism and Sufism: Sayyid Ḥaydar...

Lecture: Love, Sex and Guns: The Importance of being Malay and Islamic by Terenjit Savea

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Terenjit Sevea, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, will present his candidate lecture on Wednesday, February 12, at 5:15 pm, in Room 119 of 60 Oxford Street. The title of his talk is "Love, Sex and Guns: The Importance of being Malay and...

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Middle East Beyond Borders Session V

Seminar: "On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran" by Bahman Khodadadi

RPL Book Talk: "Islam in North America: An Introduction" by Hussein Rashid and Huma Mohibullah

"Early Shiite Law and the Construction of the Shari'a" by Robert Gleave

Conference on the Transmission and Reception of the Qurʾān in Light of Recent Scholarship

Seminar: Al-Ghazālī and the Epistemology of Legal Analogy (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law

Thinking Islam

Book Talk: The Caliphate of Man by Andrew March

Lecture: Promise, Punishment, and the Arc of History in the Qur'an by Mohsen Goudarzi

Climate Series: "Landscape, Garden, and a Colonial Legacy" by Jala Makhzoumi

Lecture: Qur'anic Exegesis Between Twelver Shi’ism and Sufism: Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Tafsīr al-Muḥīṭ al-a’ẓam (Commentary of the Greatest Ocean) by Nicholas Boylston

Lecture: Love, Sex and Guns: The Importance of being Malay and Islamic by Terenjit Savea