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158 results for "Harvard Student"
Workshop on Parchment, Paper, Inks, and Gold by David Roxburgh and Penley Knipe
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The workshop on May 1, 2025, will look at the materials and techniques of selected Qur’ans made between the 8 th and 15 th centuries in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums. We will look at the supports (paper and parchment), bindings (when...
MUSIC 291R: Music and Migration
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Instructors: Kay Shelemay, Kate van Orden, Cemal Kafadar Mediterranean Mobilities, Past and Present. This course will provide insight into music’s powerful role in human mobility, seeking to break down barriers between historical and ethnographic methods...
HDS 3169/ISLAMCIV 146: Al-Ghazali’s Thought and Legacy
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Instructor: Mariam Sheibani Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) is known as “The Proof of Islam” and is widely considered to be the most influential philosopher, theologian, and mystic in Sunni Islam. This course will serve as an inquiry into al-Ghazālī’s...
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg appointed Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture, Fine Arts Library
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On May 16, 2022, Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg will take on the role of Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture at the Fine Arts Library. Since January 2021, Amanda has served in the interim role of Aga Khan Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture...
Ep. 5 | Establishing Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies at Harvard | Prof. William A. Graham
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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...
Spiritual Cultivation in Islam Part I: The Classical Era
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This course, as part of the new HDS Initiative on Islamic Spiritual Life and Service, is intended for students preparing for vocation in a variety of settings in which they will provide Islamically-inspired service and support. The course will acquaint...
Program in Islamic Law Lunch Talk: “INFLUENCE, BORROWING, OR PLAGIARISM? THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL CANONS AND DISTINCTIONS IN MAMLUK-ERA ISLAMIC LAW”
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M ARIAM S HEIBANI , V ISITING F ELLOW , P ROGRAM IN I SLAMIC L AW (PIL), H ARVARD L AW S CHOOL This paper analyzes two early compilations of legal canons and distinctions by Mamluk-era jurists: the Qawāʿid by the Shāfiʿī jurist ʿIzz al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al...
HIST 2014: Historiography of the Modern Middle East: Proseminar
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Instructor: Rosie Bsheer This graduate seminar aims to familiarize students with some of the major debates in the field of modern Middle East history and pays careful attention to competing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. It will...
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...
"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...