Seminar: "Being and Becoming Islamic: Traditions from the Islamic East" by Teren Sevea
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RSVP Here Teren Sevea, Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
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Book Talk: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
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Book Talk: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment Tuesday, November 12, 2019 | 5:15-6:45pm | CMES 102, 38 Kirkland St. Ahmet T. Kuru, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University Co-sponsors: The Middle East Initiative at Harvard...
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...
Ousmane Kane
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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society Professor of African and African American Studies Denominational Counselor to Muslim Students Ousmane Kane, a scholar of Islamic studies and comparative and Islamic politics...
Between Drought and Drowning: Lessons from the Maldives, Pakistan, and Sudan by Erum Sattar
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The Alwaleed Bin Talal Series on Climate Change and Muslim Societies presents: Between Drought and Drowning: Lessons from the Maldives, Pakistan, and Sudan Monday, March 27, 2023 | 4-5:30pm ET | Emerson 104, 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Erum...
Medieval Academy of America Centennial Meeting
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The Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 20-22 March 2025, hosted by Harvard University in collaboration with Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis...
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The Research Methods in Islamic Studies Workshop is a bi-annual workshop that engages graduate students and faculty active in the field of Islamic Studies around current methodological questions. Where Islamic Studies is informed by, intervenes in, and...
Animals, Law and Religion Project
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Housed within the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard, Animals, Law, and Religion (ALR) is an inter-disciplinary and comparative project that works at the intersection of religious laws and practices and animal welfare and rights. The project focuses...
The day of 'Ashura in Islamic history
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TODAY IN ISLAMIC HISTORY The 10 th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, known as ‘Ashura, is observed by Muslims around the world for its various associations. Most notably known for the Battle of Karbala in 61 A.H. / 680 C.E., in...
Program in Islamic Law: BOOK TALK ON AFGHANISTAN RISING: ISLAMIC LAW AND STATECRAFT BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH EMPIRES
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LUNCH TALK :: BOOK TALK ON AFGHANISTAN RISING: ISLAMIC LAW AND STATECRAFT BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH EMPIRES (HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017) Feb 6 | 12.00-1.00p | Austin 102 Author: FAIZ AHMED, Associate Professor of History, Brown University...
Seminar: City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries
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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...
Khaled El-Rouayheb New Director of Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program
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We are excited to announce that Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is the new faculty director of the Alwaleed Islamic...