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Arabic Manuscripts Workshop (April 2023)

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This spring, Harvard students and visiting researchers had the opportunity to participate in a first-of-its-kind workshop held at the University on how to handle and study Arabic manuscripts. The workshop, hosted by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies...

"The 'Spanish' Influenza in Egypt" by Christopher Rose

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On May 6, 2020, Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin, delivered a webinar as part of our Director's Series on the previously-overlooked history of the devastating 'Spanish' influenza in Egypt in 1918 and how...

HDS 3689/AFRAMER 181X: African Religion in the Diaspora

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Instructor: Jacob Olupona This course focuses on the history and phenomenology of African peoples’ religious experiences in the Americas. The historical and social processes that led to the emergence of African diasporic religions in Latin America and the...

AFRAMER 181X/HDS 3689: African Religion in the Diaspora

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Intructor: Jacob Olupona This course focuses on the history and phenomenology of African peoples’ religious experiences in the Americas. The historical and social processes that led to the emergence of African diasporic religions in Latin America and the...

MODMDEST 207: Jihad, War and Peace in Islamic Law and Practice

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Instructor: Emad Shahin The concepts of Jihad, war and peace are clearly distinct in Islamic law. However, Jihad, war and violence are often conflated and are perceived as one and the same. Islam is often associated with war and violence and not peace...

HDS 3175: Indian Ocean Islam

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Instructors: Teren Sevea and Ali Asani Does thinking oceanically influence the study of Islam? Can we remember a people’s history of the Indian Ocean world? This course considers these questions and others as it focuses on religious worlds within port...