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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East Aaron Rock-Singer, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies RSVP Here! Salafis explicitly base their...

Speaker 1: Myriam Amri (PhD Candidate, Anthropology and CMES) Prospectus: TBC Speaker 2: Mitch Bacci (PhD Candidate, History and CMES) Prospectus: Narcotics and Public Health in the Late Ottoman and Interwar Eastern Mediterranean The Middle East Beyond...

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...

Co-sponsor: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard (PIL) Come hear Professor Jayanth Krishnan, the Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the director of the Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal...

This paper interrogates the epistemological frameworks through which the intellectual heritage of Muslim societies has been constructed, with particular attention to the case of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808 AH / 1406 CE) and Ibn ʿArafa al-Warghamī (d. 803 AH /...