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Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of disciplines within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on...

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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Established in 1954 to support research and teaching on the Middle East, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies has produced generations of scholars with a profound understanding of and active engagement in the region. At the core of the Center’s mandate...

Mohsen Goudarzi

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Mohsen Goudarzi joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2021, having taught previously at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is a scholar of religion who studies the Qur’an and early Islamic history using a variety of analytical...

HDS 3117/RELIGION 1014TS: Animals and the Unseen

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Instructor: Teren Sevea This course considers how we can write histories of religious animals and the Unseen. Students will be introduced to academic literature that has criticized scholarly and popular conceptions of humans having a special status, and...

HAA 127M: Medieval Architecture in Greater Iran and Central Asia

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Instructor: David Roxburgh The seminar examines cities and monuments built in Greater Iran and Central Asia from the 11 th through 15 th centuries spanning three principal dynastic periods (Seljuqs, Mongols, and Timurids). Various functional types—mosques...

Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East

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The course critically examines the ideologies and political strategies of twentieth century Islamist movements, as well as their origins and evolution. It will relate the emergence of organized Islamist movements in the first part of the twentieth century...

Middle East Beyond Borders Session II

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Speaker: Jenny Peruski (PhD Student, History of Art & Architecture) Paper: "Sensuous Scripts: A Vocabulary of Islamic Calligraphy beyond the Middle East" The MEBB workshop meets 6:00pm - 7:30pm at the Kresge Room (114) of the Barker Center (Dinner is...