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Book Talk: The Caliphate of Man by Andrew March

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Book Talk: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought Thursday, September 19th | 4-5:30pm | Allison Dining Room (5th Floor) Taubman Hall, Harvard Kennedy School Andrew March, Associate Professor of Political Science at University...

HDS 3620: Introduction to Islamic Mystical Traditions

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Instructor: Ali Asani This course offers an introductory survey of mystical traditions of Islam, popularly labelled as “Sufism.” It explores the fundamental concepts, practices, and institutions associated with these traditions, their historical...

Ep. 16 | The Making of the Modern Muslim State | Prof. Malika Zeghal

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In her recent book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024), Professor Malika Zeghal shows how Muslim states negotiated the role of Islam in governance in the 19 th...

FRSEMR 37Y: Muslim Voices in Contemporary World Literatures

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Instructor: Ali Asani Description: What do Muslims think of acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam, the mixing of religion with politics, the rights of women, the ``West''? This seminar investigates the viewpoints of prominent Muslim writers on...

Workshop: Library Resources for Islamic Studies

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The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents: Library Resources for Islamic Studies Workshop Friday, October 31, 2025 | 9am-12pm | Lamont B30 Speakers Sarah DeMott , Lamont Library Michael Hopper , Widener Library Ramona Crawford , Widener...

Announcing 2022-23 Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellows

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Join us in welcoming the Alwaleed Program's first cohort of postdoctoral fellows in many years! Mary Elston is an interdisciplinary scholar of Islam whose research focuses on politics, religion, and conceptual change in the late Ottoman, modern, and...

ISLAMCIV 178/HDS 3625: Being Muslim in South Asia: Religion, Culture, and Identity

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Instructor: Ali Asani South Asia is home to the largest population of Muslims in the world. And yet, within South Asia, Muslims are a minority. What is Islam and what does it mean to be Muslim in South Asia? After briefly examining the historical...

Ep. 19 | Portrait of a Moroccan ʿĀlim: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī’s Life, Works, and World | Dr. Armaan Siddiqi

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Dr. Armaan Siddiqi is the winner of the 2024 Alwaleed Bin Talal Dissertation Prize in Islamic Studies for her dissertation, "Portrait of a Moroccan ʿālim: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī’s Life, Works, and World (1858 - 1927)." In this episode...

Mary Elston

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Mary Elston is an interdisciplinary scholar of Islam who examines politics, religion, and conceptual change in the late Ottoman, modern, and contemporary periods. Mary received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University...

Ep. 3 | The Making of an Islamic Historian | Prof. Roy Mottahedeh

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Professor Roy Mottahedeh shares with the Alwaleed Program team how he entered the field of Islamic studies as an undergraduate at Harvard in the late 1950s and his development and career as a historian. Originally interested in studying Persian after...

BOOK TALK – THE STORY OF THE DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE COURTS

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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...

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...

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Book Talk: The Caliphate of Man by Andrew March

HDS 3620: Introduction to Islamic Mystical Traditions

Ep. 16 | The Making of the Modern Muslim State | Prof. Malika Zeghal

FRSEMR 37Y: Muslim Voices in Contemporary World Literatures

Workshop: Library Resources for Islamic Studies

Announcing 2022-23 Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellows

ISLAMCIV 178/HDS 3625: Being Muslim in South Asia: Religion, Culture, and Identity

Ep. 19 | Portrait of a Moroccan ʿĀlim: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī’s Life, Works, and World | Dr. Armaan Siddiqi

Mary Elston

Ep. 3 | The Making of an Islamic Historian | Prof. Roy Mottahedeh

BOOK TALK – THE STORY OF THE DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE COURTS

Ep. 11 | Preserving Islamicate Cultural Heritage from Harvard’s Libraries to the Balkans | András Riedlmayer