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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...

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...

Stephen Sewall’s Lecture Notes [1] Stephen Sewall (1734-1804), Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, delivered these lectures at Harvard about the history of Arabic and its value in Biblical studies. In Lecture XXXVIII, Sewall...

The Alwaleed Program team speak with Dr. Mary Elston, winner of the 2020 Alwaleed Bin Talal Prize for Best Dissertation in Islamic Studies, about her dissertation entitled, "Reviving Turāth: Islamic Education in Modern Egypt." Mary shares her findings...