#  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 the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam and Islamic studies. The seminar series serves as an educational opportunity for students, researchers, and faculty to interact and learn in a seminar-style setting from world class experts on topics ranging from Islamic philosophy, Islamic history, Islamic law, Sufism, Arabic and Qur'anic studies and modern Islamic thought.



 

##  Spring 2026 

   ![Spring 2026 seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2026-03/HUIS_SEMINAR_SPR26_r5.jpg?itok=8r9ewEGL) 

 

**Editing Early Sufism: From Manuscript Discovery to Digital Corpus**

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 5-6:30pm

**Riccardo Paredi**, MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellow, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano and NYU Abu Dhabi

Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1176240566?fl=tl&fe=ec)

**A Book Talk on** ***Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk***

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 4-5:30pm

**Rosabel Ansari**, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1177826772?fl=tl&fe=ec)

**A Book Talk on** ***An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law***

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | 4-5:30pm

**Mariam Sheibani**, Assistant Professor of Islamic thought, Brandeis University

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1185229266?fl=tl&fe=ec)

**A Book Talk on** ***Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship and Technology in Colonial India***

Thursday, April 16, 2026 | 4-5:30pm

**Amanda Lanzillo**, Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Co-sponsors: Department of South Asian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1188453158?fl=tl&fe=ec)

**A Berber Sufi Scholar who Spoke Truth to Power in Arabic: The Remarkable Life of al-Hasan al-Yusi**

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 4-5:30pm

**Justin Stearns**, Professor of Arab Crossroads, NYU Abu Dhabi

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/harvardislamic/justinstearns?fl=tl&fe=ec)



 

##  Fall 2025 

   ![Fall 2025](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-09/huis_seminar_fall25_r2%20%281%29.jpg?itok=JP6XQvuB) 

 

**Ambassadors of a Lost Homeland: The Diplomacy of Survival in the Andalusian–Morisco Experience (13th–17th Centuries)**

Thursday, September 25, 2025

**Houssem Eddine Chachia**, Shawwaf Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1123991727?fl=tl&fe=ec)

**The Making of Classical Islamic Pedagogy: From Prophetic Traditions to Philosophical Ethics**

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

**Sebastian Güenther**, Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göettingen

Co-sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1131461045?fl=tl&fe=ec)

**Marrying Jinn: Haunted Memories and Supernatural Genealogies in the 19th Century**

Monday, November 10

**Beeta Baghoolizadeh**, Associate Research Scholar, Middle East Institute at Columbia University

Co-sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar



 

##  Spring 2025 

   ![Spring 2025 seminar poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_seminar_spr25_r3rev.jpg?itok=Oxf-txQy) 

 

**Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World: al-Maʿarrī and al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī**

Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 12-1:30pm | CMES 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 | [RSVP Here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeomDUnv3twRu5uo8HHEYFA_FlijSLA6YhUypTlVfdOAbELvQ/viewform?usp=sharing)

**Kevin Blankinship**, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Brigham Young University

Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1058373106?fl=tl&fe=ec)

***On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran***

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

**Bahman Khodadadi**, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

Co-sponsor: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School

**Angels Tapping at the Wine Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East**

Thursday, April 3, 2025

**Rudolph Matthee**, John A. Munroe and Dorothy L. Munroe Chair of History, University of Delaware

Co-sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1077292288?fl=tl&fe=ec)



 

##  Fall 2024 

   ![Fall 2024 seminar poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_seminar_fall24_r3.jpg?itok=4qhhJf1H) 

 

**A Book Talk on Nahj al-Balaghah, The Wisdom and Eloquence of Ali: Ethics, Aesthetics, Faith, and Politics in Early Islam**

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 | 12-1:30pm | Room 110 (Thompson Room), Barker Center

**Tahera Qutbuddin**, Abdulaziz Saud Albabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford

Co-sponsors: Committee on the Study of Religion, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1028506385)

**Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Nahdlatul Ulama and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics**

Monday, October 7, 2024 | 12-1:30pm | HMANE 201

**Robert Hefner**, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, Boston University

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1028581835)

**Travel Writing and the Production of a Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia**

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | 5-6:30pm | Room 133 (Plimpton Room, Barker Center

**Daniel Majchrowicz**, Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture, Northwestern University

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1027845121?fl=tl&fe=ec)



 

##  Spring 2024 

   ![Spring 2024](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_seminar_spr24_r3rev.jpg?itok=9-tEG4L6) 

 

**A Merchant of Knowledge at the Court of Bayezid II**

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | 12:30-2pm | CMES 102

**Robert Morrison**, George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Bowdoin College

Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Center for Middle Eastern Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/953293005?share=copy)

**Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality**

Thursday, February 22, 2024 | 12-1:30pm | HMANE 201

**Shenila Khoja-Moolji**, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, Georgetown University

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/922671069?share=copy)

**Islam and Buddhism: Observations from an Emerging Field**

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | 5-6:30pm | CGIS South S050

**Anna Akasoy**, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations



 

##  Fall 2023 

   ![Fall 2023 Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_pstr_fall23_r4.jpg?itok=qL9-cbKW) 

 

**Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim Saints**

Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | CMES 102

**Amina Elbendary**, Associate Professor of Middle East History, American University in Cairo and Shawwaf Visiting Professor

Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

**Revisiting History: Nurullah Shushtari on Shīʿī Historiography, Taqiyya & the Pre-Safavid Era**

Thursday, November 16, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | Plimpton Room, Barker Center

**Shahrad Shahvand**, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

**Ineffability and Adequation: Symmetries Between ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Theory of Language, Ontology and Mystical Epistemology**

Thursday, November 30, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | Thompson Room, Barker Center

**Nicholas Boylston**, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1044370452)



 

##  Spring 2023 

   ![Fall 2023 Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_pstr_fall23_r4.jpg?itok=qL9-cbKW) 

 

**Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim Saints**

Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | CMES 102

**Amina Elbendary**, Associate Professor of Middle East History, American University in Cairo and Shawwaf Visiting Professor

Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

**Revisiting History: Nurullah Shushtari on Shīʿī Historiography, Taqiyya & the Pre-Safavid Era**

Thursday, November 16, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | Plimpton Room, Barker Center

**Shahrad Shahvand**, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

**Ineffability and Adequation: Symmetries Between ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Theory of Language, Ontology and Mystical Epistemology**

Thursday, November 30, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | Thompson Room, Barker Center

**Nicholas Boylston**, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/1044370452)



 

##  Spring 2023 

   ![Spring 2023 Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_pstr_spring23_r3.jpg?itok=8W443JLO) 

 

**The Rule of Recognition and the Consolidation of the Maliki Madhhab in the 14th Century**

Thursday, March 9, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | Barker Center 133 (Plimpton Room)

**Mohammad Fadel**, Professor of Law, University of Toronto

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/836252154?share=copy)

**Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam**

Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 4-5:30pm | Barker Center 133 (Plimpton Room)

**Ayesha Irani**, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts in Boston

Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Department of South Asian Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/836243473?share=copy)

**The ‘Ulamā’s Tradition: Reconceptualizing and Editing Turāth in Modern Egypt**

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 12-1:30pm | CMES 102

**Mary Elston**, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Center for Middle Eastern Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/831551447?share=copy)



 

##  Fall 2022 

   ![Sean Anthony Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/aisp/files/harv_aisp_seananthony.jpg?itok=DcofluX_) 

 

**The Ummah and the Arabs: Ethnicity and Ideology under the Umayyads**

Thursday, October 6, 2022 | 4:00-5:30pm | Sackler Lecture Hall  
**Sean Anthony**, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University  
Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/771729744)

   ![Shiraz Hajiani Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/shiraz_hu_poster_v4_002.jpg?itok=B8Qn9eVc) 

 

**Manifesto of the Great Resurrection** ***(Qiyāmat-i buzurg)*****: Examining a rare subaltern Nizari Ismaili Shi'i treatise from the 12th century**

Thursday, November 10, 2022 | 4-5:30pm | CGIS South S354

**Shiraz Hajiani,** Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University  
Research Associate in Transcendence and Transformation, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School  
Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/792040919)



 

##  Spring 2022 

   ![Spring 2022 Seminar Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_pstr_spring22_r2_002.jpg?itok=e_6pijIR) 

 

**Debating Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India**

February 24, 2022 | 12-1:30pm ET

**Sohaira Siddiqui**, Associate Professor of Theology, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar

Co-sponsors: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and Department of South Asian Studies

**Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Many Legacies: Sunnī Revivalist, Jihād Advocate, & Syrian “Nationalist”**

March 24, 2022 | 4-5:30pm ET

**Suleiman Mourad**, Professor of Religion, Smith College

Co-sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/711721549)

**What is Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam and How is it Different from Philosophy in Islam’s Classical Period?**

April 7, 2021 | 4-5:30pm ET

**Frank Griffel**, Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Islamic Studies, Yale University

Co-sponsors: Department of Philosophy and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/738676919)



 

##  Fall 2021 

   ![Fall 2021 Seminar Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/aisp_fall_2021_v3.jpg?itok=336G2bZI) 

 

**Reflections on Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate**

Thursday, September 30, 2021 | 4-5:30pm

**Mohammed Bashir Salau**, Professor of History, University of Mississippi

Co-sponsor: Department of African and African American Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/667924764)

**Mimesis and Mythos in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics**

Thursday, October 21, 2021 | 4-5:30pm

**Lara Harb**, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

**Being and Becoming Islamic: Traditions from the Islamic East**

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | 4-5:30pm

**Teren Sevea**, Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Co-sponsor: Harvard Asia Center

**A Song Too Serious to Sing: Islam and the Licit Musics of the Arabian Peninsula**

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | 4-5:30pm

**Bradford Garvey**, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Brandeis University

Co-sponsors: Department of Music and CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/676355368)



 

##  Spring 2021 

   ![Spring 2021 Seminar Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/spring_2021_seminar_poster_v2.jpg?itok=he8uDjEL) 

 

**Beyond Centers and Peripheries: Islam and Asia**

Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 4-5:30pm

**Chiara Formichi**, Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University

Co-sponsor: Harvard University Asia Center

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/539268207)

**Rumi’s Ancestors on the Path of Radical Love (Mazhab-e ‘Eshq): Ahmad al-Ghazali and Kharaqani**

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | 4-5:30pm

**Omid Safi**, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

Co-sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, and Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/540340574)

**Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation**

Thursday, April 29, 2021 | 4-5:30pm

**Carl Sharif El-Tobgui**, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Brandeis University

Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/545070210)



 

##  Fall 2020 

   ![Fall 2020 seminars](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/aisp_fall_2020_seminar_2.jpg?itok=FS8uQUyy) 

 

**After the Canon: A History of Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission**

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | 4-5:30pm

**Garrett Davidson**, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Muslim World Studies, College of Charleston

Co-sponsor: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/490779180)

**The Prophet as a 'Sacred Spring': Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles**

Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 4-5:30pm

**Christiane Gruber**, Professor and Chair in the History of Art, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

Co-sponsors: Department of History of Art and Architecture and Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/477698329)

**Mobility, Power, and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire**

Tuesday, November 3, 2020 | 4-5:30pm

**Ahmed al-Rahim**, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia

Co-sponsor: Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

**Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib**

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 | 3-4:30pm

**Amira Bennison**, Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib, University of Cambridge

Co-sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, Department of History, and Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/505433576)



 

##  Spring 2020 

   ![Rethinking the History of Plague in the time of Cononavirus](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/aisp_plague_v4.jpg?itok=krJEwI59) 

 

**Wonderfull Edirne: A Marvelous Ottoman Town**  
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 12-1:30pm | CGIS South, Room S030 (Lee Gathering Room)

**Amy Singer**, Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies and Professor of History, Brandeis University

Co-sponsor: Department of History

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/424908482)

**Re-Thinking the History of Plague in the Time of Coronavirus**

Thursday, April 30, 2020 | 3-4:30pm | via Zoom

**Nükhet Varlık**, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University - Newark and the University of South Carolina

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/423827646)



 

##  Fall 2019 

   ![Fall 2019 Seminars](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/fall_2019_seminars.jpg?itok=HUXT7ehC) 

 

**Gender and Curriculum in the Islamic Studies Classroom**  
Thursday, September 26th | 4-5:30pm | William James Hall, 1550   
**Kecia Ali**, Professor of Religion, Boston University   
Co-sponsors: Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/365816588)  
  
**Anglo-Persian Texts and the Colonial Understanding of Religion**   
Thursday, October 24th | 4-5:30pm | William James Hall, 1550   
**Carl Ernst**, William R. Keenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
Co-sponsors: The Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/373423108)

**Early Shiite Law and the Construction of the Shari'a**  
Monday, November 25th | 1-2:30pm | Wasserstein Hall 3016  
**Robert Gleave**, Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter   
Co-sponsors: The Law and Religion Lecture Series (The Committee on Study of Religion, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish & Israeli Law at Harvard Law school, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School) and Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/382633348)



 

##  Spring 2019 

   ![grewal_poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/grewal_poster.jpg?itok=5Fja3-Hc) 

 

**The Quran in the American Imagination**

February 25, 2019 | 12:00-1:30pm | William James Hall 601  
**Zareena Grewal**, Associate Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, Yale University

Co-sponsors: The Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Department of Anthropology, the Program on American Studies, and the Committee on the Study of Religion

**City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries**  
March 28, 2019 | 3:00-4:30pm | CMES 102

**Roy Mottahedeh**, Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University

Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/327756831)

**Al-Ghazālī and the Epistemology of Legal Analogy (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law**  
Thursday, April 11, 2019 | 2:00-3:30pm | William James Hall 1550

**Felicitas Opwis**, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

Co-sponsor: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/334491067)

   ![Roy Mottahedeh Seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/mottahedeh_seminar.jpg?itok=BWAZ3m0c) 

 

**Race, Religion, and Revolution in Islamic West Africa since 1770**  
Thursday, May 2, 2019 | 1:00-2:30pm | Barker 114 (Kresge Foundation Room)

**Rudolph Ware**, Associate Professor of History, University of California in Santa Barbara

Co-sponsors: Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the Islam in Africa Lecture Series

[Watch the video](https://vimeo.com/336131028)



 

   ![Felicitas Opwis Qiyas](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/felicitas_opwis_qiyas_v2_002-page-001.jpg?itok=lAGk2BSa) 

 

   ![Rudolph Ware](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/rudolph_ware_seminar_poster.jpg?itok=DbJHbs9z) 

 



 

 



 

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