After reviewing many excellent theses, the Selection Committee is pleased to announce Waseem Sari Nabulsi as winner of the 2023 Alwaleed Bin Talal Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies for his thesis entitled, "Magic...
This course will survey core concepts of Islamic law (sharia) in historical and comparative modern contexts. Popular perceptions of this legal system imagine it to be a static code from 7th-century Arabia. Islamic law is in...
Since the fifteenth century, individuals and societies in different parts of the world adopted a gradually but unmistakably quickening tempo in their everyday lives and started to make more uses of the nighttime –for socializing, for entertainment, and for...
This conference course takes the history of Syria over the longue duree as its object of study. Spanning Syria?s political history from the genesis of Islam to the foundation of Syria as a modern nation state, the course additionally focuses on four broader themes: 1) Umayyad Syria at the genesis... Read more about Syria: History, Politics, and Religion
On October 24, 2017, The Ash Center for Democratic Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program co-sponsored a cross-disciplinary panel discussion on the intersection of Islam and democracy across the Muslim world as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard. Convened by Professor Tarek Masoud, the panel of experts...