An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Lecture

Occupational Risks: Israel in the West Bank

Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 505 1957 E St NW, Washington, DC, United States

About the Lecture This talk raises the two burning questions in this 50th anniversary of the 1967 War. First, “Is the presence of Israel’s military and settlers in the West Bank an occupation?” An answer...

A Modern Islamic Perspective on Coexistence and Pluralism

Johnson Center, Room E 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United States

About the Speaker Dr. Abdulrahman al-Salimi is currently a Patricia Crone Member of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study working on early Islamic sources. He is currently editing and studying Ibadi texts of the eighth...

Maimonides and Islam

Johnson Center, Room B 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United States

About the Author Dr. David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of Religion and Philosophy in the University of Toronto, where he is a member of University...

Kars: Russian Modernity on East Anatolia (1877-1917)

Real Colegio Complutense 26 Trowbridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

About the Lecturer Neşe Gurallar is Professor, Department of Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate

Imamology in Twelver-Shi’ite Islamic Thought

Hartford Seminary 77 Sherman St., Hartford, CT, United States

Who is the Imam and what is his role in the worldview of Twelver-Shiʿite Muslims? Hadi Qazwini, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California, will present an overview of the multifaceted doctrine of Imamology in...

The Army, the Economy, and Discontent in Egypt

Merten Hall, Room 1203 4441 George Mason Blvd, Fairfax, VA, United States

About the Lecture From a political economy approach, this talk follows how Egypt’s military institution has been visibly, or often invisibly, controlling the economy and state in the past three decades. Uniquely in its regional...

Sasanian Sacred Iconography after the Sasanians

University of York

About the Lecture How are we to understand motifs created after the Islamic conquest that refer to Sasanian sacred iconography? Images with Zoroastrian connotations were commissioned and used by non-Zoroastrians in the centuries immediately after...