Reckoning and Recounting: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Philisophical and Quranic Commentaries
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 141An Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Lecture by Dr. Tony Street (University of Cambridge)
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“The Study of Manuscripts and its Importance for Research on Islamic Literature and Culture” with Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley
Johnson Center, Room C 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesAbout the Lecturer Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley worked for 45 years as Curator for Persian and Turkish, initially at the British Museum and then at the British Library, London. His main research specializations are (i)...
Ottoman Devotional Manuscripts: Study of a Corpus from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Real Colegio Complutense 26 Trowbridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAbout the Lecturer Mounia Chekhab Abudaya is the Curator for Manuscripts and Western Mediterranean Collections, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
Unpacking the Muslim Bans with Shoba Wadhia
Leavey Program Room, Georgetown University 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington, DC, United StatesAbout the Lecture "Unpacking the Muslim Bans: A Conversation on Islamophobia in the Courts and the Administration" The Bridge Initiative is excited to co-sponsor with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and GU Law’s Office of Equity,...
Evolution of Settlements and Socio-Economic Features in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and Medieval period
Real Colegio Complutense 26 Trowbridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAbout the Lecturer Rocco Rante is an Archaeologist with the Department of Islamic Art, Louvre Museum
Occupational Risks: Israel in the West Bank
Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 505 1957 E St NW, Washington, DC, United StatesAbout 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 StatesAbout 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...
Itinerant Objects: British Museum and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity
Real Colegio Complutense 26 Trowbridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAbout the Lecturer Belgin Turan Özkaya is Professor of Architectural History at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
Maimonides and Islam
Johnson Center, Room B 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesAbout 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...
“A Modern Islamic Perspective on Coexistence and Pluralism” with Abdulrahman Al-Salimi
Johnson Center, Room B 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesAbout the Lecturer 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...
Kars: Russian Modernity on East Anatolia (1877-1917)
Real Colegio Complutense 26 Trowbridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAbout 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 StatesWho 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...
Islam in Africa Brown Bag Lecture Series
Harvard Divinity School Andover Hall 103, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesAVACGIS Visiting Scholar Presentations with Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande and Sami Erdem
Johnson Center, Room G 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesJoin us for a brown bag lunch as we close the semester with presentations by two of our current Visiting Scholars Ms. Raissa Von Doetinchem de Rand (Princeton University) "Greek Thought and the Limits...
The Army, the Economy, and Discontent in Egypt
Merten Hall, Room 1203 4441 George Mason Blvd, Fairfax, VA, United StatesAbout 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 YorkAbout 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...