Event website. Dr. Ibrahim Moosa is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, and What Is a Madrasa?
This book is a study of the role mystical discourse and experience can play in Christian-Muslim dialogue as a subset of interfaith dialogue in general. It concentrates on the work of two great medieval mystic...
Lecture led by Elizabeth Hurd.
Registration requested. About the Lecture At this moment in our nation’s history, there is an unprecedented need for interreligious education and engagement around Islam. Much of the fear-mongering around Muslims is grounded in a deep...
İstanbul Bilgi University will be holding a conference on the theme of "Contextualizing History Writing in the Ottoman and Indian Worlds (C.1400-1850)" on June 10th-11th at its İstanbul campus. The conference is organized by İstanbul Bilgi...
Registration requested. About the Lecture Erik Khzmalyan will discuss Russia's interaction with Islam during the Tsarist and Soviet periods, Islam after communism, the radicalization of Muslim populations, and Russia's fear of pan-Islamic movements. About the...
About the Lecture We are pleased to announce you that our colloquium series will continue with our speaker Dr.Peter Mandaville. His talk "Designating Muslims: Islam in American Governmentality" will explore the various ways in which Muslims have come...
About the Book When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global...
About the Lecture This talk focuses on the legal codification of dynasties in Arab monarchies between the 1860s and 1930s. In a sweeping survey, it compares how the succession order and the members of the...
About the Lecture The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is...
A lecture by Nobuaki Kondo, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies The Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU (ISI-NYU) provides an intellectual and academic space for NYU faculty members and graduate students to study Iranian history, culture and...
About the Lecturer Michael Vicente Pérez is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on refugees and displacement, nationhood and citizenship, precarity, and everyday life. Dr....
An Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Lecture by Dr. Tony Street (University of Cambridge)
About 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)...
About the Lecturer Mounia Chekhab Abudaya is the Curator for Manuscripts and Western Mediterranean Collections, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
About 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,...
About the Lecturer Rocco Rante is an Archaeologist with the Department of Islamic Art, Louvre Museum
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...
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...
About the Lecturer Belgin Turan Özkaya is Professor of Architectural History at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
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...
About 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...
About the Lecturer Neşe Gurallar is Professor, Department of Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
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...
Join 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...
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...
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...
