The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
IIIT Library 500 Grove Street, Suite 200, Herndon, VA, United StatesLecture led by Mustafa Akyol.
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Conversation: “Islam in Washington: Then and Now”
Sackler Gallery 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington D.C., United StatesDid you know that Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, owned a translation of the Qur'an? That the first Muslims in the DC area arrived as slaves in the early 1600s? Or...
“The Historical Development of Shi’ite Political Thought” with Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi
Commerce Building, Room 3006 4087 University Drive, Fairfax, VA, United StatesVisiting Scholar Brown Bag Series Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM Commerce Building, Room 3006 Shi’ite political thought has gone through deep changes in history. In this talk, a general overview of...
“Anyone who sows discord between Muslim, Christian and Jew is not an Arab”: Baghdad College and Pluralism in Modern Iraq
Mullen Library, The May Gallery 620 Michigan Avenue NE, Washington, DC, United StatesThe Institute for Christian Oriental Research (ICOR), The School of Arts and Sciences and The School of Theology and Religious Studies invites all to the lecture, "Anyone who sows discord between Muslim, Christian and Jew...
Understanding the History of Muslims in America
America's Islamic Heritage Museum 2315 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE, Washington D.C., DC, United StatesWith Historian and Curator Amir Muhammad. The presentation will look at early history and contributions of Muslims in America from pre-Columbus, the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s and Muslims in Service of Our Country today. It...
“The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition, 13th-20th Century”
Edward B. Bunn S.J. Intercultural Center, Room 241 Washington, DC, United StatesIslamic Studies Lecture Series: Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton "Preserving, Democratizing, and Studying the World Heritage of Islamic Manuscripts: The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition"
Radicalizations and Moderations among Muslim Political Actors
IIIT Library 500 Grove Street, Suite 200, Herndon, VA, United StatesLecture led by Kamran Bokhari.
“The Ambivalence of Islam in U.S. Foreign Policy”
Research Hall, Room 163 10401 York River Road, Fairfax, VA, United StatesLecture by Dr. Peter Mandaville Reflecting on his three years working at the State Department during the Obama administration, Dr. Mandaville will discuss the complex and at times contradictory approaches to Islam and Muslims that...
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Islamophobia Across the Atlantic: Trump, Europe’s Far Right, and the Place of Civil Society
Hearst Field Annex, A1 2545-2581 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDr. Farid Hafez, Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project This talk discusses the emergence of Islamophobia in Europe and the USA and its specific role in party politics. It discusses the announcement and introduction of Trump's...
Al-Alwani Event for Muslim-Christian Dialogue
The El-Hibri Foundation 1420 16th Street NW, Washington D.C., DC, United StatesThis annual event is named in honor of Taha Al-Alwani, a leading scholar of Islamic law and philosophy, who passed away last year.This year’s event features two renowned scholars who will address the issue of:...
Moving Beyond “Us vs. Them:” Teaching about Islam in Tumultous Times, Part IV
Welles Hall, Room 123 College Circle, Geneseo, NY, United StatesRegistration requested. Dr. Megan Abbas, Geneseo History professor, will be the speaker for this seminar. According to many political and media sources, the West and the Islamic World are currently engaged in a global confrontation over...
Speaker Series: Encountering the Divine through His Most Beautiful Names in Islamic Contemplative Practice
Wilson Hall, Room 301 Charlottesville, VA, United StatesRegistration requested. Please join Prof. Maria Dakake for a public talk entitled "Encountering the Divine through His Most Beautiful Names in Islamic Contemplative Practice". This talk will examine contemplative practices related to the names of...
Confronting Islamophobia Speaker Series: “American Muslims Under Surveillance”
Reginald F. Lewis Museum 830 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesRegistration requested. About the Lecture At this moment in our nation’s history, there is an unprecedented need for interreligious education and engagement around Islam. In the second lecture in this series, Engy Abdelkader will examine...
“Qur’anic Exegesis and Mystical Experience: Sufis and the Qur’an”
Minor Hall, Room 125 Charlottesville, VA, United StatesRegistration requested. Already during the first two centuries of Islam Muslim ascetics-mystics (Sufis) used Qur'anic recitation as a means to extract its exoteric, allegorical senses. This exoteric reading of the Scripture would often result in...
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
IIIT Library 500 Grove Street, Suite 200, Herndon, VA, United StatesLecture led by Noah Salomon.
“Aesthetics and the Cenotaphic in Medieval Iberian Culture”
Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 318 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker Enass Khansa is a Harvard AKPIA Associate; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University; The Santiago Cathedral Project (Spain) Website.
Rethinking Muslim Ethics: Tensions and Dilemmas
Storm Hall West, Room 011 San Diego, CA, United StatesEvent 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?
“When Mystic Masters Meet: Toward a New Matrix for Christian-Muslim Dialogue” with Syafaatun Almirzanah
Johnson Center, Room E 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesThis 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...
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion
IIIT Library 500 Grove Street, Suite 200, Herndon, VA, United StatesLecture led by Elizabeth Hurd.
Confronting Islamophobia Speaker Series: “Combating Islamophobia”
Reginald F. Lewis Museum 830 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesRegistration 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...
Contextualizing History Writing in the Ottoman and Indian Worlds (C.1400-1850)
Istanbul Bilgi University Santral Istanbul Campus Kazım Karabekir Cad. No: 2/13, Istanbul, Eyüp İstanbul, Turkeyİstanbul 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...
Islam in the Russian Domain: History, Threats, and Containment
The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th St. NW, Washington, DC, United StatesRegistration 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...
Designating Muslims: Islam in American Governmentality
Johnson Center, Room D 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesAbout 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...
“The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History” with Cemil Aydin
Johnson Center, Room F 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesAbout 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...
“Law, Dynasty, and Islam in Arab Monarchies, 1860s-1930s”
Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240 2204 Erwin Rd., Durham, NC, United StatesAbout 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...
“The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions” with Lena Salaymeh
Edward B. Bunn S.J. Intercultural Center, Room 270 Washington, DC, United StatesAbout 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...
Islamic Law and Qajar Society
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street, New York, NY, United StatesA 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...
“Surviving Statelessness: Everyday Life and the Politics of Living among Gaza Refugees in Jordan”
Johnson Center, Room B 4477 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, VA, United StatesAbout 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....
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...