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March 2018
A Modern Islamic Perspective on Coexistence and Pluralism
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…
Find out more »Itinerant Objects: British Museum and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity
About the Lecturer Belgin Turan Özkaya is Professor of Architectural History at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
Find out more »Maimonides and Islam
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…
Find out more »April 2018
“A Modern Islamic Perspective on Coexistence and Pluralism” with Abdulrahman Al-Salimi
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…
Find out more »Kars: Russian Modernity on East Anatolia (1877-1917)
About the Lecturer Neşe Gurallar is Professor, Department of Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara, and a Harvard AKPIA Associate
Find out more »Imamology in Twelver-Shi’ite Islamic Thought
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…
Find out more »AVACGIS Visiting Scholar Presentations with Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande and Sami Erdem
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…
Find out more »June 2018
The Army, the Economy, and Discontent in Egypt
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…
Find out more »Sasanian Sacred Iconography after the Sasanians
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…
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