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November 2017
“Law, Dynasty, and Islam in Arab Monarchies, 1860s-1930s”
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…
Find out more »“The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions” with Lena Salaymeh
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…
Find out more »December 2017
Islamic Law and Qajar Society
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…
Find out more »January 2018
“Surviving Statelessness: Everyday Life and the Politics of Living among Gaza Refugees in Jordan”
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.…
Find out more »Reckoning and Recounting: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Philisophical and Quranic Commentaries
An Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Lecture by Dr. Tony Street (University of Cambridge)
Find out more »February 2018
“The Study of Manuscripts and its Importance for Research on Islamic Literature and Culture” with Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley
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)…
Find out more »Ottoman Devotional Manuscripts: Study of a Corpus from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
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
Find out more »Unpacking the Muslim Bans with Shoba Wadhia
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,…
Find out more »March 2018
Evolution of Settlements and Socio-Economic Features in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and Medieval period
About the Lecturer Rocco Rante is an Archaeologist with the Department of Islamic Art, Louvre Museum
Find out more »Occupational Risks: Israel in the West Bank
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…
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