Commerce Building, Room 3006
4087 University Drive, Fairfax, VA, United States
Brown Bag Lecture by Akin Kiren, Dissertation Fellow, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies: Iranians had probably constituted the largest group of foreign subjects in the Ottoman Empire since its establishment in the...
The HUB (SUB II), Meeting Room 1
4400 Rivanna River Way, Fairfax, VA, United States
Fethullah Gulen and his vast network of followers and institutions have played a key role in Turkish politics over the last decade. With the July 15 coup attempt last summer, he has become a subject...
Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington D.C., United States
Date Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 12 pm Details Discover the religious and historical importance of the exceptional manuscripts on view in the exhibition The Art of the Qur’an in this gallery talk by Jonathan Brown, associate professor of Islamic...
Georgetown University
3700 O Street, NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Oxford’s Advanced Learners Dictionary gives the following two primary definitions of the term ‘visionary:’ (1). original and showing the ability to think about or plan the future with great imagination and intelligence -a visionary leader-...
America's Islamic Heritage Museum
2315 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE, Washington D.C., DC, United States
With 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...
Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington D.C., United States
Did 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...
Commerce Building, Room 3006
4087 University Drive, Fairfax, VA, United States
Visiting 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...
Mullen Library, The May Gallery
620 Michigan Avenue NE, Washington, DC, United States
The 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...