On behalf of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project at Columbia University, we would like to invite to attend our two-day workshop (Feb. 16-17) on our collections held at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML)...
Intensive Courses Intensive Course on Arabic Papyrology Princeton, New Jersey (USA) August 21-25, 2017 Thanks to a number of generous grants from the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project, the Near Eastern Studies Department at...
Registration requested. Description Learn how to interact with Muslims in America to ensure comfort and to convey solidarity. This dynamic diversity training will provide the insight and resources necessary to be an ally. We will...
Ticketed Event. Description This session will guide participants to become a successful ASL interpreter in Muslim settings. Participants will gain knowledge and understanding with the language and customs involved. They will learn about Islamic signs...
This workshop gathers scholars who are interested in the myriad recent critiques of secularism spanning a variety of academic fields: history, political science, anthropology, comparative literature, etc. Our aim is to discuss the various motives...
Speakers include: * Tuna Artun (Rutgers) * Nahyan Fancy (DePauw) * Paula Findlen (Stanford) * Noah Gardiner (U South Carolina) * Harun Kucuk (University of Pennsylvania) * Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U South Carolina) * Robert Morrison...
Ticket required. About Discover the Qalam (Arabic wooden pen) and let it take you on a journey to learn how to write in Eastern Kufic Calligraphy on Manuscripts together with well-established calligrapher Vahid Jazayeri with...
Event website. The number of mosques in Denmark is rising steadily. The number has increased by almost 50 per cent since 2006 and many things indicate that quite substantial changes have taken place in the...
The 5th annual fiqhī workshop at Al-Mahdi Institute aims to facilitate scholarship directly addressing questions relating to the topic of “violence in Sharī ͑a andits contemporary implications”. The Muslim juristic fiqhī discourse has been framed...
Event Website Registration Required About the Workshop Join us for an exploratory and informal workshop to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and...
2017 Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle East Studies October 12, 2017 The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University is pleased to announce the program of the 2017 Book...