IIIT Summer Student Program 2018
The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is pleased to announce its 2018 Summer Student Program (SSP), which will be held in the period of June 25 – July 31, 2018. SSP is an intensive,...
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“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...
April 7 & 14, 2018-Arabic Calligraphy Workshop with Pablo Khalid Casado
Diyanet Center of America 9704 Good Luck Road, Lanham, MD, United StatesExperience the beauty of Arabic thuluth style script with our visiting master calligrapher Pablo Casado from Spain. Classes will be held over two Saturdays, April 7 & April 14 at Diyanet Center of America from...
“What is Islam?: Conventional Views and Contemporary Perspectives” Conference
Research Hall, Room 163 10401 York River Road, Fairfax, VA, United StatesResearch Hall, Room 163 In the two years since its publication, the late Shahab Ahmed’s inquiry into What is Islam? has generated much needed debate across multiple fields related to the study of Islam. His erudite proposal...
“Racism, Racialization, and African-American Islam in the Americas” Conference
Johnson Center, George's (3rd Floor above JC Library) In the last two decades, a renewed interest in African Muslims’ forced and voluntary journeys into American continent produced a number of noteworthy publications. Combined with an...
Islam in Africa Brown Bag Lecture Series
Harvard Divinity School Andover Hall 103, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThe Future of Political Islam: Trends and Prospects
Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, the progression of events in the Middle East has provoked new questions on the role of political Islam in the region. The Arab Spring offered Islamist parties the opportunity and...
‘The Past, Present and Future of Shīʿī Ijtihād’
60 Weoley Park Road B29 6RB Birmingham, United KingdomCALL FOR PAPERS The 6th annual AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop on; ‘The Past, Present and Future of Shīʿī Ijtihād’ To be held 5th - 6th July 2018 at Al-Mahdi Institute The relatively recent Shīʿī migration to...
AVACGIS 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...
What Next? States, Conflicts, and Policy in the Middle East
Founders Hall, Room 113 3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, United StatesRegister/RSVP at meis@gmu.edu Symposium Schedule 12:00 pm Welcome Remarks by Dean Mark Rozell, Jack Goldstone, Bassam Haddad Moderated by Justin Gest and Nadya Sbaiti 12:05 - 1:15 Panel 1: Ongoing Conflicts in the Middle East...
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of ChicagoCall for Proposals We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle East from the sixth century c.e. to the present day, including but not limited...
World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean
National Museum of African Art 950 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, United StatesAbout the Exhibit Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the Swahili coast has been a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence for over one millennium. For centuries, peoples from the Arabian...
Summer School of Kurdish Studies
University of Chicago 5828 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL, United StatesSponsored by Zahra Institute May 25-29, 2018 Venue: University of Chicago, Cobb Lecture Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL www.zahrainstitute.org Students and professionals interested in Kurdish language and culture are invited to participate in...
Political Theory and the Question of Religion
Politics, School of Social Sciences Arthur Lewis Building, Oxford Road M13, Manchester, United KingdomConvenor: Zubair Ahmad, BGSMCS, Freie Universität Contact: zubair@zedat.fu-berlin.de In her recently published book, Liberalism’s Religion (2017), political and legal theorist Cécile Laborde reflects on the “foundational issues about the place of religion in liberal political theory.” In...
OSMANLI’DA İLM-İ TEFSİR SEMPOZYUMU
Istanbul, TurkeyOttoman Tafsīr: Scholars, Works, Problems The established understanding dominant in academic studies on Islamic culture and civilization is based on the assumption that Islamic thought had lost its productivity since the Middle Ages. As a...
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...
Call for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference
Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University , TurkeyCall for papers: 4th China and The Middle East Conference: China and West Asia: Economic Development; and Social and Political Cooperation Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University Cappadocia - TURKEY June 20-22, 2018 Organized by Nevsehir...
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...
Approaches to Islamic Studies in North American Universities
Summer Institute for Scholars - 2018 Call for Papers Approaches to Islamic Studies in North American Universities July 11-13, 2018 Herndon, Virginia Background In 2012, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) published Observing the Observer:...
World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
Rectorate of the University of Seville Calle San Fernando, 4, Seville, SpainThe Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation welcomes the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018, serving as a meeting point to present, debate...
CfP: Sharia and the Secular
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProposals should be sent to isgsc@cmes.ucsb.edu and must be received by July 30, 2018 About the Conference The SoCal Islamic Studies Graduate Student Consortium invites papers exploring the theme of “Sharia and the Secular.” Does Sharia rule Muslims’...
URD Intensive Course on Shia Studies
Introduction The University of Religions and Denominations with its experience of organizing six intensive international courses on Shia Studies in Iran (Qom) and attracting more than a hundred participants from 42 countries, is organizing the first Shia Studies...
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Conceptualizing Sectarianization
University of BernAbout the Conference Conceptualizing Sectarianization: Perspectives on the Dynamics of Ethno-Religious Difference in Studying the Middle East and North Africa Demarcating a given community on the basis of its confessional identity or religious denomination has...
Muslim Women’s Religious Leadership and Authority in Europe and North America
CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline is 03 April 2018) The rise of female Islamic scholarship and leadership in the non-Muslim world is a relatively recent phenomenon that is garnering increasing public attention. Growing opportunities for women...
Impact of Emerging Digital Technology and Social Media on Muslim Communities
CALL FOR PAPERS 47th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS) “Impact of Emerging Digital Technology and Social Media on Muslim Communities” Cosponsored By:Middle East and Middle Eastern American...
2018 Symposium on Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society Education and Muslim Societies Track
Indianapolis, Indiana , United StatesThe Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University invites scholarly papers for a track on education in Muslim societies at its second Symposium on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society...
The Reach of Empire – The Early Islamic Empire at Work
Universität HamburgAbout the Conference As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference shall invite participants to examine the reach...
Muslim Minorities and the Refugee Crisis in Europe: Narratives and Policy Responses
An international conference organised by the Middle East and Central Asia Unit and the Department of Political Studies, Warsaw School of Economics The recent refugee crisis started by the ongoing war in Syria caught Europeans...